RTP-area local music and culture

["Jeremy Blair" <jerblar AT gmail.com>]

uug, and here I thought it was satire the whole time.

On 8/23/07, James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Doug Sutton <creeksidedls AT mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Todd Morman wrote:
> > >  > I don't get why we can't have a free exchange
> > of ideas
> > >  > without knuckleheads chiming in with
> > hyperbolic,
> > >  > sensationalist crap.
> > >
> > > Wait, I'm confused. James, which one is hyperbole:
> > that smokers are drug
> > > addicts or that smoke is poison gas? My dad was a
> > chainsmoker and I guess I
> > > got used to it because 2nd hand smoke never really
> > bothered me at clubs, but
> > > really, I'm having trouble finding the hyperbole
> > in Doug's comment.
> > >
> >
> > And while we are on the subject of hyperbole, here
> > is a comment from
> > James, a little further into the discussion:
> >
> > But I'm going to
> > bristle whenever someone tries to characterize me in
> > such a way that I come off as Union Carbide in
> > Bhopal.
>
> POISON CLOUD!  As I told Rossi, 3000 people died
> instantly when they came in contact with that POISON
> CLOUD.  Some 20,000 people died dhortly thereafter.
>
> I'm not the one who brought up the poison cloud.
> We're talking about a smoky bar, here.  That's where
> the hyperbole claim came from.
>
>
> > > todd the anger was easy to spot sure morman
> > >
> >
> > I'll admit that this subject can make me angry, but
> > also point out that
> > my disagreement with James did not lead me to a
> > desire to run him down
> > with my car.
>
> It didn't lead you to learn about being facetious on
> the internet either.
>
> Dude, you are like two steps away from calling smokers
> murderers, the same way that hamfisted activists all
> over the political spectrum paint their ideological
> opponents.  I'm not even against making the 506 smoke
> free.  But when I'm faced with the kind of vitriol
> that I saw in your posts, I'm not going to feel bad
> for responding in kind.
>
>
>
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