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In lugnet.general, Steve Campbell writes:
> Gary Istok wrote:
> >
> > Larry Pieniazek was in the Detroit metro area yesterday, and stopped by
> > for the evening. After reading all of his posts, as well as the flamage
> > going his way, I didn't know what to expect. Well, he was quite unlike
> > that tough exterior that he shows in the newsgroups. He was very
> > pleasant and friendly.
>
> > snip
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> You know, a lot of us don't have that kind of opportunity. I mean, sure,
> more power to Gary and all but I don't think i need my nose rubbed in it.
>
> "I got to play with Larry and none of you did, nyah nyah,"
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> I think you should have just kept it to yourself.
>
> Unless you could come up with a plan that would give us ALL access to
> Larry in the future. Like maybe if we could call up Larry and order as
> much of Larry as we want. But of course THAT won't happen any time soon
> as Larry moves toward more seniorization.
I don't think that's being entirely fair. I don't think we can get mad at
Gary just because he took advantage of an opportunity that came his way. I
think the real target of your ire should be Larry himself, for not providing
that opportunity for anyone. I mean, it's not like we wouldn't take him out
to dinner too - no one's looking for a free Larry here - but since the rest of
us have access restricted to what we can get from the newsgroups and e-mail,
it's really the way that Larry runs his time that is to blame. And as long as
Larry remains private, there's not really a lot of say that the rest of us
have. All we can do is continue to gripe, and hope that someday Larry wakes
up and starts offering a bulk time ordering service.
;-)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/larry/
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| (...) Larry can never offer a bulk time ordering service because that would ruin his prepackaged time bundles and besides it would be too much work to track each minute of his time to be worth selling it in bulk. Scott Smallbeck (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Ya know, I usually don't get cheesed off by posters, but this really takes the cake! I wasn't attempting to rub anyones noses in anything (in fact Larry thinks he's the lucky one, since I do have one of the rarest Lego collections this side (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) And Gary's pretty neat, kind gentle, smart, etc. Not what I expected a mainframe programmer to be like <grins, ducks and runs> at all. (...) OK, OK, it (a time ordering service) is on my list of webpage enhancements. Right after the live (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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| (...) You know, a lot of us don't have that kind of opportunity. I mean, sure, more power to Gary and all but I don't think i need my nose rubbed in it. "I got to play with Larry and none of you did, nyah nyah," I think you should have just kept it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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