Re: General Reply To All (Unfortunate Events In RinkChat)
Wormwood, on host 64.180.57.45
Friday, December 8, 2000, at 21:36:23
General Reply To All (Unfortunate Events In RinkChat) posted by Sam on Friday, December 8, 2000, at 17:23:28:
> Wormwood. Wormwood's situation is different than Morris in a crucial way. Morris was annoyed by BEER and BUTT but didn't show it and in actuality joked about things throughout the whole episode, including after Wormwood and Morris were mock-accused of being the frat boys. With Wormwood, the accusation was the primary point at which his annoyance started. I will be addressing Wormwood's reaction in a separate reply to his own contribution to this thread, and so I will only say here that I think he was being very humorless and overreactive in his handling of the situation. Had Wormwood went with the flow and joked around about it instead of being indignant about it, things would have turned out differently. When I realized Wormwood was going to be steadfastly offended instead of becoming a collaborator in the improvisation, I deliberately shifted my accusations away from Wormwood and toward Wes, instead, who was not so indignant about it and eventually started playing along.
I played along FROM THE START. This is something crucial that I think is being ignored.
When BEER and BUTT first came in, I figured I could add to the fun by coming on to both of them as a flaming homosexual. Maybe that was misguided. However, I did this twice, and got no response. Then, as I recall, I stopped making converation (aside from a few sparse comments) until I was blamed.
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