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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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- Subject: Re: Don't blame lawyers!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.160923.691@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:09:23 EST
- References: <18796@mindlink.bc.ca> <1ha35qINN5ne@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec26.182617.643@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1hn68aINNjag@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1hn68aINNjag@life.ai.mit.edu>, joltman@cookie-crisp.ai.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec26.182617.643@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- > |> While that may have been a tactic you used to while away the hours in your
- > |> otherwise pointless existance, my posts have been designed to question the
- > |> positions stated by 'experts' and if said positions are the result of informed,
- > |> impartial decision-making.
- >
- > You seem to make a point of trying to pass yourself off as a well-educated
- > scholar by using eloquent wording. This sentence fragment,
-
- That is no fragment. There is a subject (posts), verb (have been), and complete
- thought.
-
- Also, I did not know I was trying to speak eloquently. Nor do I wish to be
- known as a scholar. Scholars, for the most part, talk, and do not perform.
-
- although humorously
- > insulting, is not that easy to decipher.
-
- Perhaps. But I was trying to pack a complex thought into a compact package.
-
- If you are so concerned about your
- > image, you should take the time to proofread your posts.
-
- If you were to take all of the people of the earth, and lined them up according
- to how much they were concerned over my image, I would be next to last at the
- end of the line.
-
- (And, my guess would be Bobby Fischer would be at the end!)
-
-
- >
- > |> Just because YOU waste your life does not mean that everyone else is as
- > |> pointless as you.
- >
- > Again, if you want to sound intelligent and respectable (and you obviously
- > aspire to do so), it's usually not very convincing to lower yourself to simply
- > insulting people whose viewpoints you don't agree with.
-
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Wrong. Sorry, but you forgot to read this in context. I was
- responding to someone who had 'admitted' they like to hop onto newsgroups for
- the expressed purpose of insulting people. Said person tried to lump me into
- their little club. Said person desrves a counter-attack.
-
-
- If you can't think of
- > an intelligent response, it's best to just say nothing at all. Otherwise you'll
- > just make yourself sound more ignorant than you are.
-
- Huh?
-
- >
- > |> Make no mistake, my attacks are entirely serious.
- >
- > They seem to be seriously lacking in substance due to an overabundance of
- > fluff you put into them. You're so concerned with smearing your 'opponent' and
- > trying to make people think that you're the most intelligent person around
-
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Wrong again! You're not doing too hot sport. I don't care if
- you think I am smart, or just fell of off the hay wagon.
- (I
- > guess you assume that if you can make people think that you're the smartest, then
- > people will give more weight to your opinions or something) that you have little
- > space left over for the issue at hand.
-
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Not your day! My only goal is to show how insipid you people
- are when you state half-cocked personal beliefs, and false rumors as if they
- were truth.
-
- I am not here to win friends, I am here to make ignorant people dislike me
- because I point out how groundless their views are.
-
- BUT! You did mention something correct. And that is the issue at hand. Do tell,
- WHAT exactly do your posts have to do with calling for Benjamin to come up with
- a better analysis before he spouts off his dislike of Fischer as if it were
- done objectively???
-
- >
- > |> > Oh well. I think I'll start reading this thread for a while in case it
- > |> > proves interesting.
- > |>
- > |> Not with such un-educable people as yourself jumping in...except, of course, to
- > |> those who have similar degrees of repsect for legitimate questions.
- >
- > The only reason I jumped in was to point out a little irony about a certain
- > poster, regardless of my repsect for legitimate questions.
-
- Oh, the irony is I always respond to posters with the same methods they use.
- Which is why well-thought, and civilized debate gets back the same; while other
- posts get back tripe.
-
- If people don't like my tactics, they shouldn't throw them into the arena.
-
-
- >
- > ================================================================
- > = T. Andy Frakes (joltman@ai.mit.edu) =
- > = =
- > = This user does not believe in smiley faces. Insert your own =
- > ================================================================
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