Last note on the Dog

OK, Hosta-Open folks (and this is my last post about Jim Dixon aka ShayDdog er guy).  Frances, you are right, perhaps Jim D has a mental problem and we shouldn't pick on him just because he is compulsively sending offensive and otherwise spamming unwanted jokes to this robin.  So I want to dispell a couple negative things that have been said or intimated about the poor guy we are attacking so self-righteously and without pity let alone mercy, AS IF we have the right to tell him to cut the jokes or get lost. I have gleaned the following nuggets from among the lumps of manure in my Delete folder, so don't be so fast to characterize a fellow HUMAN BEING.
 
Besides the following refutations of these prejudicial statements people in this GARDENING robin are making, I want to say there's always a silver lining. In this case, just be glad he's not the prolific participant as some of the rest of you. What if, for example, Andrew got into this?  Or Bob? Or Chick for Pete's sake?  Count your blessings, and besides, it's SPRING!!!
 
1)  Some of you think he never sent a single contribution to this list about gardening. But here's two you forgot. (WE MUST BE FAIR AND NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS!!!)
 
(a) <In a message dated 2/11/01 11:00:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, msbucky@home.com writes:

<< Anyone got any ideas for discouraging other people's cats in the garden? >>

Our man: "Garden hose works wonders, as does a squirt gun with dilute pepper sauce."

(b) <In a message dated 2/9/01 3:26:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, zonneveld@RULBIM.Leidenuniv.nl writes:

<< It is a pity that it is nearly impossible to have the benefit of all those "Winter meetings and Hosta colleges" >>

Our man (and here, folks, he is not shy to SIGN HIS NAME, further supporting Narda's thesis that he is Jim Dixon and Frances' assertations that he is a human being): " The Hosta College is not connected with AHS. It is the result of many years of very hard work by very dedicated people in the Great Lakes Region. Ohio, Indiana and Michigan people figure prominently in the people who helped form this College, and they sure as heck are doing something right to have 500 folks from a bunch of states, Canada and England show up every year for some of the finest educational courses offered anywhere.

I'm not at all biased, but the only ones I've missed was the first one, and the one last year (didn't get my registration in until #560 or so!). You can bet the rent that I've already sent in my registration for this year and just can't wait for March 9th to roll around.

See ya there!!!!!!!!!!!  [Diann's ed note: I guess everyone wasn't so lucky. Maybe next year.]  Jim"

2) Some of you think he's so rude that he doesn't respond to private emails. I'm here to tell you he's not that rude.  Here is one (I know he sent one before this, but I can't find it, sorry ShayDdog) I've been honored to receive and also store in my Deleted folder:

Subject:  NOT junk mail--but humor:  "Some just can't tell the difference" (3/2/01)

+++

OK, now I'm going to my Outlook program and find out how to block the guy's email (it's in Tools/Organize under the heading "Junk E-mail). That will probably mean I won't get an email with his "ShayDguy" name in it, well, that isn't nice of course .................... Sorry, Mr. Dixon, maybe you're a depressed person on your last leg and this is the only therapy you can afford.

Best to all and SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!

Diann

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