"...I am on good terms with more than one freestyle poet - and they're all highly literate."

How absolutely spiffing for you!

As I said, it's endlessly fascinating, etc....

Poirot,

"it's endlessly fascinating, etc...."

Ahh, repetition - the last refuge of the idiot.

vucu..has this endless facination of dna
""OUG The missing link is right under your nose
if you look at some of my references...It is called DNA.

dear
David
you mix your metahores
dna is not any missing link

but heck lets ask the occultlite..
to explain the chemical base pairing..chemicly
but i know even as i say this..no reply to that will be forthcumming

just like her last reply ignored everything
except her attack mode on pure o

but heck mr voc u...lets hear about the dna..
lol being the missing link...[the missing link from what to what]

which dna..[specificly]
or maybe the why of the dna filling in that missing
but heck i know your [and the occo-lite's words are just psssing in the wind]

im not even going to try to think
how dna relates to global warming

The Acolyte Rizla,

"...the last refuge of the idiot."

hmmm....if that's an example of your best wit, I suppose I should congratulate you (although there's room for improvement IMO)

We have a few posters on OLO who regularly resort to insults and name-calling as a demonstration of their superior "quality". However, most of us manage to get by without recourse to such rhetoric - you should challenge yourself and try it sometime. :)

one under god,

I am lorem ligula in statu MORBOSUS base in vobis. Insolitae mihi, nobilis. Respondeo l 'Tantum modo secundum operationem in tantum brabbeltaal, elephante. In virga tua et ex pulls pipio.

Poirot,

If you undertake a more thorough examination of my posts, you'll note that I do no resort to insults and name-calling as a matter of course - it only ever occurs as a result of provocation. What better description than 'idiot' (or a synonym of idiot) is there for somebody who advances a weak argument, has it soundly rebutted, and then repeats it word for word as though it had never been rebutted? Or for somebody who persistently posts in gibberish, even after people have politely pointed out a number of times that nobody save the poster can understand it? If the shoe fits...

Furthermore, it's impossible to have a proper argument with people who indulge in that sort of behaviour. And unfortunately, 'Argument Clinics' only exist in Monty Python sketches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y&noredirect=1

So I have to make do with debating clubs and websites like this and such like. It's immensely frustrating when you're trying to have a good argument (a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition) and your opponent(s) consistently refuse to argue their case properly.

If other folk around here aren't interested in the services of room 12 (argument), I'm happy to direct them to room 12A (abuse). But if they don't want to be insulted, there's a simple and obvious remedy: don't do anything to warrant an insult.

Garbled Latin with a bit of swedish thrown in. Yes.