Re: The Return of Michael Monkey

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:16:44 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

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I live in a very small house that was built in the 1920s.  I like to
think of it as a rustic cottage or a cozy bungalow.  In order to expand
the living space, one of the previous owners finished the basement, and
turned it into a combination kitchen, dining room and bar.  I keep my
computer down there, so when I'm online, I'm technically in the
basement.
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About seven years ago (give or take), my wife sent our youngest child
downstairs to see what I was doing.  He looked over my shoulder while I
was posting something to Usenet AAPC, and shouted up to her "He's
talking to Will Donkey the computer."
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Since the idea of someone conversing with a donkey on computer is funny,
it immediately became a running joke in our house.  "Daddy's talking to
Will Donkey again," etc).
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Since stubbornness is one of your strongest characteristics, I
immediately began addressing you as "Will Donkey" in AAPC as well.
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"Monkey," otoh, came about when Karen Tellefsen wrote a satirical poem
about our endless flame war here, set to the tune of "Pop Goes the
Weasel." "Pop Goes the Weasel," in case you're unfamiliar with it, is a
nursery rhyme about a monkey chasing a weasel around a cobbler's bench.
In her poem, she replaced "Weasel" with "Donkey" (signifying you, as I
had already started calling you "Will Donkey" at that time). She
retained "Monkey" from the original because I often posted under my
backup account here as "Coco DeSockmonkey."

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I remember Coco.
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You and George immediately started calling me "Michael Monkey" as a
result.

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No, I almost always have called you Michael Pendragon, choosing to take
the high road and not dink to your low level of childish insults and
name calling.

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You've been calling me a "Little Green Monkey" for the past week or so,

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Tit for Tat, look it up.

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No kidding, Pee-wee.
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It just counteracts your claim that you "almost always have called (me)
Michael Pendragon."
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There ypu have it: "Will Donkey" came from my son's misreading of your
name on my monitor, and "Michael Monkey" came from Karen's satirical
poem.
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That sounds about right except the animal name calling really goes back
to earlier times.

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Mummy Chunks asked you where the "Monkey Boy" name came from -- not when
calling people by childish animal names began.

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Well, we should start at where it all begins, never mind that you second
handed the idea, Pendragon.

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MummyChunk didn't ask when the childish name-calling began.  They asked
about the origin of "Monkey Boy."
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We should start by answering the actual question that was asked.
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Okay, fair enough, let's do that.

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I did.
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The problem with you is that you lie and misrepresent so much, Michael
Pendragon.

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That simply isn't true, Donkey.
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The problem is that you lack basic vocabulary and composition skills and
are consequently incapable of expressing yourself clearly.
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What you actually write is often very different from what you later
claim you'd intended to say.
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You also seem to think that the bottom of the barrel, sleazy lifestyle
you present yourself as having is something to boast about.
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You cannot blame me, or anyone else, for misrepresenting you.  You have
painted a most unflattering picture of yourself (intentionally and
otherwise).  I am just responding to the things that *you* have said.
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I'll have a look at your response and correct the lies and
misrepresentations and set the record straight.
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After I make myself a cup of coffee and find your original post.

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What "lies" do you expect to find, Donkey?
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Are you going to claim that I don't live in a small house?

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I couldn't care less one way or another.
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That Karen did write a "Pop Goes the Weasel"
inspired poem?

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I don't really remember Karen's poem that well but probably.

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IOW: There weren't any lies or misrepresentations for you to "set
straight."
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The lies and misrepresentations about me that you've posted through the
years I've corrected and set the record straight on to my satisfaction,
Pendragon.
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If you'll refrain from adding new ones we should be good from here on
out.
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HTH and HAND.

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You're fooling yourself, Donkey.
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In this post, there were no lies or misrepresentations for you to
correct.
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When I've asked you for examples of lies from other posts, you only
reply with the cop out answer that you're not going to repeat them.
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The truth has always been that my statements were based *directly* one
posts that you had made or from passages in your autobiographical
material on George Dance's wiki.
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The fact that you might not have intended these posts/autobio entries to
say what they did is beside the point.  Contrary to popular belief, I'm
not a mind reader.  When you fail to express yourself clearly, you
cannot blame others for the misrepresentation.  Your words are the cause
of the misrepresentation -- not your readers.
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The only "malicious" "lies" I've posted about you have been in humorous
pieces like "Ode to My Slurp-puppet" -- which (apart from your having an
actual slurp-puppet in General Zid) no one in their right mind would
ever take seriously.  IOW: I'm mischievous, not malicious; and a lie is
only a lie if it is put forth to fool others into believing it,
otherwise it's just fiction (in the "Slurp-puppet" case, it's merely a
funny poem).
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