🚀 go-pugleaf

"Tom Malone" <tmalone@domisysinc.com> wrote in message
news:sk9uakpgh51102@corp.supernews.com...
>
> Dan Hartung <dhartung@wwa.com> wrote in message
> news:ca615.1091$vP1.37876@ord-read.news.verio.net...
> > "Tom Malone" <tfmalone@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> > news:FHW05.1290$AZ3.7195@news2.mco...
> > >
> > > Dan Hartung <dhartung@wwa.com> wrote in message
> > > news:RYV05.1074$vP1.36656@ord-read.news.verio.net...
> > > > "yert" <yertbarNOyeSPAM@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
> > > > news:0b1a3314.586fd07e@usw-ex0101-007.remarq.com...
> > > > >"USA! USA! USA!"
> > > >
> > > > And then he fell off the top of the Olympic stadium, drunk
with
> > > > patriotism.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > watched by Dan Hartung, who, under the mistaken belief that
> > negativism
> > > suggests critical thinking, smiled smugly, and lived happily
ever
> > after in
> > > his dimensionless universe, much like a cow gazing at the world
> > through the
> > > pasture fence.
> >
> > While Tom Malone, who attributes both "negativism" and "living
happily
> > ever after" to be essentially identical states of mind, smokes
like a
> > Star Trek computer at the logical impossibility.
> >
> > I want to change things because I'm optimistic. That hardly
suggests
> > either negativism OR acting like a herd animal. The ones who are
> > cheering the status quo are the cows. Moo, Mr. Malone?
> >
> >
> Well, I'm pleased that you cleared this up.  But why are you mooing
at me?
>
> Goodbye, optimistic cow.  You're not a worthy opponent.

What, for internally inconsistent wisecracks using mixed metaphors? I
should hope not.

If "negativism" is the best you can come up with ... at least Spiro
Agnew made reactionary commentary seem funny by adding "nattering
nabobs".