[net.suicide] Apology Please

bob@alice.UUCP (11/01/85)

research!rob writes:

>  It makes me uncomfortable to mention in so tawdry a medium a name
>  so hallowed, but I find no other recourse than to quote our late
>  saintly friend, rabbit!bimmler.  Sean Casey observes that,
>  
>  > I disagree.  If it's related to suicide or the prevention of suicide, then
>  > there's no reason it shouldn't be here.
>  
>  to which rabbit!bimmler might have written, as she did so long ago,
>  
>  	What you and (apparently) everyone else in this newsgroup fails
>  	to realize (brain size being limited) is that this newsgroup has
>  	NOTHING to do with suicide.... Since when does the name of a place
>  	have anythiing to do with what you talk about there?  Must one
>  	discuss gobblers in Turkey?
>  
>  I couldn't have said it better if I'd said it myself.

Now I knew rabbit!bimmler pretty well, and I am certain she would *never*
be so clumsy as to type 'anythiing' when she meant 'anything'.  Our
illustrious friend research!rob is deliberately misquoting her to
belittle her legend.  I demand an apology.

					BOB