Klarinet Archive - Posting 001005.txt from 1999/07

From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Related Topics
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:34:04 -0400

Jay Webler wrote:

> >Any list goes off on tangents, especially in a group as lively as this one.
> > Leave it alone.
> >
> >Ken

> I agree with you on this. However, I do sense a smell of a "Dead Horse" lately when
> I collect my mail form the list.

Agreed, there is a dead horse syndrome around here, as is there is just
about any list (except the flute list?:-). Topics recur, get kicked
around for awhile, then go back into their dormant state until
someone...most often a newbie...brings it up again, generally in
innocence. On Opera-L, which I was on from January 1995 until six
months ago, you could count on an every-six-months return to "Was
Richard Wagner a Nazi?" The argument usually ended after a few weeks of
scholarly discussion, name-calling acrimony, and a couple of huffy
resignations from the list, when someone finally burped and said "Here's
a quarter. Call someone who gives a f--k." And, nota bene, the same
people dove into the fray every blessed time. Analogies? Like a
barroom fight every Saturday night among the same people in the same
saloon, just because everyone gets plastered and likes to fight. Or--a
bit more cynically?--something like an attack of herpes.

I've gotta stop posting at 6:30 in the morning....

Ken

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