Cletus D. Lee wrote in message ET...

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PT, Thank you for demonstrating exactly what I was talking about. Al

About a year ago (Date: 2002-12-02 12:19:15 PST), I made an early New
Years Resolution to not participate in OT inflammatory posts.

http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&l...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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For the most part, I have kept that promise. At the time I made my
resolution, I invited others to join me. IIRC, I got few takers. By
tolerating others irreverent, obscene and bigoted comments, has brought
this NG full circle. Good posters are leaving and what we have left
floating at the top of the cream pitcher are a few turds.

Maybe people like Al and Bryan will drift back, maybe not. Perhaps
others just as valued will come on board and replace these. I hope both
happen. Without quality, this group will atrophy. If you let it be
dominated by a few foul mouthed jerks, ARBR will certainly lose its
mission. Only by speaking out against the foul-mouthed jerks will they
get the message. Feeding their vitriol will only continue the downward
spiral into the sewage pits. It is your choice, you can speak up or you
can leave. If you leave, 'they' win.

I have been here over four years now. I've learned a lot. I've shared a
lot. I've had the chance to put some faces with names. I would like
that to continue. There are a lot of you that I haven't had a chance
to ride with yet. I hope to do that with as many of you as I can.

Well, doesn't this just about take the cake! The big gun himself, old
Cletus of Houston, Texas has decided to post on what is essentially an
OT thread. Of course, I and many others are in his kill file, but that
doesn't prevent him from thinking he knows what is going on in this
newsgroup. He is the Ostrich-in-Chief who only posts on recumbent
related subjects, and yet here he is deigning to look down on us
peasants and give us the final word on what is what.

Cletus is obviously the lonely sort and likes to make friends via
newsgroups. He is against ever saying anything that would interfere
with that agenda. So of course he is not much for any flaming (except
to me of course) as that is not designed to make friends and influence
people. No, he has found a home here on ARBR and he does not want
anything to change ever.

He was more than happy with all the despicable liberal posting that
went on here before I showed up and I have no doubt he never kill
filed Mr. Sherman. He has most likely not yet kill filed him. That may
be because Mr. Sherman does occasionally post something related to
recumbents, but I have the feeling Cletus reads everything Mr. Sherman
posts to this newsgroup recumbent related or not. They are all
liberals and flock together like birds of a feather. And none of them
have the faintest clue as to what hypocrisy might possibly have to do
with them.

No, old Cletus is not into flaming at all. Of course he has just
called me irreverent, obscene, bigoted, something about turds, foul
mouth jerk, vitriolic, and something about sewage. He is an anal type
of course and so his mind runs to excrement. But old Cletus is given a
free ride by this newsgroup because he is a liberal in his politics
(even though he is from Texas). Now maybe the rest of you begin to
understand where I am coming from and why I give no quarter to these
*******s who call themselves liberals. It is all based on hatred at
first sight.

Ed Dolan - Minnesota