--- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Judy, stop! Find something worthier to think about. Solve some big > philosophical problem for us by using your intellectual gift for fine > discrimination. Don't waste it on nonsense. You and Turquoise are > like an old > unhappily married couple who for some reason will not seek a divorce. > I'm > wondering if we should ask Grand Wizard Rick Archer to impose some kind > of temporary > restraining order on you guys. Something along the lines of > "authfriend and > Turquoise are not permitted to respond either directly or indirectly > to each > other's posts for a period of 14 days after such posts appear."
Nah. Let the marketplace determine their fate. > > -- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > It's possible your memory has conflated articles > > > > > > about Girl Scouts getting college scholarships, on > > > > > > the one hand, and Girl Scouts selling cookies, on > > > > > > the other. Or perhaps there were articles that > > > > > > mentioned both, but again, without connecting the > > > > > > two. > > > > > > > > > > And, given your history of wanting to prove me > > > > > wrong, in any circumtance possible, about the > > > > > tiniest of tiny nitpicks, it's possible that the > > > > > dozen or so sites you "spot checked" out of the > > > > > 6690 just weren't the right ones. Get back to > > > > > me after you've checked them all, Ok? :-) > > > > > > > > Actually, no, you made the claim, then supplied > > > > the purported documentation as "proof" of that > > > > claim, so you get to find the "right ones" if > > > > you want them found. > > > > > > Ahem. Let us drift back to the *start* of this > > > whole gulag in a girl scout troop and remember > > > the post that we're talking about. I posted a > > > thing we call in the writing business a JOKE: > > > > > > >> The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive > > > >> success is that it's a contest -- the girls are > > > >> earning college money for selling the most cookies, > > > >> that sorta thang. So to really make it a success, > > > >> you'd have to come up with some sort of TM contest. > > > >> > > > >> Maybe the "poor" recerts could earn their way to > > > >> Raja status. "Bring in 108 new initiates and > > > >> earn your robe! Bring in 300 and get the crown > > > >> that goes with it." > > > > > > Because I know you're not familiar with the concept, > > > a JOKE is a thing you're supposed to laugh at, and > > > in this case, use to laugh at the TM movement, which > > > sorely needs it. You had to go and turn it into some > > > kind of inquisition. Go figure. > > > > As you usually do when you find yourself on the > > wrong end of a dispute, you misrepresent what > > happened. It's never clear with you whether you > > genuinely don't remember what happened and make > > stuff up to fill in the blanks to your own > > advantage, or whether your misrepresentations are > > deliberate. > > > > There was no inquisition of *any* kind on my part, > > not at the start nor at any time throughout the > > entire exchange. In fact, in two of my posts I > > agreed with you, in one case defending what you > > had said against a challenge by someone else. > > > > Our exchange got ugly only after I had pointed out > > that the Google search you had come up with in > > response to the other person's challenge didn't > > show what you wanted it to show. (You had > > already gotten ugly with the other person for > > having dared to challenge you.) > > > > You don't like to be challenged, Barry. You almost > > invariably get ugly when that happens, especially > > when you're in the wrong. > > > > <snip> > > > And YOU should have laughed. > > > > And how do you know I didn't? Are you so insecure > > about whether you've managed to be funny that you > > need to see a big HAHAHAHAHAHA? > > > > > Or gotten offended > > > about me poking fun at the Recerts and their door- > > > to-door initiation drive. > > > > I *should* have gotten offended?? Why on earth > > would you think I'd have reason to be offended? > > > > > Instead you focused on > > > the nitpick of all nitpicks, Girl Scout Cookies. > > > > No, I didn't "focus" on it. I merely pointed out, > > very briefly, that the Girl Scouts didn't operate > > the way you said. And you agreed, saying the contests > > you remembered might have been locally sponsored. > > > > Then I posted a little essay on how the Girl Scouts > > ran the cookie drive, because I thought *it* might > > be a good model for the TMO. No "nitpicking" there > > either, just a constructive suggestion for the TMO. > > > > If there was any preoccupation with nits, it was > > yours, in feeling you had to defend yourself from > > the other person's challenge, and then from *my* > > challenge to the bogus Google search you had cited > > in defending yourself from the first challenge. > > > > <snip> > > > I have nothing at stake in this silly non-sequitur, > > > Judy. I know what I read. If YOU want to flog the > > > non-sequitur, and in public no less, go right ahead. :-) > > > > Actually, as noted, you're the one flogging it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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