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[_GoodK]

but I don't find intimations of infidelity very humorous at the moment

I wonder why.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

but I don't find intimations of infidelity very humorous at the moment

I wonder why.

Possibly because I'm not in a mood wherein a joke about infidelity coming from a stranger is funny at the moment?

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Oh sorry to hear. Care to expound on this?

Sure. I don't think that someone hinting that I would try to privately meet with women from the Internet is necessarily funny or appropriate, especially given the apparent disdain for innuendo and gossip on this particular website.

[_collegeterrace]

Possibly because I'm not in a mood wherein a joke about infidelity coming from a stranger is funny at the moment?

Now we are curious!

This "moment", what is the significance of it to your replies?

[_collegeterrace]

Oh sorry to hear. Care to expound on this?

Sure. I don't think that someone hinting that I would try to privately meet with women from the Internet is necessarily funny or appropriate, especially given the apparent disdain for innuendo and gossip on this particular website.

OH MY GOD.

You take this as serious but see Danno's death threat as fun?

DOUBLE YOUR MEDS, and call, err PM me in the morning.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

You take this as serious but see Danno's death threat as fun?

DOUBLE YOUR MEDS, and call, err PM me in the morning.

One difference being that I actually know Dan.

Parenthetically, (and I know Dan occasionally jokes in a similar way) I think saying people ought to increase their meds and whatnot is in poor taste given that it helps perpetuate a social stigma against those who really do take medication for behavioral reasons. This isn't something I particularly find funny, either. As long as I'm taling about jokes I don't find funny. I also dislike the word "retarded" as an insult. for what it's worth :)

[_GoodK]

Possibly because I'm not in a mood wherein a joke about infidelity coming from a stranger is funny at the moment?

Awwwe... Put on the mickey mouse hat... That should cheer you up

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Possibly because I'm not in a mood wherein a joke about infidelity coming from a stranger is funny at the moment?

Awwwe... Put on the mickey mouse hat... That should cheer you up

No need; it's already on.

[_Daniel Peterson]

No need; it's already on.

Personally, I can't post on this board without a Mickey Mouse hat on.

Is it just me?

[_Mister Scratch]

Again, to the best of your understanding, why did Gee petition to have Prof. Ritner removed from his dissertation committee?

What part of my disinclination to talk about this publicly do you find most difficult to grasp?

Pretty much all of it. If the story exonerates you, Gee, and LDS apologetics, I cannot understand why you would fail to "clear the air."

And if you won't say, why?

What part of my previously given explanation do you find most difficult to understand?

See above.

Why is this a secret that needs to be kept?

It's not a secret. But it's not my story, and I don't think it's my place to plaster it all over a public message board merely to gratify your weird obsessions. I don't really see, to be frank, why it's your business.

Come now, Prof. P. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You had no problem blabbing up and down about how you had the "inside dope" on Mike Quinn's Church Court, and the reasons leading up to it. You also have had no problem carrying on about your neighbor, and about the private lives of countless critics. The truth is that you are selective about what you are willing to tell, and that your chief selection critiera is, "Will this hurt apologetics, or will it benefit critics?"

Particularly given the rather obvious fact that the silence can be used as a means of smearing Dr. Ritner?

In the hands of an avid defamation-enthusiast such as yourself, I don't doubt that virtually anything can be used as a means of smearing,

Still waiting for you to "clear the air" on this issue, Prof. P. You claim that Gee filed a formal complaint against Ritner. This is the story you are perpetuating. I vote that you clear the air now, before Ritner gives us the full truth, Metcalfe-style. You've been sorely embarrassed once this week already. Do you really want to endure another round of it?