Oh he is sometimes. They all are sometimes. Like, whasisname, Contrapuntal would piss me off in 9 threads out of 10 and then that last one, he’d have a zinger that made me forget it all.
And even Dorothy Parker had misfires. The difference is that they didn’t bother writing them down.
But this is all tangential because if you look at what you quoted, you may notice that it’s not in defense of Boyo Jim at all but an explanation as to why he’s being so roundly mocked.
But Dorothy Parker did it at the Algonquin with people like Robert Benchley and George Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott. These guys could give it right back to her.
Fighting with lions and tigers is one thing but there’s no sport in stomping on kittens.
I don’t think Boyo Jim is a kitten.
Yeah!
I didn’t find the OP of the linked thread all that egregious, either. Sure, it could have been written better, but at this point on the internet, if he didn’t use a lot of L33T speak, used punctuation and capitalization, and didn’t spell it, “Alot,” I’ll take it. 
You mean men do make passes at girls who are asses?
Are, have, let’s not quibble over verbs.
You want to see who doesn’t have enough fiber in their diet, just post something in text speak.
And it was an odd OP to complain about. I mean, I have an English degree, and that didn’t even set off the “ENGLISH LANGUAGE THREATENED. ALERT! ALERT!” bells for me. Seemed like a perfectly copacetic OP.
We are the smartest people on the internet and we must make sure that the rest of the internet knows that.
I’m not very smart but I’m really good looking. That’s why they let me post here.
Apparently, I need to take an English composition class as well, because I can’t figure out what’s wrong with that OP.
Boyo Jim was complaining about the OP’s story-telling skills, not their grammar.
I know I was read the riot act when I first got here, but I deserved it so it was all good
I’m apparently fucking blind. You’re absolutely right. He wasn’t complaining about grammar or spelling skills. But I also don’t think that OP’s story-telling skills were particularly egregious to be pointed out.
You’re not a true grammar Nazi until you call yourself a grammar Nazi while interviewing for a communications position at a Jewish community center.
Of course, that’s, uh, just a hypothetical situation. It never happened to me.
Ah, so you’re the one!
His sentences were a bit fragmentary and choppy - they didn’t have a harmonious flow. As I said earlier, in the internet grand scheme of things, BFD.
Oooh, that post by Boyo Jim had me crrrringing with secondhand embarrassment! I love a good cringe, man. Perfectly good OP… I’m actually embarrassed for ALL of us dopers. Boyo embarrassed us all.
Apropos of nothing but every composition teacher I’ve ever had frowned upon the use of words like choppy or flow in the critiquing process. It’s like telling someone who missed a lay-up to throw better.
And as I would say, they sounded conversational to me. He’s not writing a novel, he’s posting on a message board (and even if he were writing a novel, it might be appropriate given the tone he wanted to convey.) Nothing about the style to me screamed “must be pointed out by a pedant!”
Thanks for pointing that out. “Flow” is such a shitty/inexact word to use when critiquing prose. It means, essentially, whatever the hell the author/reader wants it to mean. It is devoid of content. (ETA: And I’m sure I’ve used it myself before. But it’s still a meaningless descriptor.)