Dear Frank, We have a Rumpelstilskin-like black fairy at this party who (as far as I can tell) got a sort of bad Nietzschean idea in his head that getting people mad is somehow a fruitful way of interacting, and so delights in childishly making a range of not very subtle, and not friendly digs at people here. Since most Mudcatters (including Kat) have good antennae for jokes made in fun, and also those made with malevolent intent, we have basically been taking the oxygen away from this particular fire by trying to ignore its crumminess. It appears that the person, if it is he, who was warned off this kind of behaviour previously after he started spraying Nazi rhetoric around (ain't confrontation grand!), has taken to trying new names with real subtlety like Horst. It goes in waves: sometimes we think some attempt to be reasonable returns, and then it sours again. We don't know why, and no longer really care. It is just annoying. Don't waste your eyeballs on this thread any further. There are better rooms in this boarding house. (
yours, Peter T.