ok, all you new people,
see how my antagonists
play their little game?

one by one, they come,
all calling me names
and insulting me, and
throwing mud on me,
until eventually it all
cumulates in a mess...

you tire of the thread,
get sick of the drama,
and soon stop reading.

pretty clever, hunh?

meanwhile, because i
had to do a response
to each of these twits,
they manage to make
me look like the one
who flooded your box.

that's why wolves
operate in packs...

and they think you're
too stupid to notice...

too stupid to notice
their blatant hypocrisy
by calling me "mean"
and "disrespectful",
when _they_ are the
parties guilty of that.

they call me "a troll",
as if i were the one
who was responsible
for them sending in
their nasty messages...

pretty slick, eh?

they accuse me of
"going off-topic",
but they seem to
think the topic here
is bashing bowerbird.

quietly ask yourself
how many of them
have a history of
adding value here?

it's all very amusing,
don't you think so?

and now you have
seen it for yourself,
so you too know
just how they play
their little game...

-bowerbird

p.s.  for the winner
of this iteration,
i pick walter hoist.
his accusation that
i'm suffering from a
"persecution complex"
was simply brilliant.
after all, why would
i feel "persecuted"
just because all of
these people are
calling me names?
must be something
wrong with me...

the other finalist,
finishing in second,
was lee passey, with
the good old classic
"crazy uncle" charge.
it's well-used, sure,
but that's because
you can't dispute it
without becoming
"the crazy uncle",
so it's fool-proof!

and yes, i _have_
stopped beating
my wife.  finally.
at least i think
i've stopped...
maybe.  for a
while, anyway.
well, i'm trying...
last night was
just an accident.