mild profanity and other possible offences

[Lew Bloch]

>>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:24:58PM -0500, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>> > bitch
>>
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 00:01, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>> While your sympathy to the guy who got dumped is appeciated, this kind of
>>> name calling isn't really appropriate on this list. It doesn't prompte a
>>> friendly atmosphere, even if you mean well. I'm not any sort of authority or
>>> anything, and I'm not trying to force you, but I personally would appreciate
>>> it.

I was not in the least offended by G's use of the word "bitch" - it was 
funny, sympathetic and entirely appropriate.  (It was also one-sided - 
maybe the guy was a real jerkwad and deserved to be dumped. 
Insufficient evidece.)  It was not necessary to call in the Thought 
Police on this one.

If we get too uptight about every little seeming transgression - "That 
was off-topic!" "Ooh, Mommy, he said a bad word!" "Oh, my poor delicate 
ears!" "Hey, you could possibly interpret that to mean that he says I'm 
an asshole!" (You know who you are.) "Suzy stepped over on *my* side of 
the line!" - then we're going to need Mary Poppins to step in and show 
us how to be children again.

Do not make me have to consult a lawyer to post on this forum.

For Chrissake, and I don't mean that in any religious or reverent way, 
lighten up!