So while we wait for Kerry Lauerman to lead us to the promised land of wordpress, here's something I'm wondering about.
Last week, someone whom I respect immensely, for many many qualities involving their art and writing, told me they agreed with my vitriolic post about LKWalker (the disappeared-one preceding “I,Trapper” (available upon request!), the author being smoocher of murdered pine martens). But the hate-mail receiver would not comment in public because they were tired of being attacked with hate mail about their opinions. HATE MAIL! It was like hearing that Santa Claus got hate mail,if Santa Claus were real. (I'm not saying he's not).
Hate mail. Why don't I get any? It's not like I am incapable of really irritating people. But I'm starting to feel a little less than, and these days, given my really nasty mood, this disturbs me. So why don't we get to see more of this hate mail? I know it's out there. It's got to be entertaining. The whole private message system of OS guarantees it. And as long as I've been accused of causing the breakdown of society, I like Tink's idea about opening the doors so we're not spitting on ourselves.
What's the worst hate mail you've ever received here? Worst is relative, I know, but extra credit for bad grammar, misspellings, and extreme idiocy (spitting at closed doors would qualify here). Fruitcake (good fruitcake) goes to the winner.
Arbitrarily-appointed judges are Tink, Fernsy, Drew-Silla, Matt Paust, and Emma Peel, all of whom I respect for various reasons. Judges are allowed to submit entries. I will be the judging substitute for their entries.If none of the judges want to judge, again I will be the substitute. But I will be try to be fair.
And who doesn't like good fruitcake?
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P.S. - About my wine guy - he says he can't ship to the U.S. are present, but he's "working on it".
PPS - Drinking dense blueberry wine makes your teeth purple...
On topic - I seem to remember one or two somewhat grumpy PMs, but nothing really nasty. I have sent one or two somewhat grumpy PMs, but nothing really nasty.
PPPS - If anyone ever *attacks* me, I'll run to you for assistance, okay?
Wait. All that sticking our necks out for anti-mouse and rabbit corpse fondling, and someone agreed only by slipping in a message through the back door??
Stand up and write a post about it, Mr/Ms Anonymous!
Geez. The one and only time I've gone off on a post-er. It was something about the visible enjoyment of death and only death seeping through the words.
I've not received any hate mail, but not sure I ought to admit it. A clear sign I just don't matter.
*sob*
I mean, whew.
Although there was the one post 'someone' thought I was lying...but maybe I was just confused about what in my post irritated her. Hardly hate mail though, just a lil' comments discussion. : )
like "I HATE YOU!" Nothing like nanatehay gets tho..
You're crackin' me up Jane!
I despise citron, Mumblety, so you can expect a series of bizarre, threatening, poorly spelled private messages imMEDiately!
Aw, hate mail. Let me count the ways. I've been receiving it for decades. First, as a critic -- let me tell you, that is a job if done properly that teaches you popularity isn't everything. If nanatehay is the hate mail king at OS, then I am the queen for sheer quantity and variety. Illiterate, curse-ridden personal attacks are at the bottom tier of my mail; the top is reserved for appeals for me to seek professional help for daring to disagree with whatever nutbar has decided I'm their target of the week.
I've also been vilified publicly at OS in ways that my enemies, who appear to be legion, seem to enjoy sinking to new depths. I've been derided on everything from my ability to achieve orgasm to my physical appearance. The only thing off limits is the actual validity and content of my opinions.
Now that I'm not posting much, I confess to actually missing my hate mail. Good times....
(fucken longhair freeeaaaaken coward!!!!!!!)-(White people already are the minority!)-(Duuude, You sound like a Cheech & Chong alumni.)-(Your cynicism exposes your words as those of a bitter, angry, small, naïve person.)-(Get all the surf you can my friend. That will be the best it gets for you. Your godless, 5 sense, mental ascension into selfish nirvana at the expense of faith is your loss.)-(put that in you bong and hit.)-(are you just another ex-sds weatherman coward talking revolution again?)-("You" are a total and complete misogynistic asshole. Just my informed opinion.)
Love em'!!!
Why are people so shy about sharing?
That's a good one.
It was odd, to be sure, as the letter I published in the Times had nothing whatever to do w Jews, Judaism, Israel, etc. It was abt an experience I'd witnessed in China. All the letter writers had to go on, as to supposing I am Jewish (as I am) was my name.
I suppose hundreds got such letters and still do.
