--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have > > > > > the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth > > > > > hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't > > > > > springboarded off of her insight. > > > > > > > > Delia had it nailed years ago on alt.m.t with her > > > > all-purpose Barry post: > > > > > > > > "Blah, blah, Judy, yada yada Judy, blah. > > > > Yada, Judy, blah yada yada, then Judy will > > > > blah blah yada blah, because Judy blah > > > > blah yada, etc. But Judy blah blah, so > > > > that Judy yada yada, as everyone can see. > > > > But even though Judy blah, blah, yada yada, > > > > I really don't care about Judy and Judy > > > > is No Big Deal to me, because Judy blah blah > > > > Judy yada yada. But I don't think about > > > > Judy much at all, it's just that Judy blah > > > > blah yada yada. If Judy blah blah yada blah, > > > > then I would blah blah yada blah, but Judy > > > > yada yada, etc. blah blah, so Judy blah blah." > > > > > > Uh...Judy...have you even *noticed* that > > > you are responding to my jabs of the last > > > few days that you are devoid of creativity, > > > *even in your putdowns*, by attempting to > > > repost a putdown written by someone else? > > > > You're suffering from a rather major misconception > > here. Can you guess what it is? > > Nope. Fill me in.
Actually there were two misconceptions. The first one I address below. The other is that the point wasn't to respond to your jabs that I am devoid of creativity but to highlight your *obsession* with me. You should have gotten that when I reposted Delia's putdown. > While you're at it, consider this. > > In all honesty (and I know that will make > you <chortle>), You got that right. I am trying to taunt you > into doing something "higher" here, > something more worthy of you. > > Look at the record. You keep referring to > the parody I wrote of you as the Red Queen > in Alice In Blunderland YEARS AGO as > "the best thing Barry has ever written" to > any of our mutual forums. Actually what I've said is that it's the best of your satirical pieces (by a very long shot). > Cool, I guess. > > So what's the best thing YOU have ever > written? > > Surely you can point us to it with a URL, > as you did with my best effort. > > And if not, WHY NOT? Because I don't obsess over the quality of my writing; it's not what defines me. > I'm taunting you as a weird kind of FAVOR, > Judy. I'm hoping to taunt you into TRYING > YOUR HAND AT CREATIVE WRITING, > instead of riding on the coattails of other > creative writers by cutting-and-pasting > their ideas, and their words. Might as well quit, Barry. You taunt at scars that never felt a wound (your first misconception). I'm an *editor*. What I do here is much more editorial than writerly. Unlike you, I don't consider the latter "better" than the former. As to whether I do what I do better than you do what you do, well, that's another question, isn't it?
