re so do any xxxx i mean police officers read this stuff in article apr dsd es com bgardner pebbles es com blaine gardner writes in article ltdv ainn hb earth cs utexas edu mcguire cs utexas edu tommy marcus mcguire writes hey what the hell do you mean by that you suck i have a god given right to express opinions carry a gun and to not wear a helmet goddamn it everything you stand for is stupid i d give it an on a scale of while not mentioning hitler or koresh weighs in your favor you also neglected to mention mph tennis balls little girls and countersteering another thing to consider is that like mexican food a lot of folks mistake heat for quality subtle references to various personal qualities habits ancestry possesions generally earn more points than four letter words or the caps lock key and introducing a new polysyllabic word strabismic for example is likely to insure that some small part of your flame will become immortal blaine gardner evans sutherland bgardner dsd es com aw c mon the serious overreaction ought to be worth a couple of points not to mention the bit condemning everthing the flamee might ever say the non sequitur about guns and helmets is just the proper flourish i personally am of the opinion that there are two types of good flames the first does trade quality in the sense you mention for heat this has a certain surprise value and if done correctly which i contend was done above is reasonably entertaining while it is true that the flame i posted does not mention anyone s habitual velocity friends dinner or entertainment it says what it needs to with the appropriate flair and it is short the weakness of this type of flame is actually that it can easily be taken too far at which point it becomes trite and boring witness the infante thread recently the other type of flame which you seem to be glorifying above has a few weaknesses as well in the first place it can get verbose and tedious in the extreme particularly if the reader does not already strongly identify with one side or the other in the second discussing someone s personal qualities habits and so forth can quickly become libelous or is that slanderous i can never remember the difference this leads to a proliferation of lawyers which is widely regarded as a bad thing finally introducing polysyllabic words is problematic i can t haul my big dic around on my bike and it would be bad form to use a word which actually turned out to have a meaning especially one which ran counter to my use and flamage in general in summary blaine your score for that flame is incorrect while it may be the wunder flame the weaknesses you point out are not necessarily weaknesses and your suggested corrections are not always useful nor applicable you also probably couldn t outrun a tennis ball with a flatulent dog stapled to your posterior and i ll bet you and your motorcycle lean to the outside while turning the same goes for anyone who looks like you too tommy mcguire mcguire cs utexas edu mcguire austin ibm com i will append an appropriate disclaimer to outgoing public information identifying it as personal and as independent of ibm
