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  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    Aw, now you've hurt my feelings...and just when I was beginning to gain a little self confidence in my life :#
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    For TheScashMan:

    Okay. So you've indicated that you would willfully and happily allow homophobes and anti-Semites to run amok on your Wizard Of Oz fansite, and apparently happily accept whatever might result from it. It took some coaxing, but I'm glad that I was finally able to establish where you're coming from...at least from an intellectual perspective.

    My characters do indeed use racial slurs in my fictional work, and I'd be more than willing to debate the merits of artistic verisimilitude with you, if you'd ever shown the capacity to engage in such a discussion...but then again, that would take place in another thread, and no doubt keep you up way past your bedtime [yawn].

    I do very much appreciate your repeating the plugs for my current and future books, though. All the free PR I can get is naturally appreciated. Why don't you log on to my own website, OscarJade.com, where I've established a blog, and exercise your 'freedom of expression'? If you have the nerve (which I highly doubt), please do so...and after you make your post, you will receive a message that should explain everything B-)
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  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    I'm going to write a coloring book!
  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,709MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Mr Martini wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:

    Not 'refuse'...but choose not too...

    I'll offer you a packet of Spangles and a conker ? :D


    I missed this post somehow, but have to ask you Sir Miles, what are Spangles and what's a conker?

    Spangles ? They were fruit flavoured sweets, alas no longer available. You can read about them here

    Conkers ? The seed of the horse chestnut tree. You take them and thread a string through them...then try to smash a similar one held by an opponent. Great fun.

    !

    Cool, thank you.
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  • JarvioJarvio EnglandPosts: 4,241MI6 Agent

    Like God, SiCo has been something of an absentee landlord of late.

    The comparison here is laughable at best and downright insulting at worst!

    Your post is disgusting at best and criminal at worst

    :))
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  • PendragonPendragon ColoradoPosts: 2,640MI6 Agent
    Jarvio wrote:

    Like God, SiCo has been something of an absentee landlord of late.

    The comparison here is laughable at best and downright insulting at worst!

    Your post is disgusting at best and criminal at worst

    :))

    amen to that, brother...
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  • thesecretagentthesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent
    I've held off for eight pages, but can contain my silence no longer. It is clear that Thescashman is on another level of debating. You lot simply didn't have a chance. He is surely a mastabater, er, I mean Master Debater. He has used a clever stretegy, using only a 150 word vocabulary has kept the argument, sorry, debate going far longer than if he used, say, the much larger vocabulary, of perhaps, a five-year-old.
    I do hope he sticks around for entertainment value, but don't expect sharp debate like this from monday to friday, 9am to 3.30pm in term time, although I'm sure he may get access to a computer at milk time...
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  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    I've held off for eight pages, but can contain my silence no longer. It is clear that Thescashman is on another level of debating. You lot simply didn't have a chance. He is surely a mastabater, er, I mean Master Debater. He has used a clever stretegy, using only a 150 word vocabulary has kept the argument, sorry, debate going far longer than if he used, say, the much larger vocabulary, of perhaps, a five-year-old.
    I do hope he sticks around for entertainment value, but don't expect sharp debate like this from monday to friday, 9am to 3.30pm in term time, although I'm sure he may get access to a computer at milk time...

    :)) :)) No, but I think his broadband allowance has run out (or his parents aren't allowing him anymore computer time :)) ) - He's decided to leave...... shame, as he was very amusing ;)
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,937Chief of Staff
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Still waiting for a response from TheScashMan - frankly I'm appalled and disgusted by his lack of manners in furnishing me with a response ! It's very cringeworthy !

    When you have something worthwhile to respond to, perhaps I'll consider it 8-)

    Now, now...temper..temper...

    Be nice or I may have to remove the conkers :o
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  • carver97carver97 New York, USAPosts: 78MI6 Agent
    edited May 2010
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Still waiting for a response from TheScashMan - frankly I'm appalled and disgusted by his lack of manners in furnishing me with a response ! It's very cringeworthy !

    When you have something worthwhile to respond to, perhaps I'll consider it 8-)

    Funny, when I decided not to respond to one of your posts that I didn't find worthwhile (which can be said of almost all of them), you accused me of not having proper debating skills. Dear oh dear, have you lost your debating skills as well? Oh my bad, I forgot you have to actually have something before losing it.

    This is the post I'm referring to, by the way:
    carver97 wrote:
    Right. Well considering the experience I've had in public speaking/debate and writing, I'll just dismiss all that and ask a fairly simple and straight forward question:

    You clearly have zero experience in debate, hence why you refuse to address my counter post.
    If you have such a problem with the way things are run here, then why the **** do you stick around?

