$500.00 cash to the first person who meets the challenge

[_The1Guy]

I am sorry if I have offended. My intent was merely to make a challenge/offer and I found myself fighting off a pack of vicious wolves. I have learned my lesson.

[_Bret Ripley]

I am sorry if I have offended. My intent was merely to make a challenge/offer and I found myself fighting off a pack of vicious wolves. I have learned my lesson.

Thanks for this.

If I may make a suggestion: rather than issue a challenge, you may have better luck by making an effort to engage us vicious wolves in discussion. For example: when others point out that Revelation 13 was relevant to first century concerns, perhaps you could discuss specifically why you think it is relevant to 21st century concerns. General allusions to Romney or, worse, simply encouraging folks to "read the book" makes it difficult for your audience to engage. Just my opinion, of course.

[_Quasimodo]

I am sorry if I have offended. My intent was merely to make a challenge/offer and I found myself fighting off a pack of vicious wolves. I have learned my lesson.

I don't think anyone was offended. I don't think you were chatting with a 'vicious pack of wolves'. There are some vicious wolves lurking around this board, but I don't think you met any of them today.

This is (for the most part) a very erudite crowd. Most with a very dry sense of humor. That's why I like it here. You presented them with a challenge and they responded.

Your posting in German may have seemed a little pretentious to some and you sort of lost it there. I suspect (my German consists of one semester in junior high school) that
many people here speak it well and are not impressed.

This is a great group of people who may be a little brighter than you first gave them credit for. I think there are other boards where your assessment may be more accurate.

You might try again by humbly asking people here to read your book and make comments. I'm sure that many will respond without any need of your offering a reward.

[_Bret Ripley]

F.W. Murnau's brilliant and intertitle-less silent film, Der Letzte Mann ...

Thanks for the explanation, Blixa. Your allusion to Der Letzte Mann was completely lost on me.

And...why...would someone drag Bob Redford into this?

Paul Newman was unavailable?

[_The1Guy]

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[_Quasimodo]

Paul Newman was unavailable?

Unfortunately, Mr. Newman will be unavailable for all future requests.

[_Blixa]

F.W. Murnau's brilliant and intertitle-less silent film, Der Letzte Mann ...

Thanks for the explanation, Blixa. Your allusion to Der Letzte Mann was completely lost on me.

And...why...would someone drag Bob Redford into this?

Paul Newman was unavailable?

Possibly. But I feel I should consult the Book of Revelation to completely know the answer.

[_Bret Ripley]

I don't think anyone was offended.

I certainly was not offended. I am more easily bemused than offended.

(my German consists of one semester in junior high school)

I dedicated several years of my youth to absorbing German culture and language, a process that consisted exclusively of watching 'Hogan's Heroes' reruns.

[_Quasimodo]

I certainly was not offended. I am more easily bemused than offended.

Me too, it's much more fun that way.

[_ludwigm]

...this bizarre thread...

Can You (you everybody, not you Blixa - what kind of language is this) imagine, that - for me - every thread is bizarre?

That I should translate every foreign word, then assemble the sentence created along a weird logic? And the understanding is only the third step on the chain?

That for every comment, I should convert my straight, logical thoughts to strange words arranged by strange language rules?

Please Don't let me be Misunderstood . . (((Animals... I was 18 then)))
I am not bashing English. Languages are different, all of them are growing as weed, the so called rules are only for canonize the changes.

Hungarian language is as weird as any other. But it is mine.

Pictures could help the better understanding.
They could... "You cannot use certain BBCodes: [img]."

I'm clearly not trying to impress anyone with it!

As I'm not trying to impress anyone with my big English knowledge.

It would be inefficient...