Jon Niese Throws Perfect Game

Wow, it sure is hot in NY/NJ today.

Dave, how's the weather in NC?

Oh, my. Four more pink-bars from the trolling--and I'm sure ranting and raving--LakeView Dave and the trolling Robert LaTorre. I love when people remind me why I have them on ignore. However, it is truly pathetic when someone posts about their pitcher's perfect game, and trolls like Dave and LaTorre come on to just rant, rave, stir up conflict, and hijack the thread. And it's ironic they do it when rational adulthood was being discussed. What children.

Thanks, Turtle, for being the only polite one to come on this thread. I, myself am done with it and won't be coming back. The perfect game was still awesome, though...

He keeps it consistent, when the going gets tough, he quits.

Time for a public service announcement:

L.Strether is the name of the male protagonist of one of Henry James's "late" novels. Earlier in his career, James wrote in a more accessible style, but eventually his style became extremely complex and difficult. L. Strether's posts are essentially a weak parody of James's style. L. Strether is not a person -- it (not "he") is a persona. Yes, there is an actual human being who types his posts, but his whole point is that he is creating an online "character." It has nothing to do with him. Everyone here should understand that ... and stop bothering with it. He invented a character -- a snooty, obnoxious, contentious, unpleasant character who writes in a pseudo-ornate "fancy" style -- who has nothing to do with him, necessarily, as a person. Was he a teacher, as he says? Maybe -- but that would be the person typing the posts, not the fictional "L. Strether" who signs them.

Seriously, everybody -- I'm right about this. Please take it to heart when you read these posts by a fictional character invented by the person(s) who type(s) the posts. I have no more fear of offending "him" than I do of offending Huckleberry Finn (or, more appropriately, Tom Sawyer). And I block "him," because it's just too tedious and annoying otherwise. This says nothing about the person typing, who might be a wonderful guy; but the persona he has created is a well-known drag (to quote George Harrison in A Hard Day's Night: "She's a drag -- a well-known drag. We turn off the sound when she's on the telly and say rude things").

second removed post (edited for clarity):

generally I'm not interested in what a fictional character has to say unless I've chosen the novel or TV show or movie or play -- Hamlet, yes, very interested in what he has to say ... and even Don Draper

but in the meantime I've thought of a couple more adjectives that must have been on the list when The Typist (as I'll refer to the non-fictional person posting) was creating the fictional character L. Strether: patronizing and pedantic. If you ever want a handy thing to post in response to this fictional character's nit-picking provocations, I suggest the following:

"This is the sort of thing that gives mindless pedantry a bad name." -- Gore Vidal

Wow, it sure is hot in NY/NJ today.

Dave, how's the weather in NC?

Weather is great, just another day in the 90's

Time for a public service announcement:

L.Strether is the name of the male protagonist of one of Henry James's "late" novels. Earlier in his career, James wrote in a more accessible style, but eventually his style became extremely complex and difficult. L. Strether's posts are essentially a weak parody of James's style. L. Strether is not a person -- it (not "he") is a persona. Yes, there is an actual human being who types his posts, but his whole point is that he is creating an online "character." It has nothing to do with him. Everyone here should understand that ... and stop bothering with it. He invented a character -- a snooty, obnoxious, contentious, unpleasant character who writes in a pseudo-ornate "fancy" style -- who has nothing to do with him, necessarily, as a person. Was he a teacher, as he says? Maybe -- but that would be the person typing the posts, not the fictional "L. Strether" who signs them.

Seriously, everybody -- I'm right about this. Please take it to heart when you read these posts by a fictional character invented by the person(s) who type(s) the posts. I have no more fear of offending "him" than I do of offending Huckleberry Finn (or, more appropriately, Tom Sawyer). And I block "him," because it's just too tedious and annoying otherwise. This says nothing about the person typing, who might be a wonderful guy; but the persona he has created is a well-known drag (to quote George Harrison in A Hard Day's Night: "She's a drag -- a well-known drag. We turn off the sound when she's on the telly and say rude things").

second removed post (edited for clarity):

generally I'm not interested in what a fictional character has to say unless I've chosen the novel or TV show or movie or play -- Hamlet, yes, very interested in what he has to say ... and even Don Draper

but in the meantime I've thought of a couple more adjectives that must have been on the list when The Typist (as I'll refer to the non-fictional person posting) was creating the fictional character L. Strether: patronizing and pedantic. If you ever want a handy thing to post in response to this fictional character's nit-picking provocations, I suggest the following:

"This is the sort of thing that gives mindless pedantry a bad name." -- Gore Vidal

It's about time you chimed in, l.duchy didn't get the chance to single you out as he usually does, I was missing all the

Wow, it sure is hot in NY/NJ today.

Dave, how's the weather in NC?

Weather is great, just another day in the 90's

The humidity is bad up here right now, all kinds of heat advisory's being broadcasted.

Steve, how is it in your neck of the woods?