[Vision2020] List server question

[Joan Opyr]

On 5 Dec 2005, at 16:18, ken dollinger wrote:

> I've been reading this unmoderated list for awhile now from my
>> friend's account.   Wow!  What a soap opera!  I have learned 
>> absolutely nothing about Moscow.  I've learned that someone named Tom 
>> Hansen really despises Donavan, everyone hates this NSA building and 
>> more over, religon is the topic of choice!  Can anyone direct me to a 
>> real Moscow discussion website? I was looking for something about 
>> current local events.  Has anyone else started their own listserver I 
>> could join?
>
>> Thanks,
>
> Ken

Dear Visionaries and "Ken,"

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm noticing a trend here.  In 
the past week or so, we've had three messages from three people -- 
people that I, for one, have never heard of before, and they are all 
saying exactly the same thing.  To wit: I signed up for this community 
forum expecting a lot of talk about bridges and traffic flow, but all 
you people ever talk about is NSA, religion, and Douglas J. Wilson.  
Oh, and Donovan Arnold.  No one ever stops talking about Donovan 
Arnold, but then, Donovan Arnold never stops talking.  MIT should use 
his mouth in its perpetual motion studies.

But back to my point -- two of these new members have been women; one 
is this fellow, Ken.  I have to admit that I am deeply suspicious of 
the women: Gail and Jackie, were their names, weren't they?  I'm 
suspicious because I remember the late, unlamented Edna Wilmington.  
(Check the Vision 2020 archives, Ken, sometime around late 2003, early 
2004.  Edna Wilmington was one of many Christ Church/NSA/Anselm House 
men who chose to post pseudonymously using a female alias.  Most 
peculiar.  And hairy-legged.  It was all very Milton Berlesque.)  My 
suspicion is that we've acquired a few more "Trinitarian Skylarkers," 
only this batch has been watching too much Monty Python and so before 
posting, they take off their manly men-of-chest Oxford cricket sweaters 
and put on floral housecoats and pink hair curlers:

"Good morning, Mrs. Premise."
"Good morning, Mrs. Conclusion."
"I've just spent four hours burying the cat."
"Four hours to bury a cat?"
"Well, it wasn't dead yet.  Kept kicking and screaming, but who wants 
to come back from Toronto to a dead cat?"

If these new members are real, I say welcome to the fray.  If you don't 
like what's being discussed, I say I'm sorry.  I also suggest that you 
might perhaps like to log onto Yahoo and begin your own fray.  You 
could call it "Moscow minus the Jesus" or something like that.  Why 
bitch about what's going on here?  If I walk into a room and find that 
I don't care for the conversation, I leave.  I either find someone else 
to go and someone else to talk to, or I sort through my own Monty 
Python DVDs, and I sit down to a nice cuppa and bit of the old dead 
parrot sketch.

"The Norwegian Blue likes to kip on his back!"

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: Are things getting too hot for you, Doug?  Trying, once again, to 
shut down 2020?  Give it rest, would you?  You've got your blog; your 
brother's got his blog (www.evantine.com); and Dale's got his blahg.  
If your ears are burning, then put some ice on those puppies.  You've 
only yourself to blame.
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