"Todd Pattist" wrote in message
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Debbbie, I'm glad you didn't let Peter get to you. He's one
of the resident "sweeties" here who has been coaxed by the
semi-anonymity of Usenet to ease off the polite social norms
just a bit farther than most.

Oh please. You haven't got a clue regarding the effect of "semi-anonymity
of Usenet" on me. Get off your damn high horse.

If some crackpot came up to me in person and told me that she'd seen an
airliner stop in mid-air, and oh-my-gosh she sure hopes THAT doesn't happen
too terribly often, and then I explained to her that it was simply an
optical illusion, and then she continued on insisting that
oh-no-I-know-what-I-saw-the-airliner-DID-stop-in-mid-air, I would say
straight to her face exactly what I wrote here.

If you knew me as a friend in person, you would not write something so
foolish.

It's great you have more patience with people scared to death of airplanes
for no reason, but that doesn't mean you have the inside scoop on why I say
the things I do. Frankly I'm sick up putting up with them, and given the
frustration I experience from people like this on a reasonably regular
basis, what I wrote here has been quite mild indeed.

Pete