"Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I just checked some of Tom Sherman's posts in the archive. They're on
topic, whereas Mr. Dolan's generally are not. Even if Mr. Dolan manages to
exceed the number of T. Sherman's posts, Dolan's posts are immeasurably
inferior. There's no contest!
Steve
Steve, I challenge you to go look up a thread from a couple of years ago
when Sherman and I were at loggerheads over the Iraq War. I think that
thread ran to over 500 posts. Sherman was a worthy adversary for me I will
admit, but I do not believe he ever got the best of me. In my own mind at
least I bested him. I bested him because my messages were far superior to
his in every way except on those rare occasions when I would go berserk from
the frustration of it all. To claim that his messages were superior to mine
is absurd. But both Sherman and I were writing for the newsgroup, something
that is seldom done here anymore - except by me of course.
Very many of Sherman's posts were nothing but sheer [censored]. Even when he was
on-topic very many of his posts were nothing but one liners, ever the
hallmark of an idiot. I have never been a one liner. I am prolix if nothing
else. I show respect and consideration for the reader by taking him into
account at all times. Every message of mine will run to at least a couple of
paragraphs. That is because I am trying to give the reader something
worthwhile to read. If you are into nothing but one liners, then you are not
giving the reader anything worthwhile at all. It is simply an act of self
indulgence, not to say self abuse.
--
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