    If no one questions things, then conformity simply continues. The many posters I have defeated in debate on this very thread is a classic example of narrowmindedness and an unwillingness to, essentially, ''free up'' a forum filled with mods. Surely ONE part-time admin is all that is needed!
  • toutbruntoutbrun Washington, USAPosts: 1,501MI6 Agent
    I think that it's nice to be promoted to moderator when you've been here for years, to begin with. Also, yes, we have here a forum where 99% of the members are nice to each other. But there are messages that could be deleted, moved, and someone has to do the job.
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  • MoniqueMonique USAPosts: 696MI6 Agent
    So this is what happens when there is no movie to talk about! I was wondering what everyone was doing! :)) :))
  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,709MI6 Agent
    Where you been Mo'? I'm sure you just had an interesting read.
    Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
  • MoniqueMonique USAPosts: 696MI6 Agent
    Just very busy...but hey, I've spent the last 8 years here, I'm not hanging it up now.

    Interesting read from you all, but ScashMan..not so much. I feel bad for Si and all the bandwidth this guy wastes. He is a tedious read for sure. 8-) Best to ignore a buzzing, pesty insect I always say. :)
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,489MI6 Agent
    I have to say I found ScashMan to be absolutely hilarious and note with envy how his rubbish threads generated several pages of posts... the guy was a comic genius.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,489MI6 Agent
    Anyway, to cheer everyone up, here's a youtube of kittens on a slide

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppbrYIcR80
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

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  • PendragonPendragon ColoradoPosts: 2,640MI6 Agent
    Anyway, to cheer everyone up, here's a youtube of kittens on a slide

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppbrYIcR80

    LMAO thanks for that, Nap
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  • MoniqueMonique USAPosts: 696MI6 Agent
    edited May 2010
    He's got to be a ghost of posters past. One who hasn't yet been banned from the new server, and has an axe to grind about a mod or mods who may have banned him from the old AJB. Imagine..profiling on a Bond board. :)) But the shoe fits, and he's a little tooooo aggressive for a random newbie. Who could it be....
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    Monique wrote:
    He's got to be a ghost of posters past. One who hasn't yet been banned from the new server, and has an axe to grind about a mod or mods who may have banned him from the old AJB. Imagine..profiling on a Bond board. :)) But the shoe fits, and he's a little tooooo aggressive for a random newbie. Who could it be....

    We already have a good idea, Mo; and if we're right, he was actually someone who was on the current boards. Trust me: our eyes are wide open. . .
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    edited May 2010
    I have to say I found ScashMan to be absolutely hilarious and note with envy how his rubbish threads generated several pages of posts... the guy was a comic genius.

    ...and so is the fly who buzzes round my face at a picnic. He had a good angle on the Roger Moore thing...and had a couple of laughs with his obviously provocative threads about OHMSS, etc.---but he very soon cheapened it all with his go at anyone who dared take exception [yawn]. Comic genius...yes. If a single pie in the face is comic genius. However, such bold brilliance demands a second act, and sadly none was forthcoming---unless you assign significant entertainment value to watching longtime members swat at the fly


    ...


    :v Perhaps there are one or two current members who might enjoy such a thing.
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,489MI6 Agent
    All very well, HB, but in the words of Shaggy, it wasn't me!
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,489MI6 Agent
    Comic genius...yes. If a single pie in the face is comic genius.

    three-stooges.jpg

    Ooh, get you!

    Damn, used to be a time when I could put Mark Loeffelholz into google images and your face would come up! I could have done a good custard pie collage with that! :D
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,541MI6 Agent
    I have to say I found ScashMan to be absolutely hilarious and note with envy how his rubbish threads generated several pages of posts... the guy was a comic genius.

    ...and so is the fly who buzzes round my face at a picnic. He had a good angle on the Roger Moore thing...and had a couple of laughs with his obviously provocative threads about OHMSS, etc.---but he very soon cheapened it all with his go at anyone who dared take exception [yawn]. Comic genius...yes. If a single pie in the face is comic genius. However, such bold brilliance demands a second act, and sadly none was forthcoming---unless you assign significant entertainment value to watching longtime members swat at the fly


    ...


    :v Perhaps there are one or two current members who might enjoy such a thing.

    I relished every second :v
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    All very well, HB, but in the words of Shaggy, it wasn't me!

    As the saying goes, it isn't always about you. Mo suggested the person in question might have been banned before we transferred to the new AJB server; I said our #1 suspect is someone who got banned after that. Are you saying you did get--or should have been--banned, NP?
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  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    Perhaps there are one or two current members who might enjoy such a thing.
    I haven't had this much fun since I was on the OJ trial jury...as an alternate.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,489MI6 Agent
    Hardyboy wrote:
    All very well, HB, but in the words of Shaggy, it wasn't me!

    As the saying goes, it isn't always about you. Mo suggested the person in question might have been banned before we transferred to the new AJB server; I said our #1 suspect is someone who got banned after that. Are you saying you did get--or should have been--banned, NP?

    Oh alright, I missed that bit. I thought you said it was a current member, or someone currently on the board.
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    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,709MI6 Agent
    Alex wrote:
    Perhaps there are one or two current members who might enjoy such a thing.
    I haven't had this much fun since I was on the OJ trial jury...as an alternate.


    Tongue in cheek?
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  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    Mr Martini wrote:
    Tongue in cheek?
    Of course!
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