Stormrage opened this issue on Aug 18, 2002 ยท 55 posts
demosthenes_aborigin posted Thu, 22 August 2002 at 12:30 PM
Thanks for the clarification, Blacksteel. I disagree with your legal assessment, since it runs counter to my limited experience in such matters, but that is neither here nor there. Your new post has at least soothed my suspicious nature.
In answer to the trivial:
No, I do not have a speech impediment (one should of course be aware that a speech impediment is usually not related to intellect) but I am balding and acne-scarred, so feel free to needle me with that, if you are of a mind to do so.
Yes, I did take the name of the nemesis of Phillip II of Macedon (in words, at least... the poor dear did rather poorly on the battlefield by all accounts). Cute demonstration of your own erudition, by the way. Not subtle, and certainly a little comical after your long chastizement of what could be called Mensa-bation, but cute nonetheless. Now, if, by "misspell", you wonder why my nik is not capitalized, the reason is simple - I prefer lower case for all passwords and user IDs I use, for the sake of simplicity. If, on the other hand, you are curious about the "_aborigin", the reason for that is also simple - someone had already laid claim to "demosthenes" when I joined up at this site, so I had to make a modification. As I have been using the pen-name "demosthenes" since 1986 I felt justified in adding a tag indicating this long-standing use. I translated "from the beginning" into Latin (sorry, my Attic Greek was never worth a tinker's dam) and typed it in. Unfortunately, it over-ran the character allowance and I was left with a somewhat odd-looking suffix.
I do hope this answers your question.
As to all the folks who did not read the details... I seem to have forgotten that most people do not notice limiting and modifying terms, phrases, and paragraphs. Little things, like: "seems" and "appears" and "resembles" and "I am not saying..." and "maybe" and "perhaps" and... the list is actually rather long. I used them deliberately to avoid making an accusation, but it seems they were not sufficiently prominent to catch your attention. This is a problem I have often encountered, but I have yet to find a solution to it. My bad.
For those who engage in an argument and, having had their counters thrashed line by line, then decide to retreat to a false moral high ground ("I didn't know it was a contest" etc...)- shame on you. I started with a simple observation, for Blacksteel, with an implicitly expressed doubt of either his competence and/or veracity based on an obvious apparent contradiction. YOU OTHERS began the argument. You post broad and spurious generalities, I respond with specific facts. Facts trump pabulum. Now you say you were not arguing?
Shame on you.
That's the last I have to say on that matter. If you MUST have the last word, knock yourselves out.
Finally, the only important part of this post -
for Stormrage: Whatever course of action you decide to take, may the best of fortune go with you.