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From: Las Vegas Don on 5 Aug 2010 15:31
On Aug 5, 6:31 am, "Ace*" <blackstu...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never quite understood the Don Strevel phenomenon. Maybe someone
> can explain it to me.
> The man is a kook. Plain and simple. He's a kook and he therefore
> writes kooky things. It's like his job. Mind you, I'm not really using
> "kook" as a pejorative, because I consider myself a kook. Although I'm
> not half the kook Don is.
>
> But what's far kookier than Don's kookiness, is the kooky way people
> react to his posts.
>
> The guy is a kook. Kooks are not supposed to write things that are on
> topic or accurate.
> "On topic" and "accurate" are antonyms of "kook". To expect Don to
> write anything normal, would be like expecting JRogow to start writing
> like a kook.
> The complaints I read are so asinine. "Don, you complain about off
> topic posts and then you make off topic posts". What the hell else
> would you expect from a kook? You people are idiots. Don is just doing
> what he was placed in avlv to do. We all have our assigned roles.
>
> A*

What is most interesting is that people usually "give to others" what
they perceive in themselves.

Making an off topic post about an off topic post is...you guessed it,
an off topic post! hahahaha. One side note tho that people sometimes
forget, most of what yu read in the newsgroup is different
personalities of the same person or people agreeing with themselves.
Compound sentences confound them, double negative...it goes over their
heads. What do yaz do??
From: Las Vegas Don on 5 Aug 2010 15:32
On Aug 5, 6:31 am, "Ace*" <blackstu...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never quite understood the Don Strevel phenomenon. Maybe someone
> can explain it to me.
> The man is a kook. Plain and simple. He's a kook and he therefore
> writes kooky things. It's like his job. Mind you, I'm not really using
> "kook" as a pejorative, because I consider myself a kook. Although I'm
> not half the kook Don is.
>
> But what's far kookier than Don's kookiness, is the kooky way people
> react to his posts.
>
> The guy is a kook. Kooks are not supposed to write things that are on
> topic or accurate.
> "On topic" and "accurate" are antonyms of "kook". To expect Don to
> write anything normal, would be like expecting JRogow to start writing
> like a kook.
> The complaints I read are so asinine. "Don, you complain about off
> topic posts and then you make off topic posts". What the hell else
> would you expect from a kook? You people are idiots. Don is just doing
> what he was placed in avlv to do. We all have our assigned roles.
>
> A*

I have been around here 25 years or so. Whada ya expect, that I would
take this place seriously!

Don
From: Steve Kucera on 5 Aug 2010 15:38
On 2010-08-05, Las Vegas Don <dstrevel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I enjoyed our meeting. The tea was great and it was an even
> greater pleasure to meet with Kurt.

I've met Kurt and agree that he is better than tea.





From: Rob Taylor on 5 Aug 2010 19:20
On Aug 5, 12:32 pm, Las Vegas Don <dstre...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have been around here 25 years or so.  Whada ya expect, that I would
> take this place seriously!
>
> Don

Most impressive, considering that the USENET alt.* hierarchy didn't
even exist 25 years ago, let alone this newsgroup, and there aren't
archives predating the 1990's.

Rob "Fancypants" Taylor
From: Ace* on 5 Aug 2010 19:36
On Aug 5, 7:13 am, Chef Kurt <k...(a)kurtopia.net> wrote:
> On Aug 5, 5:31 am, "Ace*" <blackstu...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've never quite understood the Don Strevel phenomenon. Maybe someone
> > can explain it to me.
> > The man is a kook. Plain and simple. He's a kook and he therefore
> > writes kooky things. It's like his job.
>
> Ace*, because of the kooky way Strebel writes and rants, it is fun to
> poke back at him. He asks for it.

I'm all for the fun poking and I'm sure he is too. But there's
difference between that and people actually getting their panties in a
bunch - needless to say.

> On another note, I had iced tea with Don in the coffee shop at Red
> Rock Casino just after it opened. In person Don was very different
> than he comes across here. He is well spoken, articulate and chooses
> his words well...all without ranting. He didn't care to talk about
> AVLV either. Nothing against Don, but I haven't met up with him since
> as we are very different and he's just not the kind of person I hang
> out with.
>
> But man, when he goes on and on here, it's a lot of fun to hassle
> him.  LOL

Don is a poet. And hassling him playfully is part and parcel. But too
many people have taken what's supposed to be fun and gotten dead
serious and or downright ugly about it. That's the part I've never
gotten.

A*
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