Diane Arons
2004-08-05 18:24:01 UTC
Has anyone else noticed that Lyle Blake hasn't exactly been on the
same wavelength as the rest of us lately?
Lyle has always doggy-paddled down in the shallow end of the gene pool
but in the last few weeks he's been floundering! As arguments
containing Nietzschian philosophies, biology vs. sociology themes and
gender queer theory zoom about the newsgroups and apparently just over
Lyle's pointy little noggin', he seems to be left with no other
rhetorical device then to stare open-mouthed at the participants and
blubber, "You're Diane!"
Oh, how the mighty kooks have fallen! Where once a Lyle Blake/Masters
could throw a newsgroup into an unrelenting months-long flame war, now
L.B. is reduced to sitting on the sidelines alongside a small army of
battered sock-puppetes mumbling invectives along with the occasional,
almost reflexive, "You're Diane!" while the rest of the newsgroup
snickers not so silently to themselves.
And Lyle seems utterly oblivious to all of this. Without insight that
he is being mocked. Without understanding that he's not quite tuned
in to the rest of us. His only reply and contribution to all the
discussion at large being, "You're Diane!" What is making him act
this way? Advancing age ? New medications or perhaps the lack of?
Or perhaps he's just given up?
A 13 year history of trolling and promotion of kook philosophies is
quite possibly the longest running gambit on Usenet. Archimedes
Plutonium lasted not nearly as long as has Lyle. It's a pity that
Lyle specialized in being a transgendered kook because ironically we
rarely get the recognition we deserve as most of the male-centric,
homophobic Usenet haute culture tends to disdain such things. It's a
pity though because right here, in our own ..homeland.. as it were, we
likely have the most prolific Usenet kook that has ever existed. By
comparison, Lyle puts such pundits as Ed (astrology-boy) Wollerman
back into the relms of rankest amateur.
And now...the days of LD Blake appear to be on the decline, with only
the vaguest sounds of "...you're ...diane...." fading away into the
winds of time.
Is this the end of L.D. Blake ?
same wavelength as the rest of us lately?
Lyle has always doggy-paddled down in the shallow end of the gene pool
but in the last few weeks he's been floundering! As arguments
containing Nietzschian philosophies, biology vs. sociology themes and
gender queer theory zoom about the newsgroups and apparently just over
Lyle's pointy little noggin', he seems to be left with no other
rhetorical device then to stare open-mouthed at the participants and
blubber, "You're Diane!"
Oh, how the mighty kooks have fallen! Where once a Lyle Blake/Masters
could throw a newsgroup into an unrelenting months-long flame war, now
L.B. is reduced to sitting on the sidelines alongside a small army of
battered sock-puppetes mumbling invectives along with the occasional,
almost reflexive, "You're Diane!" while the rest of the newsgroup
snickers not so silently to themselves.
And Lyle seems utterly oblivious to all of this. Without insight that
he is being mocked. Without understanding that he's not quite tuned
in to the rest of us. His only reply and contribution to all the
discussion at large being, "You're Diane!" What is making him act
this way? Advancing age ? New medications or perhaps the lack of?
Or perhaps he's just given up?
A 13 year history of trolling and promotion of kook philosophies is
quite possibly the longest running gambit on Usenet. Archimedes
Plutonium lasted not nearly as long as has Lyle. It's a pity that
Lyle specialized in being a transgendered kook because ironically we
rarely get the recognition we deserve as most of the male-centric,
homophobic Usenet haute culture tends to disdain such things. It's a
pity though because right here, in our own ..homeland.. as it were, we
likely have the most prolific Usenet kook that has ever existed. By
comparison, Lyle puts such pundits as Ed (astrology-boy) Wollerman
back into the relms of rankest amateur.
And now...the days of LD Blake appear to be on the decline, with only
the vaguest sounds of "...you're ...diane...." fading away into the
winds of time.
Is this the end of L.D. Blake ?