[Vision2020] List server question

[Pat Kraut]

I hate to burst your conspiracy theory but I know one of the women who wrote recently. I heard the comments about V2020 before I wrote also but hoped to be able to keep on task. I have failed I know but do still have hope we could do some positive things for Moscow on this site. But, then again maybe something new is a good idea.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr 
  To: Vision2020 Moscow 
  Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] List server question


  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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