I wish I would have been around for that feud.
Is anything up here on CC about it? I may look it up after I mow the yard...
It started years and years ago, at our old home, and began as a feud between dutch508 and Atman.
This was before conservativecave came into being.
dutch508, as you know, is rather, uh, formidable, and best not to mess with him, on matters both cerebral and physical.
While that was going on, and dutch508 was making mincemeat of Atman, I felt sorry for Atman, and thought the playing field needed to be more level. Not that I wanted to undercut dutch508--no way--but simply because I wanted to make it more interesting. And besides, even if the playing field had been level, dutch508 would've creamed Atman anyway.
Atman's principal weakness, I thought, was his crass bad manners and lack of courtesy.
That wasn't really Atman's big problem--his real problem of course is his utter stupidity, but one can't do anything about that.
However, while he couldn't attain intelligence, he could learn good manners and courtesy. Because I'm a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet, I offered to be Atman's mentor in means of influencing people and winning friends.
Atman blew up in my face, and finding franksolich a considerably less formidable target than dutch508, switched.
And as the feud evolved, it turned out there's rather remarkable similiarities in both the backgrounds and characters of Atman and franksolich; it's almost as if we were twins separated a birth, because we're even near-chronological peers (I think Atman's a year old than myself). (If that's the case, separated at birth, it's obvious which one got the money, and which one got the brains.)
The feud waxes and wanes, and has been going on for more than six years now. It's still a "draw."
