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Re: Will someone please start a flamewar about Derek Smart?

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From: Bill Huffman
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57
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"JustBoo" <JustBoo@BooWho.com> wrote in message 
news:c3ek62t3i53arpm6pv0r21thq9q7apvjqq@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 12:34:30 GMT, "Bill Huffman" <bhuffma1@san.rr.com>
> wrote:
>>"Lemming" <thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:bk5i62du01f09ttpqppc26q0qhsscb01pe@4ax.com...
>>> I'm getting paranoid that I might have accidentally mixed some
>>> asbestos in with my DDT and I need something to take my mind off it.
>>
>>I didn't think it was possible but the flamewar has been won by the forces
>>of truth. I know you're saying "Bill, you stupid piece of crap, a flamewar
>>can't be won, it can only be lost." Well, you're right, Lemming, I am a
>>stupid piece of crap. However, you are forgetting the statute of 
>>limitations
>>rule. That rule says that if one party in the flamewar remains in the lost
>>state for at least 100 consecutive months then the other side can declare
>>victory. Since the statute of limitations is well expired, I hereby 
>>declare
>>the flamewar won.
>>
>>BTW Lemming, nice try in calling me a stupid piece of crap but, you should
>>know by know that I only engage in flamewars when the truth is being
>>maligned.
>
> Wow. This actually brought me out of my "whole."
>
> So here I stand, by sheer happenstance and wild probability, to
> witness: THE END. Like seeing the "one ring to rule them all" that's
> been throw into the fires of Hades... it's over. All the years of bile
> and buffoonery. Over.
>
> Umm, irrevocably over. Right? Never to return, over. Right? I mean
> over, over. Right? I mean dead as a Parrot that was nailed to his
> perch in a Cheese Shop dead... over, kinda' thingy. Right?
>
> Well. Good then... what's for lunch?
>
> "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore
> like an idiot." - sw

It is finally over, except perhaps for a bit of name calling. 
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