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[firecat]

In high school, I had a wonderful Latin teacher, a sharp little white-haired lady named Miss Ferguson.

(I took Latin class with Jeffrey Eugenides, who is now a famous author. Teachers rather like Miss Ferguson appear briefly in his books The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.)

When students got a little too rambunctious in her class, Miss Ferguson would stand up very straight and snap

"Infants!"

It always worked to get our attention—I think the slight absurdity of that word allowed it to slide right in and strike our self-consciousness centers.

I wish I could sic Miss Ferguson on alt.poly right now.

Comments

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the fishie...

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Getting the voice-of-command thing working via text, though... that's the trick.

Hm. Do you think doing it in latin would help?

[opus119.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at alt.poly in years, but it sounds like it hasn't changed much. My guess is that jimbat still has that stick up his butt that makes him smarter than anybody else.

[snippy]

You're probably right, but almost nobody responds to him anyway. He's not the problem this time.

[brooksmoses]

Personally, while I found him annoying, I never minded him that much, and I do have a very tiny feeling of "Hey, I missed you!" when he shows up after an absence.

I'd definitely trade the current problems for another Jimbat. If they wouldn't multiply by talking to each other, I mean. Maybe even if they would.

[firecat]

Jimbat could be killfiled, but if I used a killfile on this current problem, there wouldn't be any posts left to read.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Yikes...

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

I wish I could sic Miss Ferguson on alt.poly right now.

I'm not reading alt.poly right now, but BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Yes.
Very yes.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to attempt to pull a Miss Ferguson, just to see what would happen

But I think (if I have read all the posts correctly) that people have started to realize that they have been being wankers.

[firecat]

It's looking that way. I hope so.

Is alt.poly about love or something

[xf85goblin.livejournal.com]

Try convincing her to expand her romantic horizons or take on a fetish for self-abuse.