AA among its peers
Kent Paul Dolan
brainwashing, AA has "a certain reputation":
Have you ever tried saying to a friend, "I feel
lonely?" Unless they're in some kind of cult
(AA, the Manson family, Scientology etc), in
which case they leap upon your fragile state and
inculcate you into their insane 'family', this
phrase is usually met with a brisk brush off
[...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20091214/cm_huffpost/390545
I wonder, based on local evidence, what might make
folks think AA participants and supporters are all
whackjobs?
Could it be the constant posting of anagrams in a
newsgroup where they are off topic and unwelcome?
Could it be the constant violations of intellectual
property laws by posting whole newspaper articles
without permission?
Could it be the vicious crosspostings among
unrelated newsgroups designed only to stir up
trouble and increase the noise level in all the
targeted groups?
Could it be the megalomaniacal plans to overthrow
good medical practice in favor of fomenting plagues,
pain, suffering and death?
Could it be the insane insistence on using death
increases rather than free-to-the-user-contraceptive
mediated birth reductions to control overpopulation?
Could it be hundredfold repetitions of identical
posting addenda to unrelated messages being followed
up?
Could it be the posting of hideously boring
shovelware postings off topic in each group where
they appear?
Could it be Usenet stalking behavior?
Or could it be the astonishingly improbable
combination of all of the above brain burned moonbat
character flaws in a single individual?
Inquiring minds want to know.
xanthian.
nikolai kingsley
> Or could it be the astonishingly improbable
> combination of all of the above brain burned moonbat
> character flaws in a single individual?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.
at the end of "Cugel's Saga", the protagonist, having fought against
Ioucounu the Laughing Magician tirelessly, has defeated him. he sits in
the wizard's former dining room with his friends, toasting the memory of
their fallen adversary.
one of them asks Cugel, "what now?"
Cugel had no idea.
I.N. Galidakis
[snip]
> at the end of "Cugel's Saga", the protagonist, having fought against
> Ioucounu the Laughing Magician tirelessly,...
Sounds like a nickname for me.
Ioannis, Ioanounou, Ioucounu, Ioannakis, Ioannakin.
[snip]
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Ioannis
nikolai kingsley
>> at the end of "Cugel's Saga", the protagonist, having fought against
>> Ioucounu the Laughing Magician tirelessly,...
>
> Sounds like a nickname for me.
>
> Ioannis, Ioanounou, Ioucounu, Ioannakis, Ioannakin.
i hadn't intended it as such. Ioucounu isn't such a sympathetic
character, really. also, i spelled it wrong.