In article , Jerry
wrote:

I suppose clubs ban people on the theory that banning
one person will bring in more people. Its usually not true.
People who didn't join before don't join after. Chess is

Um, no. You ban people so that the people who are already IN your club
don't quit because they can't stand having to deal with obnoxious
assholes. Or at least assholes that are more obnoxious than the club
norm.


--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson