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ANDREW OF AMERICA's Netiquette Helpful Hint #73

What follows is one of the first AOA postings to endear ANDREW
a cult-like following.  Everyone has experienced violations of decorum
on the  internet.  More often than not, rather than turn the other cheek,
we just get cheeky in return.  That this hit home with readers was evidenced
by a mailbox full of fanmail the following day.

GAYNET HELPFUL HINT #73
(C) 1993, 1996 ANDREW OF AMERICA
Why just quote TWELVE paragraphs of your opponents ramblings

W h e n    y o u   c a n   q u o t e   e v e r y   i n c o h e r e n t

  t h i n g    t h e y    e v e r   w r o t e   o n    G A Y N E T?

That's right, for A LTD. TIME ONLY you can subscribe to QUEERNUTS
the only service that catalogues every halfbaked, nitwitted remark
internetters make!  Easily catalogued for your flamethrowing pleasure!

Just imagine being able to slap around a fellow netter like this:

"Oh, yeah, Adrian?  I guess you forgot this little inane comment from
December of 1991?"

	<Betty Crocker = Adolf Hitler

or what about when you asked on July 14, 1992:

	<Hey, isn't July 14 when the French celebrate Pastel Day? No wonder
	<they call it Gay Paree!

"You see, Adrian, you are a worthless idiot."

That's right!  You can enjoy the ecstasy of cerebral smugness to your
intellectual inferiors!

With their foibles at your fingertips you be invincible in brain battle!

JUST IMAGINE when they accuse you of being superficial for writing 15 entries
on Madonna's new cable show, YOU e-mail back 112 screens of their meandering
inquiries about J. Edgar Hoover's fashion sense!

ACT NOW BEFORE MIDNIGHT
And you'll also receive:

*A black list of people who overuse the word "fabulous."

*The happy homo's guide to color swatches: "See, I told ecrue had more green
in it than taupe."

*THE CELEBRITY CLOSET - An exhaustive list of who's queer who's not:
"I told you so, Raymond Burr wasn't gay he was just FAT!

*A book of handy foreign phrases (so no one will know you've not been anywhere
more exotic than the International House of Pancakes):

	"Yes, Jose, the absence of any JOIE DE VIVRE is part of the ZEITGEIST
of this BELLE EPOCH we call the nineties.  But don't overlook that
Kierkegaard's TETE A TETE with the WUNDERKIND Schloppentroff led him to
exclaim "HIMMEL OCH PANKAKA!" which (whatever the LINGUA FRANCA) should
immerse any individual's ANOMIE with a GEMÜTLISCH collective sense of SOBORNOST.

ACT NOW!
DON'T DELAY!
THE MIND YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN!

ANDREW OF AMERICA
Offer expires March 3, 1937
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ANDREW 617 Louisiana Avenue  McComb, MS  39648
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