[Groop] Groop Digest, complaints, criticism, and pirates.

[Rick Loomis]

At 09:45 PM 3/7/06, you wrote:

>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:45:43 -0600
>From: "promethea" <promethea at kc.rr.com>
>Subject: Re: [Groop] Groop  Post Padding
>To: <Chris.Emmett at uk.standardchartered.com>, <groop at groo.com>
>Message-ID: <002b01c6426b$2a5e6100$b601a8c0 at TOSHIBA>
>Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
>
><snip>
>
>Admittedly it was not a great joke, but then, this is the Groop...
>
>
>Why Rick chose my post - one of the smallest recent posts [and easily one of
>the shortest that day] to single out for his criticism might be an
>interesting question - odd no one has raised it...

As I explained to you in a private message, I did not single you out. 
I was responding to everyone and had to quote something. I randomly 
grabbed one. Yours seemed appropriate somehow (and I don't keep 
copies, so I don't remember exactly what were the words.


>Also, there were several
>huge ones that only replied to a part of the quoted material; all those
>escaped venom, though, and no alarms went off.

Venom?  I thought I was extremely polite, merely making a mild 
request. I have noted in the past that if I don't say anything, the 
posts tend to get longer and longer and longer...


>For my part, I'll offer Rick my abject apology and perhaps killfile for a
>while.  Funny no one has asked if I get digests or single posts ... not that
>total volume would be much different...  getting single posts seems a simple
>solution for folks who think a digest is too difficult to d/l.

No apology necessary. And I apologize for telling Groo that you 
called him a mendicant. Since we don't post our addresses, he'll 
probably never find you anyway.


As for when/why I like Groo, I can't remember!  I remember reading 
Mad magazine back in the late 50's early 60's, and really liking 
Sergio's work. And I seem to remember reading the early editions of 
Groo when they first came out. I mostly quit reading (or at least 
buying) comics when they went up in price from ten cents to fifteen 
cents each, but somewhere along the way I kept reading Groo. (Or am I 
dating myself now?) (And how one dates oneself I don't know. At least 
it's cheaper than dating a girl -- you only have to buy one movie 
ticket and you get to eat all the popcorn.)
Rick
Not a pirate.

Flying Buffalo Inc  www.flyingbuffalo.com
PO Box 1467, Scottsdale, AZ 85252
480-945-6917 fax 480-994-1170