I blog-strolled over to the Gas Guy’s alter ego blog earlier tonight and happened to read his post on the Stones, along with a few of the comments..this one by The Gas Guy aka Evil Jeremy caught my eye:
You guys can, as consolation, all feel special that you know the answer to the Riddle of Gas and a bunch of poor rubes in the Volunteer State do not.
The Gas Guy is snickering with his pals who were in on the joke.
Turns out he really is a Gaseous guy…
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September 29, 2005 at 11:30 pm
Yeah, that’s been my impression all along, even though he’s peeved that I dared mention it in as many as four places!
I was bothered by the way he always belittled other people to make his point.
(Ironically, as I belittle him to make my point. I’m such a tool.)
I love writers, I really do. I just don’t like it when they think that their talent makes them above other people.
My issue with him, which came up before I knew for sure that he was misrepresenting the facts to pimp the press,* was that he seemed to repeatedly emphasise class bias.
Sure he was a gas guy, but we were instructed to not look down on him. Not because he was a human being like any other. Not because Christ instructs us to treat all people equally. But because he was some sort of autodidact.
The lessons from his posts were repeatedly that education and learning were to be valued, no matter how they were obtained. The way he enforced this lesson was to point out the numerous folks he knew who could quote arcana and ascribe them a paramount value. Those he felt to be stupid or uninterested in esoteric knowledge were painted as selfish, shiftless or otherwise pathetic. In the few cases where he became enlightened about this or that customer, it wasn’t that poor sap who was elevated. Rather, it was the GG–made all the more valuable through this nugget of knowledge–who rose up the pyramid of respectability.
I read three or four posts before the reveal and since skimmed a few others.
*For the record, the “pimp the press” accusation I’ve repeatedly made is validated by this comment from the same thread:
“Amazing what changing a profile age by three years and its location by 649 miles on I40, plus visiting other blogs using two different names and two seperate email accounts can do to snow people. Just nobody bust me out over there, please? The Tennessee press has given me a little bit of attention, and as [sic] I’m not ready to let them know the deal just yet.”
September 30, 2005 at 4:07 pm
OK.
You were right. NiT needs to demand the T-shirt back.
September 30, 2005 at 4:16 pm
HE NEVER GOT THE FREAKIN’ SHIRT, PEOPLE.
October 18, 2005 at 10:22 pm
You all have way too much free time, and the fact that you’re still smarting over an imaginary insult now several weeks old at a defunct blog is proving it.
Oh, and Katherine, that’s six postss and counting at four different web sites you’ve devoted to dissing me; you might want to take that up with a therapist. Obsessive hatred toward someone you’ve never met is weird and antisocial.
But then again, I did take the time to respond to this ankle-biting, didn’t I? So I guess I’m not that much better off than you folks after all (excepting Brittney, of course, one of the fews Vols who actually has responded like an adult).
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