Re: JSH: Use ratings

in article <zemdnsmvdbic_prynz2dnuvz_s-dnz2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
tim peters <tim.one@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|[Tim Peters]
|> |I had an ArchiePu addiction in the late 80's / early 90's, but
|> |much milder than yours. Still, it was persistent. Then I was off
|> |Usenet for nearly a decade. Upon returning, I was amazed, and
|> |genuinely pleased, to see him still posting. However, despite
|> |that I got along with him much better than with JSH (which is
|> |surprising in its own right, since James has /some/ sense of
|> |humor), the itch to respond never returned.
|
|[James Dolan]
|> it's somewhat strange if you claim to have paid attention to
|> archimedes plutonium but don't know about the times that he's shown
|> a sense of humor.
|
|Oh, on /first/ sight I thought everything he said was funny. IIRC,
|it took more than a year before I came to believe that, one by one,
|all the things I assumed at first were running jokes weren't
|/intended/ to be funny.

like i said, it's somewhat strange if you guys claim to have paid
attention to him but don't know about the times that he's shown a
sense of humor, or about the times when he's explained why he tries
not to show it anymore.


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