Bowie always appeared to me to be one of those people that intentionally was as blatantly insulting as he could possibly be, in order to try and publicly humiliate people in such a way that they had no choice but to duel him. It's like he's purposely trying to get as many people as possible to challenge him to a death duel as he can. And he makes it so blindingly obvious, and public enough, that he thinks that the target could not possibly refuse.
But at least he's not one of those morons who accompanies such insults with an OOC letter saying "I've insulted you, you *have* to duel me to the death OR YOU'RE A BAD PLAYER!"
It's funny, because he started in with the insults quickly, but the content of them was poor beyond belief. The funny part is that there is a law in Swordfell prohibiting personal insults and demanding of proper hierarchal respect.
We all see how /that/ went.
