Making Light:  Taking your own bad advice ::: June 25, 2004, 07:03 PM

Mary Anne:

  I really don't want to read over the whole thread of responses to find
  the ones that seem inappropriate; it was more a matter of tone than
  anything else...

Well, I don't much feel like reading them over either, and while I
remember some mock-making, there was certainly a lot of well-deserved
criticism there.  And eventually everyone had enough and it died out.

But then the Toddster dropped by, and started telling us that his
advice (which he rewrote before he quoted it) wasn't as stupid and
evil as it had been, and that we were a bunch of meanyheads for making
mock of him, and that we're all Tor toadies, and that he's going to
law-sue someone.  Oh, and he sent his sock-puppet over to make sure
we got the message.

Wednesday night's antics reanimated the farce, with nearly as much
new mock fuel as the original idiocy.  You might as well forget about
trying to slow it down--you're about a week too early for that.  Just
remember who came clowning off in the deep end without his water wings.

So Pants-on-fire Pierce has three choices.  He can come back and mouth
off some more, and see how inventive we can get, or how long before
Teresa pulls the plug on the slugfest.  He can crawl back under
his rock and wait for us to get tired, and eventually we all will
get tired and move on.  Or perhaps he might actually learn how to
apologize, and if he comes off looking human, things might cool down
a bit sooner, and someone might actually have some respect for him.

I suspect he hasn't found the bottom of his character yet, but I'd
be glad to be wrong.