Jeff, don't be so hard on yourself.  We all know what a pain in the arse ye
are. No need to apologize. ;-)

At 01:55 AM 1/7/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Stole this from another list, but I think it is just as relevant to this
>one:
>
>>  "Somebody named Paul O'Neill wrote the following (with apologies to W.S.
>>Gilbert) and posted it at rec.music.opera.
>>
>>"I am the very model of a Newsgroup Personality I intersperse obscenity
>>with tedious banality. Addresses I have plenty of, both genuine and
>>ghosted to, On all the countless newsgroups that my drivel is
>>cross-posted to.
>>
>>Your bandwidth I will fritter with my whining and my snivelling, And
>>you're the one who pays the bill downloading all my drivelling. My
>>enemies are numerous, and no one would be blaming you For thinking me a
>>dickhead after I've been rudely flaming you.
>>
>>I hate to lose an argument (by now I should be used to it). I wouldn't
>>know a valid point if I was introduced to it. My learning is extensive
>>but consists of mindless trivia, Designed to fan my ego, which is larger
>>than Bolivia.
>>
>>The comments that I vomit forth, disguised as jest and drollery, Are
>>really just an exercise in unremitting trollery. I say I'm frank and
>>forthright, but that's merely lies and vanity, The gibberings of one
>>who's at the limit of his sanity.
>>
>>If only I could get a life, as many people tell me to; If only mum could
>>find a circus freak-show she could sell me to; If I go off to Zanzibar
>>to paint the local scenery; If I lose all my fingers in a mishap with
>>machinery;
>>
>>If I survive to forty, which is somewhat problematical; If what I post
>>was more mature, or slightly more grammatical; If I could learn to spell
>>a bit, and maybe even punctuate; Would I still be the loathsome and
>>objectionable prat you hate?
>>
>>But while I have this tiresome urge to prance around and show my face,
>>It's simply isn't safe for normal people here in cyberspace. To stick me
>>in Old Sparky and turn on the electricity Would be a fitting punishment
>>for my egocentricity.
>>
>>I always have the last word; so, with utmost finality, That's all from
>>me, the model of a Newsgroup Personality"