Meet the Mopologists

[_Brackite]

The Brackite is also kind of a little bit much overweight. The Brackite has tried to lose a little bit of weight before. It is kind of hard for the Brackite. However, The Brackite's Blood Pressure is pretty much normal and fine. The Brackite likes seeing Kerry Shirts and DCP having fun, on Youtube. However, The Brackite likes seeing Shawn McCraney along with Sandra Tanner Quite a lot more, on Youtube.
Please See For Example:

Interview with Sandra Tanner (Heart of the Matter 1/9/2007):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=538gTaU-iv0


Sandra Tanner has a lot of Good knowledge about Mormonism. Sandra Tanner also has a lot of Good knowledge about the Book of Abraham.
Please See For Example:

SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF THE JOSEPH SMITH PAPYRI:
http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no82.htm

[_Trevor]

Brilliant!

Just when I was starting to feel unappreciated. Thanks, LOaP.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

It should be noted that Seth Payne in his recent Sunstone paper on ex-Mormons mentioned many sites, including RfM and did not, If I recall correctly, mention this one.

[_Daniel Peterson]

But, more importantly: You have a poodle?

A poodle?

My Doberman, Dude, is turning in his grave.

Tell Dude to relax. I don't have a poodle -- I can't stand poodles -- and I don't have a friend named Faulconer Gaylord Biddington III.

Growing up, I had a boxer-mongrel named Prince and a coal black Great Dane named Giant Dumbhead.

[_Jersey Girl]

Tell Dude to relax. I don't have a poodle -- I can't stand poodles -- and I don't have a friend named Faulconer Gaylord Biddington III.

You're advocating that he talk to the deceased, Daniel.

Growing up, I had a boxer-mongrel named Prince and a coal black Great Dane named Giant Dumbhead.

Of course you did.

;-)

[_Trevor]

and I don't have a friend named Faulconer Gaylord Biddington III.

OK. Now I'm disappointed.

[_Daniel Peterson]

As you can see, you are clearly referring to an Internet post.

Was that ever in dispute?

Why not allow your readers to view the post for themselves?

Why wouldn't I bother to identify Faulconer Gaylord Biddington III?

Were you trying to hide something?

Quite honestly, the thought of sparing you embarrassment never once entered my mind.

I'll go ahead and note that you engage in some ad hominem attack here as well, which sort of aggravates your offence.

My "offence"? LOL.

It's rather difficult to commit an ad hominem fallacy against a person whose pseudonym hasn't even been revealed, let alone to subject that person to public humiliation.

In any event, the bottom line is that you ignored the rules of your own style manual.

They weren't relevant.

There's no need to document anecdotes that serve no function in an argument and bear no weight as evidence.

Is that really the best argument you've got?

It's sufficient.

Don't you think you'd be better off saying something like, "Well, I just wasn't familiar with the protocol for online stuff"??

How long is it going to take you to realize that I won't lie in order to gratify you?

In case you need a "refresher course", here is what Chicago says to do (yes, we can go through MLA and APA too, if you still don't get it)

No thanks. I'm quite familiar with Chicago, as well as with MLA and APA. So is my production editor, and so is the director of publications for the Maxwell Institute. Both of them are professional editors.

In your obsessive combing of the Review for ammunition to use against me, you've no doubt encountered several quite proper references to on-line materials. We know how to do this.

what you did was deprive your audience of the chance to examine context.

No argument rested upon those quotations. They served as evidence for no proposition. They served, simply, as anecdotal introductions to a topic that I wanted to address.

If you ever write anything substantive, and I'm inclined to quote it, your pseudonym will get full credit.

Boy, it sure is fun to dangle context-free caricatures around within the pages of the FARMS Review, isn't it Prof. P.?

I rather enjoyed quoting you and your cronies, yes.

This is, you have to admit, a pretty lame argument, Prof. P.

I admit nothing of the sort. I made an editorial decision, and I feel perfectly fine about it. So, apparently, did the two professional editors who reviewed the piece and the two academic editors who reviewed it.

I don't need any "argument" at all, and I have no obligation to justify myself to you. If you want to edit your own journal differently, providing you edit one at all, do so. I really couldn't care less.

It's like saying that the lengthy quote you used from Shakespeare "played no role in any argument," and thus didn't need to be cited.

I'm happy to provide literary citations so that, if somebody likes the quotation, he or she can find it and use it.

Do you think such a practice would fly in the typical BYU freshman comp class? Methinks not.

I agree. But you see, Scartch, that, in my book, you're more on the level of Faulconer Gaylord Biddington III than on that of Shakespeare.

Quoting you was mere anecdotal fluff to introduce a topic. You're not all that important, intrinsically speaking.

I am willing to forgo stardom if it means you will throw away your ethics and standards all for the sake of trying to score a point.

You'd better go for stardom, then.

Yup. And I'm sure that's why you conveniently ignored academic protocol and neglected to provide the URL for this site in your article.

You seem a bit desperate for pseudonymous recognition. It seems more than a bit weird.

What a buffoon!

Um, yeah. Anyways---I forgot to take note of the fact that, in "Pt 5" of the videos, you state something to the effect that behind every little insult or barb is some far, far more worse epithet which you are suppressing. So, am I to therefore assume that when you say "buffoon", you actually mean something far nastier?

Very perceptive!

[_Daniel Peterson]

You're advocating that he talk to the deceased, Daniel.

Yeah. I was imagining a kind of doggie seance.

Growing up, I had a boxer-mongrel named Prince and a coal black Great Dane named Giant Dumbhead.

Of course you did.

;-)

I also had a black and white cat named Stupid. I was very fond of him.

[_Jersey Girl]

Well, then, you can thank K. Shirts's editing for creating the (false) impression that you were referring to Mopologetic payment.

Or we can realize, as is patently obvious, that the phrase "that's why they pay me the big bucks" was nothing but a joke.

Or we can view this thread as proof positive that Scratch is a few clowns short of a circus.

You choose.

[Guest]

Since we're getting all personal on this thread, and talking about dogs, I think it is only appropriate to bring my own little dog into the mix. She is the best DOG! in the whole world, and I love her!