OT: Anyone want a good laugh?

> >Will looking for info on The Great Crusade Network Swap, I stumbled

hmm? Crusade isn't going to be on TNT?

[snip]

> Apparently not. He been trolling about Aint it Cool News proclaiming

Wow... and I can't help but wonder what he calls "good" SF:)

Will looking for info on The Great Crusade Network Swap, I stumbled onto this
page:

        http://www.angelfire.com/yt/Crusade/

And I thought that the WWW was a force for good.

Later,

> At 07:47 PM 2/3/99 -0600, you wrote:

This is a joke, right.....?

What is this guy? A homicidial trekker?

> Jason Stephensen wrote:

Apparently not. He been trolling about Aint it Cool News proclaiming the evils
of Babylon 5, JMS, and other "crap" science fiction like Robert Heinlein and
Jerry Pournelle. Anyone who is a B5 fan (whom he
claims is part of a tiny minority of sci-fi fans) wants to "divide"
sci-fi fandom and foist the Babylon 5 on the genre.  If you ask me.  He
need therapy.

> What is this guy? A homicidial trekker?

That would be my first guess.

Later,

Just goes to show how Brain Cancer affects judgement calls....

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> -----Original Message-----

Shouldn't that read _suicidal_ trekkie?  Even other trekkies are liable
to keel-haul him.

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> "Mark A. Siefert" wrote:

> Buji Kern wrote:

> I'm sorry, anybody who considers Heinlein and Pournelle

He's definitely a troll. Read the VERY small print at the bottom of the long
tirade page. I've seen all this before; usually it's about religion.

What saddens me most is the amount of time/energy some people are
wasting in writing to this guy, telling him off. That's what he WANTS; you can
tell by some of the comments after other people's emails. This guy isn't
interested in debate, he just wants attention. Do the right thing; ignore him.

just playing devil's advocate here, you understand...

> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Mark A. Siefert wrote:

> Jason Stephensen wrote:
He
> need therapy.

well, i hate to say this, but b5 actually isn't good sf. it is great space
opera (ships explode! people fall in love! none of the main characters die
except at crucial moments of the plot!) but it's not science fiction.

it's also pretty badly acted and gets absurdly overblown in places.
personally, i love it. star trek is the same only with less exploding ships
(plus patrick stewart is a rather good actor, and yes, that's probably just
anglocentric bias; sorry).

this guy probably is just a trekker mad at seeing his show/religion
knocked off the top spot in the Cool SF stakes, but he does have one or two
points.

Tom

I this a joke?? Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm........ While B5 might not
be Hamlet, if this person is serious (no names, so no

credibility) they have entirely too much time on their hands. Course, some of
us have been accused of that as well, eh?

JimC

----Original Message Follows----
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:47:40 -0600
From: "Mark A. Siefert" <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu>
To: Ground Zero Games Mailing List <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: OT:  Anyone want a good laugh?
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

Will looking for info on The Great Crusade Network Swap, I stumbled onto this
page:

        http://www.angelfire.com/yt/Crusade/

And I thought that the WWW was a force for good.

Later, Mark A. Siefert

----Original Message Follows----
From: Mike Wikan <MWikan@mailhost.accolade.com>
To: "'gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'" <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: RE: OT:  Anyone want a good laugh?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:46:00 -0800
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

Just goes to show how Brain Cancer affects judgement calls....

<WhacketyWHACKETYWhackety>
-Narn Bat Squad attempt Tumor removal.........

Michael Wikan

> Mark A. Siefert wrote: