On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:54:24 -0400, Gogarty
wrote:

In article ,
says...


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Has this group been totally taken over by trolls?

I'm just going clip-clop, clip-clop over the bridge. The trolls don't
bother me. They'll get my big brother who's coming along behind.

Besides, this group fulfills an important social function for the
betterment of society apart from its use as a great boating forum.
Without the benefits of socialised medicine as is available in
Australia and New Zealand whereby mental illness is treated at the
public expense; and without this group to focus his Walter Mitty
existance upon, Americans like Wilbur, aka the self appointed Captain,
would be sitting staring at the bulkhead of his imaginary Swan 68 (he
had an imaginary friend as a child) until one day, he would take the
gun that he so loudly exclaims is his constitutional right to possess,
and start shooting people in a shopping mall.

Also, he, without knowing it, makes me feel positively buoyant
whenever feelings of depression and self-doubt creep over the horizon
as it does to all on occassion. All I have to do is to read one of his
oft supercilious and vitriolic posts and say to myself " It could be
worse. At least I'm not an insignificant little man like Wilbur who
hates everyone including himself. There but for the grace of God go
I".

Allah Akbar!!! (God is great)

Peter