I had told Jim Strong that he was full of it but the expression seemed so anodyne and unlikely to give offense

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Jon Ford wrote:

> Wayne and Gerry: Since you don't read my posts, I can feel free to call
you
> a couple of jerks. Cowards too. If Mike got such an email as he describes
> here, insulting his wife, etc., he would clearly have a right to be upset.
> The cowards on the Jim Strong list consistently insult Mike behind his
back,
> calling him insane, etc. I used to think Mike was a bit rash, but he
> certainly is no more vicious, belittling, and wacko than you two!

Jon,

Thanks for defending me. But I don't think you have ever
even met Wayne Johnson and may never have met Gerry
Storm likewise.

Wayne is an old and dear and respectful friend of mine
and my wife and his fictional "explanations" or spoofs of
me and other things are consistently amusing. As for
how heavy handed he has been in speaking of me in
a forum to which I am not subscribed, I doubt that it is
much different from the way he writes when he knows
I will read it.

Jim Baldauf was introduced to ghettoites by Roger.
Once he forgot himself and was rather nasty about
me in a spoof posted to agl where I could read it.
When I wrote to him off list in remonstrance, he
apologized profusely. So I can well imagine that
he let's himself go full tilt on Jim Strong's doppelgaenger
maillist ghetto2. I've met him a few times at reunions
and face to face he has been unfailingly polite. If
that's not the case behind my back, well it's a free
country.

I did not know Gerry very well at all but we were
fellow patrons of Fletcher Boone's Raw Deal, that
being the west Sixth street branch of Fletcher's
bar empire. If he laughs at Wayne's revelation of
the LEGUME conspiracy, he may well. I did. I don't
remember him ever taking up cudgels against
one of my viewpoints on agl. Some subscribers
gave him a hard enough time so as to drive him
away for awhile but eventually he came back.
I miss his vivid descriptions of events in the back
country in New Mexico which he used to post here,
I dont miss his advice what diet and drug regimen
everyone should follow which advice no doubt he is
dispensing without a license on JSDGMLG2.

I dont know if Gerry has been speaking bad of me
behind my back. Maybe, maybe not.

As for Jim Strong, Simmons, Ted Samsel, they
really REALLY do not like me one little bit. Likewise
Fontaine which I think may have something to do
with my having been taken to California by her
mother Terrelita in 1983 and what a trip that was!

And Jon, as for your posts being blocked by
other subscribers, this may have been threatened
but it is hard to do with maillists, since your mail
comes from the maillist's address, not yours.
Depends on how the maillist is set up.

Mike