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Said PMer went on to say I would probably be spending my after life in Hell as God would not take as an excuse "I was born this way".
I wrote a post about it soon after reading the PMer. I was pissed but I'm glad I didn't respond to them in private, it's more OPEN to blog about it in public!!!
I think I sent trig a Hate message, something about throwing him against the fence during a Chicago Bears football game and something else, though the more I think about it, I think that was a public comment and very soon afterwards, I got the PM about me being a homosexual.
I've gotten a couple of hate comments, mostly on my blogs about politicians such as "MAYBE YOU WANT TO GIVE MCCAIN A BLOW JOB!! YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS OF SARAH PALIN, ASSHOLE!!! SIGNED, YOUR FRIEND, NANATEHAY!!!"
I once tried to send a hate message to Emma, but she sent it back with a note, "Sorry, the characters are unbelievable and the wording is common and non-interesting, please re-write with the suggestions below and re-submit!"
She then flunked me in the course!! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS IN A COURSE!!!!! :D
I agree, if you're going to fight, fight in public, that way the rest of us can laugh as you misspell ass wipe!! :D
See, it's better to base our hatred on who we root for in the Fooseball tournament ---- I'm still cheering for the Handover Chicken Hawks!!! GOOOOOO CHICKEN HAWKS!!! :D
Fooseball, or as the amateurs write it, Foosball, is the best(and seriously, actually made the Spam feed with LIVE BROADCASTING OF...~L~) :D
She's doing much better and has found a new series, ER or Guiding Light or something!!!
:D
On the matter of Ms. Theo, it was at the end of her run on OS, she was down, nobody was reading, including me, according to her, and she may have been over medicating her blog writer Fee Fee, but later on, she and I were still friends, still are, got a message from her not too long ago on Facebook!
I have always said, if I invited all my friends to a party, I'd have to keep some of them in their own room(Nana and Trig are probably in that category as well , but I lubs them like my own brothers!!!!!!! Trig sometimes doubles as my twin sister, Rita O'Hara!! Cute as a button but a bitch if you steal her vodka on a Saturday morning!!! :D)
Even the Spammers!!!
Without them, I wouldn't have had two blogs for today! Not even one!!
And that would have been a damn shame!!:D
@Tink: your grade grubbing is getting on my nerves!
emma, I grade lub u!! :D
(and durn it, you told me I couldn't create lovable characters that out last the test of time...emma meet vzn, vzn meet emma! :D)
I KID, I SOLD YOU BOTH TO THE CHINESE YEARS AGO!!
~wanders off~
Tink - it is somewhat scary to say this but I think you have become the OS Shakespeare. Now please dedicate a post to me so I won't be forgotten.
course that could just be my memory, which is for shit
I had to memorize a Sonnet by ole Will, darling buds of May is about all I can remember, but it made me appreciate the fact, I would never ever have to recite the damn thing ever again!!
I also got a C+ for that course. I got nervous standing up in front of the class, reciting that sonnet, missing like two verses and then wetting myself!!!
That's how I got the nickname Tinkles!! ~:D
have had few PMs from a whacko or two, mostly screeching about something they thought i should know and which was supposed to disabuse me of believing something that i and pretty much every other sane person knew was actually true. i never - unequivocally - never answer them.
but i've had plenty of really vile, anonymous shit flung my way by a person (i think it's only one, and i'm pretty sure who it is, though i can't prove it. yet.) who is seriously fucked up and likes to create alters for the sole purpose of making false, ugly, personal accusations about me and, so far, one other person. management has been informed, so it has stopped for a while and a couple of the accounts have been deleted by the PTB. as i said somewhere else a while ago, though, a bully is a bully, and i'm through ignoring this stuff.
mumbles, can i please have some fruitcake?
~~waves at emma~~
I don't understand why anyone would bother to communicate with someone they hate. If I hate someone then they are irrelevant to me and I wouldn't waste my time sending them notes. Electronic mail in general annoys me, if I write someone then it really matters to me. I was incredibly nasty in a post recently, no pleasure to me but it was a good excercise.
Sorry you were annoyed and had your time wasted. Good luck to those entering the contest, glad the prize is fruitcake.
@oldnewlefty: That's what my favourite editor always said!
" Youse austrians learn yer ( @#%&$x ) place & watchoo dooin on os anyways this hears merka las I herd & we don want no dam Eupeans tellin us what the ( @#$%#&x ) fer - youse wanna we shud bomb yor bandicoot ass too ?"
