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little bit of both, really. Years ago I used to work for A Popular Paranormal Magazine, as a result of which I found myself being pursued the length and breadth of the internet by a loony self-styled 'Bishop' and 'vampire hunter'. He used to send us reams of bilge about his various activities, and they were so utterly ridiculous that eventually we started just taking the piss, which sent him right over the edge. I used to get sent the most berserk screeds imaginable from him, as he worked himself up into a righteous froth about various imaginary slights (he once sent me a little note detailing the correct formula for addressing a bishop). It all culminated in several pages of rants and innuendo on his website, where he accused me of being some sort of Satanic terrorist mastermind.

The thing is that this isn't a very sensible game to get into when, as was the case with this bloke, you have spent thirty years systematically alienating every single person who has ever come into your sphere of influence, to the extent that they're willing to send your adversary pages and pages of files full of highly incriminating news clippings and photos. It all kind-of came to a head when I was sent copies of a News Of The Screws story from the Seventies illustrated with a photo of our man dressed in a Gestapo uniform, which I duly stuck on my webpage. That seemed to really upset him for some reason.

Eventually I just got bored of provoking him and let it go quiet. The fucker still uses a wildly out-of-context quote from me to flog his shit-awful (and only slightly plagiarised) books, though.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Fri 1 Feb 2008, 15:10, Reply)