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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: alyxz@aol.com (Alyxz)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 13:23:50 EDT

After the laughter subsides, he pens,

"I was unaware that one was required to baby sit morons before being permitted in good conscience, to call them morons.

As for insulting, I often find it an endless source of amusement, how often people in this sport complain about fighting. The irony has a definite appeal to it.

~Alyxz"
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From: lrdartides@aol.com (LrdArtides)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 14:26:41 EDT

::knowing no one will really get the joke, he pens a quote::

"Gentlemen, gentlemen... you can't fight here! This is the Warroom!"
~President Merkin Muffley.

::sighs and stalks away, nevertheless giggling as he does so::
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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: zenblack@aol.com (Zen Black)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 15:50:14 EDT

::reads the quote and snickers::
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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: dreystarke@aol.com (DreyStarke)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 17:07:21 EDT

E,

That was not an attack. Also, I didn't say you didn't try, but you made the condition worse.

All needed to say,




~ Drey D'erest FACE="Lucida Blackletter" LANG="0">Sanchez Starke ~

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: dreystarke@aol.com (DreyStarke)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 17:07:21 EDT

E,

That was not an attack. Also, I didn't say you didn't try, but you made the condition worse.

All needed to say,




~ Drey D'erest FACE="Lucida Blackletter" LANG="0">Sanchez Starke ~

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: sirduel@aol.com (Sir Duel)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 17:09:35 EDT

I tried. I never showed him an unkind face, and I tolerated him for quite some time. In my head, I gave him exactly seven chances..he crossed me and others, and hasn't given me a chance to develop a liking for him. He is a punk..being he has used the term himself to describe himself, and being he wants to act like one, I guess I'm just going to stop with my attentions toward him..I already wasted too much breathe and
ink on him.

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: eagleecore@aol.com (EagleEcore)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 17:47:12 EDT

Drey,

If someone can't take the heat they should get out of the kitchen. I don't care if I made the condition worse, the fool brought it on themselves. I'm not here to pamper idiots who don't even try despite their claims at wanting to try. I see no commitment, I see no respect, I see no desire to understand. Therefore I see no reason to continue trying, I've got more entertaining things to do with my time and energy.

And I am not here to sugar coat for the little kiddies who are afraid of getting their feelings hurt. No sense hiding the obvious or going around people's backs. You may not like what comes out of my mouth or how I say it, but know atleast from me your getting the truth of how I feel and what I think. And if you don't feel like hearing and listening to what I have to say then just move on to the next message left by someone else.

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm

From: qxz137@aol.com (QXZ137)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 18:15:24 EDT

<< I propose our next topic be whether drinking poisoned ale and eating molded bread is an act of rebellion or an act of lunacy.
The topic after that... Fancy dissing after your opponent thrusts: Stupid, or funny?>>
Reverse those choices... the Ale & Bread one is funny, and Fancy Dissing is lunacy.

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:54 pm

From: prlunicorn@aol.com (PrlUnicorn)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 18:59:43 EDT

She reads, " He has faulter's just like everyone else, his are just more idiotic and strange. E insulted him so much, that Tim was telling the caller to cancel his duel so he could
get to duel, E. Caller didn't let it happen, but you can see where my point is. " and tacks up this:

NO ONE should be allowed to cancel a duel with someone else simply to have a grudge match. It's disrespectful to the person they are dueling at the time.

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:54 pm

From: rolandsal@aol.com (Roland Sal)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:04:58 EDT

There is always a place for those duelists who truely wish to learn.

It is called the Dueling Praxeum.


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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:54 pm

From: devilhntrx@aol.com (DevilHntrX)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 23:56:17 EDT

Okay...For once, Var has a point...Insulting the man to his face, or bickering about the idiocy of someone in person is one thing...but actually going into a subject and purposely biching over the subject of wether or not Tim is an idiot, telling of their encounters with him is ludicrous! Let's just leave it stand and say whatever we have to say to each other...

Thinking with a clear head,
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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:54 pm

From: shadowsiv@aol.com (Shadowsiv)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 02:15:31 EDT

Drake,

For the recod, i did try ta teach him. I tried.

::sighs, tacking his signature on the board beneath his post::

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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:54 pm

From: khrystawlf@aol.com (KhrystaWlf)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 18:20:29 EDT

>Quite simply...
>
> How many of you tried to teach him about respect? How many of you tried
>to teach him by example? How many of you showed him any amount of respect
>for the accomplishments he did acheive? How many of you offered a kind word,
>or a gesture of welcome?

Well said, Drake........
I've been saying for as long as I can remember that one of the basic flaws with the *down with the newbie* mentality is that many of the older duelists seem to think that new duelists should know the traditions of honour as soon as they step through the doors of the Arena. They don't bother to anymore to help the young ones learn, they treat them with disdain and disrespect, and then they wonder why the new ones are disrespectful..... never stopping
to think for even a moment that they might have had something to do with it....
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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:55 pm

From: gnrtdrgoon@aol.com (GnrtDrgoon)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 20:20:02 EDT



Don't forget to read the responses, Khrys, darling.

Many smooches,


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Post by DoS Archive » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:55 pm

From: saraelijah@aol.com (SaraElijah)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 22:26:31 EDT

I was always pretty nice to Tim, and he was never rude to me. Just a little annoying when he beat me once, but that goes for most boys around here.

Sara E
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