I'd copy At Home Pilgrim's but it was just that bit too foul ( though his spelling was impeccable. )
"Iwanttobustyourheadopenandeatyourbrainsyoubigtittypiratebitch"!
Not really.
I never got hate mail. I just wanted a prize...moving on...nothing to see here...just move on.
But Nanatehay...now he and Bill Beck can bring a truckful of the hate mail that they've gotten. Stuff that would knap up a bald headed person's head.
Would that “knap up a baldheaded person’s head” be akin to knapping flint to make arrowheads? We tried to do that waaaaaaay back when I was a Boy Scout. Not easy! I can’t imagine doing that to a baldheaded person’s head at all. Who could put up with that inconsiderate screaming every time you knocked a spall off?
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Regarding hate mail on OS. I personally haven't gotten any, but I see some folks who just seem to have a war of words with each other. Now if you don't want those fruitcakes, send them to me. I love frutcake!
Aloha Kakou
So even though I've continued arguments and dust ups in PMs, only one person has actually sent me mean hateful accusatory stuff. But I was relatively new and decided to keep my big mouth shut and not go any further and they faded away.
No one sends me hate mail at all. I don't even know if I'd qualify that mean email with hate mail. It seems to me hate stuff is more scary, more anonymous and venal.
Considering, I've written some seriously incendiary/borderline crazy stuff, I guess I've managed to remain on the perifery. It helps to not be a good writer because no one takes you seriously around here. I think if you're good AND your vulnerable, some nut will fall in love with torturing you.
So even though I've taken on hoards of angry torch bearing fuckmuppet haters, ultimately everyone is relatively nice to me. No nasty stuff spewed in my little mailbox.
I think it's because I'm old and everyone knows if you make an old person cry, you go straight to hell even before you're dead. They're doomed, those fuckers!
Never a speck of hate mail. Some people damn confused about what the hell I meant
by a certain comment or post, but nothing nasty.
Drew once asked me how I get out of bed w/o having any enemies.
I don’t follow that kind of logic, tho I respect Drew immensely, that lovely peach of a gal.
I guess I am just loveable. Being occasionally obscure & elliptical helps.
If i ever did get hate mail, i would probably annihilate them with a nuclear blast of Intellect, plus humiliate them. That's just the way i tend to be against naughty nasty people.
Jim
And, what a varied bunch the judges we are. Ahem... Hmmm... Ahem. Hmmm...
I've gotten strange and hurtful mail , but not proper hate mail YET.
This should be very interesting and fun. I will try my best to fullfill the duties.
I have been looking back at all my past comments.
I was being deleted on every (letter) comment @ GG.
I was amazed. One topic I had researched very seriously.
Every comment was deleted. I inquired. NO RESPONSE.
I save all comments. Even my deleted ones. PM's some.
Thoth's.
I reread.
I wonder.
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Who is Klytus?
He sure was nasty.
He loved to be nasty.
He 'took me' on @ GG.
I still think I know who.
Whatever.
Life is brief.
In 1,000 years?
It may still matter?
I'd say beware.
Practice kindness.
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Fruitcake? Nutty.
It do stops doors.
Save all Fruitcake.
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I like learning.
Oddballs teach.
Let's listen up.
Kooky nut too.
Fruitcake nuts.
Use hickory nuts.
Serve nut in cocktail.
Where's Cocktailhag?
I may google Cocktailhag.
Where's DCLaw1? Pedinska?
Jebbie? Etc., I go to`heehaw.
oh well hell then, I've gotten hate mail from friends ;D
I much prefer behind-my-back hate mail. That's the kind I'm used to. Although, really, I'm pretty sure I'm not so thoughtworthy as to warrant a flurry of PM activity. Except maybe my recent post with the yellow squash, because those squash haters are mean motherfuckers.
I have gotten hate comments from one of the judges-- for what that's worth.
I do like fruitcake. Especially when it has many walnuts.Walnuts aren't a fruit, but such is life.
In another case a regular OS'er wrote a post to specifically say I was an example of everything that was wrong with America,and call me ignorant, simply because I expressed an opinion they disagreed with. BTW the piece I wrote popped up in numerous place around the net so I guess I touched a big nerve. I told them exactly what I thought of them and then again took some time off. I have had nothing to do with either of those people ever since.
Oryoki Bowl - if you get great fan mail, you have to make your own fruitcake, to treat yourself for good work. I point you towards foolish monkey's fruitcake post.