And now he’s heading towards suicide by mod, at least IMHO.
You think I’ll reach the 19 warnings of BPC or the 10 warnings of BigT first? 
- Yes, he did not.
- I’m glad you agree the economy is good.
- He tried to.
- “It” being what conservatives think.
Well done! Made me chuckle. Ellison would probably have been banned by now, too, if he ever posted here.
Oh, Ellison would have lost patience with us in a matter of minutes. I’m pretty sure I would have made a point of needling him just for my own amusement because the angry yet articulate fireworks of contempt would be like combining the first, second, third and fourth of July.
“So, Harlan, you really liked that Outland movie, I heard.” BOOM!
That Terminator movie is the most original story I’ve ever seen! Where does James Cameron get his ideas?
“Demon With a Glass Hand was probably the shittiest Outer Limits episode ever, right?”
By the way, please understand that I can’t always give you an attuned response.
– But, please go on.
Any idea on this?
How can a city be on the edge of forever? Doesn’t “forever” go on, like, forever? How can it have an edge? Doesn’t it having an edge mean it ends at some point? Huh? Huh? Forever? Huh?
Bad puns based on I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Love you guys to pieces.
Maybe somebody else could have made Dangerous Visions happen, but nobody else did! All his sins, forgiven.
On reflection, this discussion of being glad to be rid of certain trolls has led to how some of us would deliberately troll Harlan Ellison, had he been a poster here, if we take “trolling” to include needling an individual as opposed to just trying to randomly inflame a group.
Truth be told, I’d be happy to tolerate the hypothetical member Ellison getting lots of leeway in insulting other posters in Café Society because he’d be likely to do so in a highly entertaining fashion. I’m sure some posters (myself included) would be happy to provoke him just for that purpose.
I once saw Ellison at a conference. A misguided “fan” tried to goad him. Said “fan” was insulted and berated by H.E. so badly, that he ended up leaving the room, never to return. It was a thing of beauty.
In fact, as I recall, the only person in the whole place that Ellison showed any respect to whatsoever was A. E. Van Vogt.
I was insulted by him, and it was a high point of my life.
He kept calling me an idiot because I didn’t jump at the chance to get his autograph. He was going on about how it’d be worth a lot on eBay after he died, which would probably be any day now.
We were amusing everyone else there, so I kept telling him about things I’d rather do than get his autograph: “That vasectomy with half the anesthetic I should’ve had? That was more pleasurable. And when all the grandkids had to kiss my elderly Granny Lorraine’s powdered jowls…?”
After all that, I couldn’t ask him for his signature, so I told him that on my way home I’d buy an empty frame (which I did!), and tell people that it’s my most prize possession: the blank piece of paper that looks better without Harlan Ellison’s autograph.
If half the stories about Ellison are true, he’d have gotten himself banned quite quickly without any needling required. As eloquent and creative as his abuse may have been, the odds of him unleashing it in GD on a regular basis would have been high.
I’d be willing to bet that this was the high point of his week, if not his month. He probably told others about this story with glee.