From carsond@oak.cats.ohiou.edu Sat Sep 2 11:03:49 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA119362 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:03:48 -0700 Received: from oak.cats.ohiou.edu (root@oak.cats.ohiou.edu [132.235.8.44]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA12828 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:03:48 -0700 Received: from [132.235.204.73] (dhcp-204-073.cns.ohiou.edu [132.235.204.73]) by oak.cats.ohiou.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22003 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:03:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 14:03:14 -0600 Subject: Re: The Sotiropoulos Case (was Re: Marcus Aurelius, etc.) From: Scott Carson To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <003e01c0147f$c54e0280$5c140dd0@t9q0o0> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit People who have so much trouble locating the "delete" function of their email program probably ought to avoid using email. On 9/1/00 7:47 PM, Michael Hendry at curculio@glasscity.net wrote: > Mr. Sotiropoulos' campaign to turn the Classics list into the Sotiropoulos > list has now entered its third week. Silence has not worked: he seems not > to have noticed that we are all doing our best to ignore his silly posts as > far as humanly possible. (On Monday, he even replied to the same message > twice in much the same terms, apparently hoping to draw a response.) Ed > Menes' polite remonstrance was met with yet another incoherent string of > insults. Zeus is apparently off dining with the Ethiopians, and we are on > our own until she returns. Ostracism has just been suggested, not for the > first time, by Jeffrey Gibson. > > Perhaps it is time to try a new tactic and make him our *pharmakos*. Mr. > Sotiropoulos has confessed more than once that he derives pleasure from > posts to the list that cause only pain (or disgust) to others. I suggest > that disgruntled listmembers -- that's just about all of us by now -- give > him a taste of his own medicine by indulging in cruel laughter at his > expense. After all, we already do plenty of that off-list. > > To get things rolling, here are some Sotiroropoulos riddles. > > 1. If a Sotiropoulos went back to ancient Greece in a time machine, what > kind of fruit or vegetable would the locals most likely offer him? > > a. apples > b. pears > c. peaches > d. artichokes > e. radishes > > Perhaps a little too obvious. With different choices, it could be a fish > joke. > > 2. If Sotiropoulitis were a disease, what would be the symptoms? > > Severe logorrhea unaccompanied by any trace of logos. > > (What the Classics list really needs right now is a total Sotiropoulectomy.) > > 3. What would be the most appropriate syllogism to explain Mr. Sotiropoulos' > behavior? Here's my contribution. Can anyone top it? > > Socrates was a great philosopher. > Socrates was so offensive to his fellow citizens that they executed him. > Sotiris Sotiropoulos is grossly and willfully and repeatedly offensive to > his fellows. > Therefore Sotiropoulos is a philosopher -- perhaps even a great one! > > Michael Hendry > Department of Romance Languages > 203 Shatzel Hall > Bowling Green State University > Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0230 > Telephone: (419) 372-2667 > Fax: (419) 372-7332 > E-mail: curculio@glasscity.net > Web-page: http://www.curculio.org > .