PM> Hey, come on. Even I have some standards. While a PD science
 PM> fiction book might have some novelty value, the rantings of a
 PM> senile old man are hardly likely to make good reading. Hmmmm,
 PM> come to think of it, this didn't stop Heinlein from making a
 PM> bundle on some of the crappiest books I've ever seen. Go for it
 PM> Bob!

Hi Paul,
           how dare you speak ill of the dead! Robert A. Heinlein was
the greatest man who ever lived, and the only thing that keeps me from
bursting into tears at the thought of his passing is my belief in
reincarnation. Crappy? I'll show you crappy!

  No, no... I'm confused, That was quoting Miss Piggy to Kermit when
he said that into each life some pain had to fall.

  "Pain?" she screamed. "I'll show you pain!" and
karate-chopped the
frog.

  But I digress. What's the subject? Ah, yes... senility and Science
Fiction,  and public domain... and Paul Edwards tempting me to try
for immortality like Lazarus Long AKA Bob Heinlein.

 PM> If Bob is really as over the hill as you guys say, maybe he
 PM> should call it quits now, and stop being a burden on his loved
 PM> ones. Or his family for that matter. If he wants to do
 PM> something useful, he can contribute his body to science.
 PM> Scientists generally lead a dull life and could use a good
 PM> laugh.

  Who the hell are you to be so insulting on your first message to
me? You must think I am easy, like they used to say about girls in the
fifties. I don't usually get insulted until the third message. And
anyway, I'm not that old. I am perfectly preserved. I feel like an
eighteen-year-old, but I refuse to stoop to using that awful old joke.
One must keep one's standards (as Prince Charlie said when he took up
the flag).

  But I have been writing SF on the BBS for a long time now. Just read
GTnet-Science and see if I'm right... or read any of my arguments with
Rod Speed - Science Fiction, all of them!

Regards,
Bob
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