Why, oh, why do you taunt me so? Why do you attack me with such relentless abandon? And now, from out of the blue, without provocation, you imply, without subtlety, that I consume my own waste. Am I not spread eagle upon the cross of your pointless persecution? Do you truly consider your empty and flippant remark to be intellectually honest and fair? Are you not a sophist of the basest order? Oh, woe! Oh, calamity! Oh, what a heavy weight I bear in sparing you the fullness of my wrath. I warn you. Taunt me further, and I shall unleash upon you twice as many words as these.
(Lib, I hope you realize that I still think of you as a friend. You know what a friend is, don’t you? It’s someone who likes you in spite of yourself.)
My first post…
I have spent the last 4 hours reading posts in several forums, (the last 2 hours of which were spent reading the links in the original post here, as well as some of Lib’s other work.) As someone else stated, Lib is either a genius or a madman. I was unsure until the Vandalay reference. Lib is great. Straightdope is great. Thanks for having me.
Pretty much both, yup. He seems to have come back rather improved from his last sabbatical, in general getting a better handle on the tendency to unconsciously reduce any opponents to absurdities, and then arguing with the inner caricature instead of the actual human being on the other side of the text. These last couple of In Character threads are doing that consciously, which is a big improvement (I think the first was a bit less forced simply because the I’m Not Impressed, Have You Seen My Shoulder Chip? routine is just a block or two closer to the absurdity neighborhood than the I Am Scholarly And Troweling Debate On Thick gig).
And that’s what makes life worthwhile. Whether you know it or not, you’re the reason I returned here, thanks to a little assistance from SDMB administration. See you in the next lampoon.
