Jay Honeck wrote:

[...] (b) it's always fun to watch the different (and utterly predictable)
reactions from certain members of this group.

Yikes, you mean you were trolling?!

Is it trolling when the reaction is always the same? If a tree falls
in the woods, and there's no one there to hear it...well, you know the
rest.

Sometimes I swear Mike, Pete and Jose are simply Usenet AI programs,
set up to respond
with three specific responses that are triggered by any given stimuli.
Google could easily set something like this up in order to keep the
newsgroups rolling along...

"Bigot! You never ___! You said ____! Bigot! You haven't spent time in the
midwes to hear that it's full of bigots!"