My first week with you was brutal! I now know that male road rage is not limited to cement spaces but also cyber spaces. That is okay...now I know the rules...that's all I need to survive. There was actually some decent dialogue in between the flame throwers and grenade launchers! May I offer the following rules of engagement for this upcoming week: 1)may civility and decency not be a lost art, 2)don't waste energy food fighting we may need all that food someday, 3)can we talk about something that can be quantified like "how many computer experts can stand on the end of a pin"-the theoretical does not seem to matter much-reality either way is 8 mon. away. "walleymar"

-- Mark Howard (walleyemar@aol.com), April 26, 1999

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Glad you survived the first week. Don't worry about civility to much, it adds flavor to the forum. We all can sling it and take it. Good Luck!

-- SCOTTY (BLehman202@aol.com), April 26, 1999.

You think this is bad?

Head on over to csy2k - baseball bats, napalm, uzis, chain mail, hate mail are the order of the day.

We are a bunch of pussycats in comparison :)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), April 26, 1999.

As Gilda said on the other, clearly accidental thread, "Welcome to the Battle Room of Ender's Game"

this pretty much describes us. with the same function, which is to prepare us for the next level of .....

Chuck

-- chuck, a Night Driver (rienzoo@en.com), April 26, 1999.

MALE road rage!!!what sexism,obviously you've never been cut off/run off the road by one of those I-drive-an-S.U.V.-so-I-have-power-soccer- moms;a menace to everyone. DRIVING IS NOT THERAPY!!!GET A SHRINK!!SAVE A LIFE!!!

-- zoobie (zoob@aol.com), April 26, 1999.

the stong will survive for the good of the whole,if this forum tears you up,what will you do after y2k when your pollyanna/naysayer neighbor(or cousin)who made no preparations wants your food?the constant hassles I get from my pollyanna aquaintences are getting to be quite effectinve in hardening my heart to their fucture suffering,we can't feed them all...

-- zoobie (zoob@aol.com), April 26, 1999.

Good morning Mark,

Glad you survived the experience. Check the archive, it's not only us chipsters that go at it! However, once you look past the BS, there is much to be learned here.

I didn't forget my promise to post my opinion on Beach. I had hoped to have it done this weekend, but my house mates forced me into a massive spring cleaning campaing, among other things. I'll have it done in a day or so, I hope! That should stir things up again. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), April 26, 1999.

Welcome to the war there is no neutral ground. Welcome to the war no escape can be found.In eight months we will all know! Tman

-- Tman (Tman@IBAgeek.com), April 26, 1999.

... but my house mates forced me into a massive spring cleaning campaing... -- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), April 26, 1999.

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"house mates?" As in "fraternity house" or "halfway house"? Inquiring minds want to know.

-- who do that voodoo (thatyoudo@so.well), April 27, 1999.

"Welcome to the Battle Room of Ender's Game"

Yeow! What a metaphor...

As I recall, the winner in "Ender's Game" unwittingly exterminated a sentient and sapient species save for one individual, and struggled with the guilt thereof for many years afterward.

Surely that's not what we're about here. We've got a deal of nitpicking , irrelevance, contumacy, recalcitrance, truculence, petulance and ignorance -- all representative of our tribe, I admit -- but I've noticed some saving graces too.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), April 27, 1999.

who do that voodoo,

Speak for yourself. I share the rent with 2 other guys on a big old farm house, that sits on a 155 acre farm. It's going to be a real nice place to be if Y2K hits the fan, unlike the asylum that you are apparently in. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), April 27, 1999.