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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Bruce Harper--Runnin' Scared!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.221259.746@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:12:59 EST
- References: <19037@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
- Lines: 92
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- In article <19037@mindlink.bc.ca>, Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper) writes:
- > What a shocking surprise. No game.
-
- No surprise. I knew you didn't have balls enough to put you wallet aginst your
- expert opinion.
-
- The sad part is, it could all be a bluff on my part, and YOU backed down.
-
- You'll never know.
-
- >
- > You're going to make a great addition to the legal profession, just as you
- > have to this group.
-
- Why thank you. I hope to be just as bloodthirsty there as here.
-
- >
- > Sorry to decline the offer to meet you in person - I can't think of anything
- > I would rather do less. Is there anyone else listening who feels
- > differently?
-
- There was offer for a social call. This was a challenge to prove JUST how wrong
- your 'educated' guess was.
-
- But, I do like the way you are trying put the spin on it...good lawyering.
- (Yes, we pled guilty to child molesting because my client felt that the
- trauma of putting all those children through testimony would be just too
- extreme a burden on their psychological development.)
-
- >
- > I don't think you'd cheat because I don't think you could find anyone to help
- > you. I won't cheat because I said I won't.
-
- HA HA HA HA HA! Good joke. That promise is worth the paper it is printed on.
-
- >
- > I think the way in which you'd lose would give us all an idea of your
- > understanding of chess.
-
- I would say, based upon the way your tail is between YOUR legs, it is not the
- thought of ME losing which comes to your mind.
-
- And the real beauty is, people who have been against me have asked if you
- were just gonna take my challenge laying down...
-
- I love it, you try and set up a match between me and someone else ("Let's you
- and him fight it out!") to prove I couldn't play, and you walk away from
- the challenge YOU helped create.
-
- >
- > This is getting pretty pathetic - I think your brief tour of
- > usenet.rec.games.chess has ended on a pitiful note of cowardice and
- > hypocrisy.
-
- But Bruce, NOTHING you can do can change the fact that YOU declined to play.
- YOU are the one who is unwilling to put anything of value at risk. You can try
- to place this on me as much as you want, but it is YOU who are a coward and YOU
- who are being a hypocrite...as you next few sentences proves:
-
- If you don't play chess, this really isn't the right group for
- > you, is it, even if your understand of law and logic was what you wished it
- > were.
-
- If I didn't play chess, I wouldn't be willing to fly out for one game, winner
- take all. Glory to the winner and a slimmer bank account to the loser.
-
- And if you didn't FEAR I did, you would be more than willing to go through with
- this. Think about it Bruce--being able rub my nose in what you are inhaling
- right now. Most people on here would love that chance.
-
- You have it, and you walking (running?) away from it.
-
-
- >
- > So that's that. It would have been pretty funny...
-
- That's that? You decline??? GOD! I thought this was going to be one of those
- dramtic posts where it looks like the person is declining, and then, with John
- Wayne tone in voice, he says "Like hell I won't! Let's play!"
-
- You let me down Bruce. You posted a belief and were unwilling to back it up.
-
- And you didn't even do the honorable thing and say, "Maybe I was wrong, maybe
- he can play."
-
- That's all ya had to do...
-
- Instead, you dropped the ball.
-
- DMC
-
-
-