Article 15195 of rec.arts.sf.fandom:
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: 1995 DISCLAVE
Date: 26 Jun 1995 16:44:35 GMT
Organization: Navy Center for Artificial Intelligence
In-reply-to: drgafia@aol.com's message of 25 Jun 1995 10:31:09 -0400

drgafia@aol.com (Dr Gafia) coughs up:

A noisome dog's breakfast of nearly unreadable and occasionally
abusive prose.

I won't attempt to quote it--he'll just reformat it into something
even more bizarre, uncomprehended, and incomprehensible--but I should
correct a few of the misconceptions he promulgated in his message:

-> The Promise-Keepers are a right-wing fundamentalist Christian group
   who were sharing the hotel with Disclave.  My point, in case anyone
   other than the Gafioid misunderstood it, was:

    _If_ the Promise-Keepers knew the dog collar and leash were
    intended to indicate a sado-masochistic relationship,

    _then_ they would have objected to such themes being
    flaunted in public in their midst,

    but I _don't_ think think the Promise-Keepers noticed the symbolism,

    so I _don't_ think they minded,

    so I _don't_ think they will complain to the hotel,

    in which case, _I_ don't mind.

   Now, Rich will possibly notice that that's roughly what he suggested
   in his response to me.  If so, he's finally understood it.

-> The part of my post I said "he should have read" was quoted in the
   message he read, and even quoted in the message he posted, so his
   claim he saw only the response to my post is a transparent excuse
   for not reading what's in front of his face.

-> In my correction, I did not in any case issue a "more complete"
   quotation (as he claims twice, once in quotes, as if I'd made such
   a claim, which I didn't), I merely restored the formatting of the
   material he quoted, removing the spurious line breaks and glyphs he
   inserted when quoting.  Really, I can't tell whether he's trying to
   be the next e e cummings or if he's bucking for the crudzine Hogu.

Dan Hoey                                Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
Chair, Disclave '95