Just when you think you can't be surprised

Post this morning to the Sex Drive forum:

Man sues chatroom pals: I was humiliated beyond what 'no man could endure'

Mike Marlowe fully admits that he sometimes gave George Gillespie a hard time in that AOL chatroom.

But never in his wildest imagination did he expect to be sued in court for what he characterized as "razzing."

"We gave him crap," said Marlowe, a 33-year-old welder in Fayette, Ala. "I'm not going to deny it. I teased him and he teased me back. He gave it back better than he ever got it."

A generation ago, such petty personal beefs might have been settled with fists outside the corner bar, but now it's the Internet age — and Ohio resident George Gillespie instead filed a $25,000 lawsuit against two erstwhile cyber chums he met in the sprawling 900-room, mostly anonymous society that makes up AOL's chat universe.

I read the entire article with a growing sense of disbelief.

Let me tell you something, George. If you feel harassed in a chat room, go find another chat room to play in. And if you get harassed everywhere you go? It's probably your own fault. Log off and accept that online interaction is not for everyone.

As for being humiliated beyond what a man could endure, I hope you're prepared. By filing this ridiculous suit, you've let yourself in for the worst razzing of your life.

Sheesh.