From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Merrick Baldelli wrote:   
   >> Wickeddoll   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> ...and they made a TON of money doing that, so what has the audience   
   >>>>> taught them?   
   >>>> Jealous?   
   >>> .Missing the point much?     
   >>>   
   >> Ya know, Merrick, I was actually glad to see your name here, but I see    
   >> you're just as friendly as the last time I spoke with you.  I've    
   >> actually missed you; you can be a very clever, insightful guy, but you    
   >> hang on to negative feelings so long, there is no fix for it.   
   >    
   > .Uh, suffice it to say that I called this one pretty damned   
   > accurately (given Mac comments after this) and that you had attempted   
   > to pass off a passive-aggressive snide remark as a joke...  Something   
   > you're well known for doing when you're trying to make light of   
   > something you cannot formulate an accurate rebuttal for...  And   
   > further, this whole "holding on to the past grudge" clap-trap is   
   > nothing more than a smoke screen you're hoping to cover up the fact   
   > that I took you by surprise by remarking at all on.     
   >    
   > .Perhaps Natalie -- you should stick to what you know best, and   
   > that's being an adoring fan of all things Trek like you have in the   
   > past and leave the psychoanalysis to those that actually have degrees   
   > in the field.  Because if I were holding on to any grudge from the   
   > past, I assure you I would've taken a stick to you in the same manner   
   > I take a stick to Gisele La Roche (when she not-so-mysteriously evades   
   > my killfile) or Turdpackinmomma when she comes slithering out of her   
   > sewer hole in alt.star-trek.     
   > .Finally it is in my not so humble estimation you should weigh   
   > and reign in your issues carefully, instead of attempting to project   
   > them onto someone that knows you better than you know them.     
   >    
   > [rest snipped]   
      
   Thanks.  I really appreciate social advice from a man who alienated an    
   entire group of people he's known for years. Trek Cabal - remember?    
   That group *you* formed?   
      
   I guess it's *our* hangups that caused that debacle as well, while the    
   totally mentally healthy Merrick could only pity us.  We didn't need    
   your condescending insults then, and we've managed to live our lives    
   rather well without them now.   
      
   And you're still doing what *you* do best.  Stepping in to criticize    
   without even trying view things in context.  You haven't posted here for    
     a long time (that I've seen), Mac himself didn't have a problem after    
   I *admitted* I misspoke - he let it go - maybe deep down he thinks it's    
   a "smokescreen" too, but at least he was mature enough to accept my    
   *apology* (which you conveniently overlooked) at face value.   
      
   Last I knew, *you* didn't have a psychology degree either, but even if    
   you do, I know it's not common practice to insult your "patients".   
      
   But, since fighting with you was really old 10 years ago, It's downright    
   nauseating now.   
      
   Keep on slamming me all you want - I know that's your favorite activity,    
   and I have long since put no value in your opinion of me (or really    
   anything) anymore.   
      
   However, I really will continue to miss the "old" Merrick; the    
   bitchy-funny, incredibly witty man you were, and I'll choose to remember    
   *him*.  I'll purge this misanthropic, mean-spirited, and deeply    
   narcissistic being you have become.   
      
   Natalie   
   --    
   "Wicked little doll, you have no soul"   
   (David Byrne, 1997)   
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