On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:12:50 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

You just gave anyone who was on the fence a convincing reason to never
take your posts seriously again. Congratulations.


Dittos on that, Mr. Francis.
Although the thought of ALR and Rand Simberg debating each other would
be hilarious:

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I have been "debating" this creature, though I've little else to say,
and it bore little resemblance to your fantasy, Pat.