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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[I am the Major General]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Found on &quot;/index.pl?node=usenet&quot;, bearing the headers: <br />Which I found on <a href="http://www.everything2.com">www.everything2.com</a><br />&nbsp; &nbsp;From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0@hate.spam.net)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;Subject: Re: THANK GOD for the crackpots <br />&nbsp; &nbsp;Newsgroups: sci.physics<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;Date: 2001-03-01 17:24:05 PST <br />I am told (thanks, Demeter&quot;!) the author and original poster was Tom Holt</p><p>(Gilbert &amp; Sullivan&#039;s&nbsp; “The Major General Song” )<br />I am the very model of a Newsgroup personality.<br />I intersperse obscenity with tedious banality<br />Addresses I have plenty of, both genuine and ghosted too,<br />On all the countless newsgroups that my drivel is cross-posted to.<br />Your bandwith I will fritter with my whining and my snivelling,<br />And you&#039;re the one who pays the bill, downloading all my drivelling.<br />My enemies are numerous, and no one would be blaming you<br />For cracking my head open after I&#039;ve been rudely flaming you.</p><p>I hate to lose an argument(by now I should be used to it).<br />I wouldn&#039;t know a valid point if I were introduced to it.<br />My learning is extensive but consists of mindless trivia<br />Designed to fan my ego which is larger than Bolivia The comments that I vomit forth, disguised as jest&nbsp; and drollery,<br />Are really just an exercise in unremitting trollery.<br />I say I&#039;m frank and forthright, but that&#039;s merely lies and vanity.<br />The gibberings of one who&#039;s at the limits of his sanity.<br />If only I could get a life as many people tell me to;<br />If only Mom could find a circus freak-show she could sell me to;<br />If I go off to Zanzibar to paint the local scenery;<br />If I lose all my fingers in a mishap with machinery<br />If I survive to twenty, which is somewhat problematical;<br />If what I post was more mature, or slightly more grammatical;<br />If I could learn to spell a bit, and maybe even punctuate;<br />Would I still be the loathsome and objectionable punk you hate?</p><p>But while I have this tiresome urge to prance around and show my face.<br />It simply isn&#039;t safe for normal people here in cyberspace. To stick me in&nbsp; Old Sparky and turn on the electricity<br />Would be a fitting punishment for tasteless crass duplicity I always have the last word; so, with uttermost finality,<br />That&#039;s all from me, the model of a Newsgroup personality.</p>]]></content>
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