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[_Dr. Shades]

The Magic Flute certainly beats "My Turn on Earth."

Yeah, but who beats the magic flute?

About 98% of all males aged 12 or older.

[_Daniel Peterson]

"Faulted"? I don't think so. I may have pointed out that you seem to gravitate towards the more conservative, stereotypically "Mormon" things, but I don't think I said that that's a "fault." If you're embarrassed or insecure about your own likes and dislikes, that's your own problem, Prof. P.

I've just always found it amazing that, with a straight face, you would presume to report on the literary, cinematic, artistic, musical, and comedic tastes of someone whom you don't know, simply on the basis of his posts on a board that doesn't focus at all on literature, art, music, comedy, or film.

But then, when I watch you pronounce judgment upon closed e-lists to which you have no access, and discourse upon confidential editorial processes of which you know nothing, and so forth, I realize that it's all of a piece.

You simply make things up.

[_Doctor Scratch]

"Faulted"? I don't think so. I may have pointed out that you seem to gravitate towards the more conservative, stereotypically "Mormon" things, but I don't think I said that that's a "fault." If you're embarrassed or insecure about your own likes and dislikes, that's your own problem, Prof. P.

I've just always found it amazing that, with a straight face, you would presume to report on the literary, cinematic, artistic, musical, and comedic tastes of someone whom you don't know, simply on the basis of his posts on a board that doesn't focus at all on literature, art, music, comedy, or film.

Lol. I'd love to comment further on this, but, unfortunately, I have a plane to catch, since I'll be delivering a lecture at Cambridge. After that, I plan to dust up on my reading of Dickens as I kayak down the Thames.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I offer, as a parade example of Scratch's genuinely dishonest way of treating things I say, his current signature:

"We don't need it" ---DCP, discussing the relevance of peer review at FARMS; MDB, 7/28/09

He's yanked what I said out of context, and completely misrepresented what I said. This is so brazenly shameless, and so indisputably obvious, that he simply has to be playing a game. But what kind of person is it whose favorite idea of sport is -- based on his antics here -- to malign and deliberately misrepresent others? He pulls this stunt over and over again, and very often just as transparently as he's done here.

What is the point of it?

[_moksha]

Yeah, but who beats the magic flute?

Much better to have it blown than to beat it.