Re: Troll appeal (was Re: prime numbers and African artifact)

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (dmckiern@weber.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 17 Jul 1995 18:27:55 -0700

On 17 Jul 1995 Nick.Kew@plod.esrin.esa.it wrote:

> STOP IT!!!
>
> Why do you folks all have it in for trolls?
>
> I know there are few of us left today, and our presence on the Internet is
> negligible. But this racial stereotyping is frankly unacceptable!
>
> We are not a race of practical jokers. We are not any more likely than
> other people to deceive and ensnare the innocent. You may think us old-
> fashioned, but we enjoy simple pleasures, and mean no harm to our fellow
> creatures. We are not bad; we are just mythologically challenged!

Ha! Normally I'm all for tolerance, but I have =yet= to meet a
troll that didn't conform to what =you= would call "stereotyping".
I don't attack =any= of the peaceful creatures; I pacify -- rather
than kill -- all of the bellicose dogs and cats; I leave sleeping
nymphs alone; I contribute =all= of my gold at =every= temple.

But what happens when I meet a troll? Immediately it's hitting and
biting! Once, I socked a troll hard enough that it went away, and I
let it do so. Did it learn its lesson? No; as soon as it'd had
some time to collect itself, it came charging back to bite and hit
again.

So =enough= of this PC bull____ about trolls. Each and every one of
you is scum. I'd say that the only good troll is a =dead= troll,
but, then, a troll corpse can turn back into a live troll, so even
a =dead= troll can be NFG!

I will agree with you on one thing: You're not a race of practical
jokers. You're TFS for that!

It's always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness.

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (619) 535 - 0546
athanatos@UCSD.edu 132.239.147.2 <75013,676>