The Origin of FAIR/MAD

[_Daniel Peterson]

Let's backtrack and take a look at something.

You and Scratch Junior will have to do it without me, I'm afraid.

I can't conceive of anything I could possibly say or do that would dissuade you from your baseless, obsessive, and malicious crusade, so there's no conceivable point in my devoting any more time or energy to the attempt. Anyway, I suspect that most people here can see this for what it really is.

[_Rollo Tomasi]

Let's backtrack and take a look at something.

You and Scratch Junior will have to do it without me, I'm afraid.

Too bad you didn't take that stance when faced with the Quinn gossip-mill.

I can't conceive of anything I could possibly say or do that would dissuade you from your baseless, obsessive, and malicious crusade, so there's no conceivable point in my devoting any more time or energy to the attempt.

There's no "crusade." All of this has been based on your words.

Anyway, I suspect that most people here can see this for what it really is.

Agreed.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Too bad you didn't take that stance when faced with the Quinn gossip-mill.

?????

There's no "crusade." All of this has been based on your words.

In much the same way that certain films are "based on" real historical events.

Anyway, I suspect that most people here can see this for what it really is.

Agreed.

So perhaps you and Scratch Senior need to repeat yourselves a few hundred more times. (Several people here have told me by PM how very starved they are for further discussions of this epic and ever-fascinating tale.)

Have at it!

[_barrelomonkeys]

OMG! I snorted Diet Dr. Pepper all over my screen. Dr. Peterson your avatar is hilarious!


***Edited to Add***

*whine*

[_Yoda]

OMG! I snorted Diet Dr. Pepper all over my screen. Dr. Peterson your avatar is hilarious!


***Edited to Add***

*whine*

LOL!

I actually brought in Krispy Kreme donuts to my class this morning! ;)

Yes, I told Dr. Peterson in a PM, we all need to take a break from the boards and read Harry Potter! LOL

[_Daniel Peterson]

I can't really take credit for it. It's a contribution from Shades.

But, as the politicians say, I'm Dan Peterson, and I approve this message.

It pretty well sums me up, I think, apart from the malicious gossip that seems to be my other great passion in life.

[_Rollo Tomasi]

So perhaps you and Scratch Senior need to repeat yourselves a few hundred more times. (Several people here have told me by PM how very starved they are for further discussions of this epic and ever-fascinating tale.)

Have at it!

All we have to do is wait for your next (and inevitable) foot-in-mouth moment, my good man.

Nice avatar, by the way.

[_Mister Scratch]

Let's backtrack and take a look at something.

You and Scratch Junior will have to do it without me, I'm afraid.

I can't conceive of anything I could possibly say or do that would dissuade you from your baseless, obsessive, and malicious crusade

I can, and it goes like this: "I, Daniel C. Peterson, admit that I engaged in some unethical gossip about Mike Quinn and his sexuality. I blabbed about it on the FAIRmessageboard, and that was wrong. That was a private matter which should have been kept between the people directly involved, and their ecclesiastical leader. I am sorry, and I deeply regret having done this."

If you want to own up to this, and admit you did wrong, I'd be more than willing to drop the matter entirely.

Too bad you didn't take that stance when faced with the Quinn gossip-mill.

?????

He's saying that you didn't "check out" (as you appear to be doing now) when your "friend" was ratting on Quinn to you. Nor did you "check out" on the FAIR thread. Rather, you giddily leaped at the opportunity to smear a critic of the Church. You lapped up the malicious gossip like a starving kitten at a saucer of milk, and then you dispensed it to your fawning audience at FAIR.

In any case, I notice that you are dodging out right at the moment when it seems we've got you pinned against the wall. There is really no way I can fathom you wriggling out of your admission vis-a-vis the so-called "sad incident." Your "checking out" only underscores your guilt, imho.

Finally, I, too, like your avatar a great deal.

[_Daniel Peterson]

If you want to own up to this, and admit you did wrong, I'd be more than willing to drop the matter entirely.

I don't.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Your mission expires when you die.

He's saying that you didn't "check out" (as you appear to be doing now) when your "friend" was ratting on Quinn to you.

I don't recall any such conversation lasting even sixty seconds. I suppose I should have run screaming from the room when the subject suddenly came up out of the blue. Alternatively, I could have decked the guy. Neither response strikes me as very civil or very normal.

you giddily leaped at the opportunity to smear a critic of the Church. You lapped up the malicious gossip like a starving kitten at a saucer of milk, and then you dispensed it to your fawning audience at FAIR.

As I say, it's like a (rather mediocre and overwrought) Hollywood production. Plan Nine from Outer Scratch, perhaps. Only less coherent and more malicious.

I notice that you are dodging out right at the moment when it seems we've got you pinned against the wall.

LOL!!!!!!!

Your "checking out" only underscores your guilt, imho.

Of course it does!

No doubt the orderly movement of the planets and the stars, the recurrence of the seasons, the periodic table of the elements, the basic axioms of geometry, and the collected works of William Shakespeare underscore my guilt, too.

Finally, I, too, like your avatar a great deal.

Tough luck. Neither your approval nor that of your junior Siamese twin will persuade me to change it. I don't value your opinion that highly.

[_Doctor Steuss]

No doubt the orderly movement of the planets and the stars, the recurrence of the seasons, the periodic table of the elements, the basic axioms of geometry, and the collected works of William Shakespeare underscore my guilt, too.

*Gasp* Not William!?!? Say it ain't so. I could understand if Robert Service underscored your guilt, but William?!?!?!

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,