Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:36:41 -0800, jps wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:35:00 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:29:09 -0800, jps wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:06:16 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

However I'm magnanimous in victory - I will only require a public
apology from you for using offensive language. :)
I'm sorry your family has to put up with your politics...
Actually the whole bunch of them find me to be a fascinating person
with some rather strange views on the universe and humanities place in
it. They also know that while I have views vastly different from
theirs on many issues of the day, I cherish them beyond words and that
our differences are just that - differences. I belong to them and
they belong to me - family trumps everything.

Besides family dinners would be pretty freakin' boring if everybody
agreed on everything. :)
You drive them mad, I'm sure. Even the state trooper is probably
quite a ways to your left...

I used to run into guys like you all the time both in business and in
academia. Annoying little bug eyed critters with all the personality
of a rock wall and about as intelligent.

You use invective instead of reasoned argument. You use insults in a
vain effort to score points and obviously make up for your faulty,
highly ineffective and probably dysfunctional life.


Well, I don't know about your family life, Tom, so I won't comment on
it. But you "use invective instead of reasoned argument" and "you use
insults in a vain effort to score points."

You not only use an Olympus camera, you think you sit on Mt. Olympus,
and your opinions and thoughts and purchase decisions are *not* to be
questioned by mere mortals.

I don't mind that...it makes you more interesting and even more human
and ordinary than you think you are. It adds to your irascible charm, as
it were.

Besides, someone has to buy all those Etecs sitting at the dealerships.
And hey, when it comes to your photos, well, truth be known, I prefer
Eisboch's to yours. But I do prefer yours to Reggie's...at least you are
not going out there trying to retake the photos of the great masters.
It's one thing for Beethoven to write a perfect string quartet and for a
master that followed to pay homage by including a bar in his work. It's
quite another for an amateur to produce something almost entirely
derivative.

Have a nice day. :)