same as it ever was

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same as it ever was

Robert — 4/25/2008 9:28:59 PM (archived)

Formula for the standard interchange with TB:

1. I write something.
2. TB rewrites it with nasty spin to create a straw man
3. TB attacks the straw man instead of what I wrote
4. I waste time trying to unspin the spin
5. Silence or more spin from TB

Will you ever deal directly with something I write?

Can you? Or should I consider the standard formulaic interchange an admission that you got nothing?

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"Perils Of Victory" (February 3, 2003 Newsweek) - Bowser - 4/21/2008 1:40:53 AM
- Prescience - TB - 4/21/2008 4:18:11 AM
  - Yes, well.... - Yeti - 4/21/2008 9:01:07 PM
    - Heh. - TB - 4/22/2008 5:28:13 AM
      - Attention Robet S. - Yeti - 4/22/2008 3:42:46 PM
        
        No kidding - Robert - 4/22/2008 5:36:58 PM
        
        Can I at least get some idea of how we're scoring this? - TB - 4/22/2008 11:00:02 PM
        
        The scoring system is very simple - Robert - 4/22/2008 11:48:06 PM
        
        Okay, you win. - TB - 4/23/2008 12:13:10 AM
        
        That was just plain stupid - Robert - 4/23/2008 5:34:44 PM
        
        No, actually, your post was. - TB - 4/24/2008 3:35:28 AM
        
        same as it ever was - Robert - 4/25/2008 9:28:59 PM
        
        Incidentally... - TB - 4/26/2008 5:36:13 PM
        
        re: same as it ever was - TB - 4/26/2008 5:07:39 PM
        
        Dude. I bet you could write a lisp program - Yetiliza - 4/25/2008 9:59:29 PM
        
        I don't think so...it would come out as "thothialitht." (n/t) - TB - 4/29/2008 8:58:21 PM
        
        Ohh! - Yeti - 4/26/2008 12:53:11 AM
        
        Imagine, if you will, a search form... - Robert - 4/26/2008 2:56:37 AM
        
        And here... - TB - 4/23/2008 12:14:24 AM
        
        Tell you what, how about you just beat this mark? - Yeti - 4/23/2008 4:44:28 AM
        
        What, Tom- cat got your tongue? - Yeti - 4/25/2008 4:15:28 AM
        
        Dude, you had to go back five years. - TB - 4/25/2008 4:58:55 AM
        
        Tom used the word "dude"? - azstrummer - 4/25/2008 11:03:29 PM
        
        Actually... - TB - 4/26/2008 5:11:21 PM
        
        I do it too, for comedy's sake. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2008 6:54:25 PM
        
        I know, right? (n/t) - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:18:22 PM
        
        Far out, man. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2008 8:09:32 PM
        
        totally! (n/t) - Robert - 4/26/2008 2:57:19 AM
        
        Insane - Yeti - 4/25/2008 3:53:27 PM
        
        Track record - TB - 4/26/2008 5:26:06 PM
        
        The value of the US in Iraq made really, really simple. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2008 4:39:53 PM
        
        The numbers make no sense. - TB - 4/28/2008 6:39:52 PM
        
        Check your premises. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 10:15:31 PM
        
        Please. Don't teach granny how to suck eggs. (n/t) - TB - 4/28/2008 11:00:34 PM
        
        Another way of looking at: - podrock - 4/27/2008 3:36:44 PM
        
        My calculations... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 8:36:00 PM
        
        In other words, numbers, reason, logic etc are not needed. Its all just one big conspiracy. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 7:28:23 PM
        
        It's hopeless. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 11:15:12 PM
        
        Maybe if I speak slowly enough, you will understand. - Yeti - 4/29/2008 12:04:58 AM
        
        Monopolists versus Capitalists - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 1:41:32 AM
        
        You got nothing. - Yeti - 4/29/2008 1:53:54 AM
        
        Believe what you want. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 2:18:53 AM
        
        Like someone showing up to a southerbys auction with a little red wagon and a ball of rested bailing wire. - Yeti - 4/29/2008 3:16:53 AM
        
        Sotheby's? Southerby's must be for the southern folks... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 3:52:29 AM
        
        Problem is, you numbers and etc only make sense in TechLand - Yeti - 4/25/2008 10:44:17 PM
        
        Sure you do. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2008 11:42:37 PM
        
        Oookay, Tech. Thats nice. (n/t) - yeti - 4/26/2008 5:52:37 AM
        
        Yeah, I thought so. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 8:07:22 AM
        
        Just nothing one can say - Yeti - 4/26/2008 5:00:06 PM
        
        Let me get this straight... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 6:37:23 PM
        
        PS - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:17:47 PM
        
        No, let me straighten you out. - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:09:32 PM
        
        Actually, a pittance of a drop - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:34:37 PM
        
        Like I said... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 10:28:48 PM
        
        re: Oh! Easy one- number of wars started for causes that were fictions - Yeti - 4/22/2008 11:27:18 PM
        
        Whoa...looks like you win hands-down then. - TB - 4/22/2008 11:42:27 PM
        
        re: No kidding - REB - 4/22/2008 9:45:48 PM
        
        Naive, perhaps... - Robert - 4/22/2008 10:26:26 PM
        
        Actually - Yeti - 4/22/2008 9:25:19 PM
        
        re: Actually - Robert - 4/22/2008 10:30:39 PM
        
        re: Actually - Yeti - 4/22/2008 11:20:16 PM
        
        Now it's clear - Robert - 4/23/2008 12:04:36 AM
        
        oh, and - Yeti - 4/23/2008 4:28:20 AM
        
        re: Now it's clear - Yeti - 4/23/2008 4:22:14 AM
        
        Hey Arrell - Yeti - 4/22/2008 8:26:45 PM
        
        Nevermind - Yeti - 4/23/2008 2:57:45 PM
      - What???!!! There is no way even YOU can revise history that way. - Bowser - 4/22/2008 6:33:00 AM

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