Please Relax was: And don't let the door hit you on the way out

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Christopher Svanefalk <
christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Ed Gurski <ed at gurski.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Not to worry.  Just as soon as you stop talking about me, I'll
>> > disappear.  If you want to refer to someone by their last name, it is
>> > customary to use the appropriate honorific, the last name by itself
>> > being taken as rude.  In my case, the appropriate honorific would be
>> > Dr.  So address me or refer to me as Robert or Dr. Myers, not Myers or
>> > Mr. Myers.  That people on this list would talk about manners almost
>> > makes my heart stop.
>> >
>> > If you don't know how to use the reflexive properly ("someone like
>> > myself" is incorrect usage in multiple ways), avoid it.  Otherwise,
>> > you might sound like Marilyn Monroe referring to "a nice girl like I,"
>> > which is what you do sound like.
>> >
>> > Finally, if you don't want to read what I say, don't read it.  Just
>> > stop talking about it.
>> >
>> > Robert Myers.
>> >
>>
>> Heil Doctor Art Brush -- That's what you used to be known as. Doctor of
>> WHAT? Time has not changed you in the least! You're still as arrogant as
>> you've always been --- bullying your way around and then whinnying that
>> people have no respect and are Luddites...
>>
>> You must be a very lonely man without friends and in 20 years you'll be
>> an old decrepit man watching the paint dry!!
>>
>> Just leave us all alone -- we know all about you now so LEAVE!!!
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ed Gurski
>> (ed at gurski.com)
>> Registered Linux User 458454
>>
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>
> I think people just seriously have to chill out in this thread, what is
> with all the ill wishes and bitterness? If you think someone is being
> intentionally inflammatory, then do not fuel the fire by responding. This
> thread and its originator are both out of place and needless.
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Christopher Svanefalk
>
>
By originator I mean the thread that spawned this one, not the original
poster.

-- 
Best,

Christopher Svanefalk
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