On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:43:21 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

On Sep 3, 1:17?pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:21:39 -0700, Chuck Gould

wrote:
After a moment's thought, I realized that your crap-stuffed comment
was either an unprovoked mean and nasty crack or you hadn't read my
comment in the other thread.

Or he was giving you a friendly poke in the ribs looking for a
"reaction".

It's an old north eastern tradition.

There has also been a very long tradition in rec.boats of taking
differences of opinion directly to ridiculous personal remarks.

I disagree with people rather frequently. I'm quite often but not
always right when I do. Nowhere except in "cyberspace" are people so
quick to back into the corner of "you're a thus and such" when an
opinion is questioned or challenged.

If my opinion is wrong, I would expect to be told why that opinion is
wrong rather than endure some tedious third-person version of "he's
wrong, and he's wrong because he's a butthole." Being a butthole,
(guilty sometimes) is a different issue that whether or not an opinion
has merit.

And that's you in a nut shell.

Duly noted.

Chuck is never wrong.

Do me a favor Chuck. Next time you place a thread about a map or
obscure Chinese navigator and somebody, like me, enters into a
discussion with some evidence that, well like pirate flags, directly
and authoritatvely kind of makes you incorrect (because you are never
wrong), just ignore it.

Like you usually do.