This is a lie and we both know it. You are a perfect example of why people choose to be anonymous. You have hounded me for years to identify myself and you have tried to out me when you thought you knew my real name.
People are free to call themselves whatever they choose but I think it is particularly dangerous for women to identify themselves online. I don't mind people using psuedonyms. What I find annoying is people who engage in an obvious alter ego online. I'm surrounded with enough phonies and poseurs in my "offline" life.
Yes, I do know your name and, a few years back, I used it on another BBS when you became particularly offensive and reported a fellow poster to his ISP and, I believe, the FBI. It was right after 9/11 and he had sent you (and many of us) a patriotic poem, inspired by that tragedy. Perhaps I shouldn't have dropped your mask (anyway, you say that I didn't), but your cyber behavior became so outrageous that I thought dropping yourt mask might stop you--obviously, it didn't. I have never called you "Whiny Day," as I have seen on JC, but I have to be honest and say that it fits you well. I have never hounded you, much less "for years," but you are a paranoid sort. In fact, I once sent you a PM suggesting that we not make our differences personal. That olive branch was received with a frosty remark, and you obviously took it and chewed it up.
If you (or anyone else) went back and took a good look at your various outbursts, I think it would be plain as day that you periodically fly off the handle (so to speak) and have a hissy fit that only you seem to understand.
I remember well what caused your first barrage of epithets aimed in my direction, it was when someone had started a thread asking for lines overheard from an exiting concert audience.
Explaining this this was not something I personally had overheard, but that I thought it might be interesting, I related a story told me by Lil Armstrong. When King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (of which she was a member) played a California concert, in 1921, the wife of one of the musicians overheard a black member of the exiting audience say to his wife or girlfriend, "Calling themselves Creole, they ain't nothing but niggers!"
Well, my dear, you hit the ceiling and called me a racist and whatever else you could think of. And when our fellow posters thought you were over-reacting, your eruptions escalated.
Was I a racist for telling Lil's story? Was Lil a racist for telling it to me? Was the audience member a racist for making the remark?
Sorry about the above, but I really think you asked for it.
And my apologies to you, Jim, the board has enough of this sort of thing without me contributing to it--but sometimes, you know, some people.....
thank you both...