[sumo] [List Admin] OT, and Proud of it! Drop the whole thing, Now that the Monkey's Involved

[Bob Reimer]

This incident has even made the New York Times!

September 13th article .... Sock Puppet Bites Man

Regards,
Kofuji
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com 
> [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf Of Charles Finberg, Esq.
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:19 AM
> To: sumo at webtrek.com
> Subject: Re: [sumo] [List Admin] OT, and Proud of it! Drop 
> the whole thing,Now that the Monkey's Involved
> 
> It has not gone unnoticed in some quarters that people blat 
> on endlessly, meaninglessly, without threats of censorship, 
> until a certain little imaginary sock monkey starts to squirt 
> his, well, incendiary liquid on a conflagration.  Then the 
> suppressin' starts, revealing the grotesque face of 
> anti-pseudo-hominidism with which the whole human race is 
> imbued.  No one, of any color, race, nationality, creed or 
> religion, is really happy until they stuff a sock in a sock puppet!
>    
>   Thus is a fractured world united by its abuse of the 
> harmless and woollen.
>    
>   But, what you don't recognize is that it's the extravagance 
> of the sock monkey which actually delivers peace in the first 
> place.  Check it out!  Every time things are falling apart, 
> the sock monkey's on the scene!  He acts boldly, decisively!  
> And only in the quiet which follows each of his shrewd 
> interventions -- and here you can picture him looking exactly 
> like Toshiro Mifune, striding through the center of this 
> online village -- does some functionary figurehead scurry up 
> behind him, coincidentally, to announce that order shall be restored.
>    
>   Consider, though, that if you block the sock monkey's 
> e-mails, you're going to start getting a lot of spam from his 
> attorney, Barney.
>    
>   -- Kaiopectate, the All-Talk Sock Monkey