On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Helen Edwards wrote:

> Why do we have to put up with this type of vitriolic debate?

   The answer is, of course, that we *don't* have to put up with it.

   I've been lurking on this thread because it's so tiresome to watch nice
people get their bowels in an uproar over the fulminations of so puerile a
person. "Sarah Crewe," if indeed there is such a person, is either:

   a) a troll, in which case if we would just be quiet, it would fade back
into the forest; or,

   b) just trolling, in which case an awful lot of suckerfish have
swallowed her ploy, hook, line and stinker; or,

   c) a young person but not as young as she used to be, and has
recently had some sort of epiphany that gave her intimations of mortality
and is in denial; or,

   d) in fact just the sort of asshole she appears to be, in which
case, why are we handling her toilet paper?

   Please, folks, let us move on; time will take care of Sarah Crewe.

   Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Arlington VA USA