ML>>> anyway, here are the answers...

 BK>>>  Yeah, but what were the questions?

 ML>> they were already posted... didn't you get them? isn't that
 ML>> why you started harrassing me?

 BK>>  Don't recall what claim applied to who. Do recall it was a list
 BK>> of claims of sexual activity by various presidents,

 ML> yes... you don't have a copy of that posting anywhere
 ML> about? you don't save qwk packets? you can't rescan the
 ML> message area of the bbs you use? surely you have methods of
 ML> acquiring the original posting...

 I save archives of messages that involve me. The first msg
 didn't involve me, so my search pattern would not catch it.

 Don't you have a copy?

 BK>> none of  which you seem to be interested in showing to be fact.

 ML> sorry, that's not in my job description ;)  my "job" was
 ML> simply to introduce some humor into this area by posting an
 ML> "interesting" trivia quiz and seeing who could get the most
 ML> answers right...

 How do you know your answers are right? Do you mean the answers
 you want them to give? That has nothing to do with right.

 ML> [trim]

 ML>>> maybe we can play another one some time later...

 BK>>>  First show the answers are true to this one.

 ML>> why? it is a damned trivia game... G.A.M.E. do you
 ML>> understand that?

 BK>>  It should still be true. Otherwise it's not even that.

 ML> a game is a game is a game... no matter if anything in it
 ML> is true or not... does monopoly carry truth through out the
 ML> play?

 Roll the dice. Lie about the roll. May help you win, but it
 won't be the same game.

 ML>   does the game of life? what about chutes and ladders?
 ML> jango? the drinking game? i could name many more that are
 ML> simply fun...

 Not ones that involve statements of fact that aren't factual.

 ML>> please... just put up or shut up... actually, no... don't

 BK>>  About what? You put up or shut up. You show your statements are
 BK>> true.

 ML> G.A.M.E. no more no less...

 Yeah, much more.

 ML>> fret yer li'l head 'bout it... the game is over... you
 ML>> didn't play so you lost from the get go... too bad, so
 ML>> sad... adios!

 BK>>  Didn't play so you lost? Do you work for the lottery commission?

 ML> no, i don't work for a lottery commission... there's only

 That's how the lottery people advertise.

 ML> one game that i know of that you win by not playing...
 ML> that's thermonuclear warfare...

 Pretty much any form of gambling.

 BK>>  If you play you lose. You show that you don't have sense enough
 BK>> to know what to play and what to avoid.

 ML> and you show that you don't have an imagination or know how
 ML> to have a bit of fun...

 It is fun forcing you to admit you can't back any of it up.

 ML> unless you take fun from attacking
 ML> folk and putting them down as you've (tried?) to do with me

 And just where was any of that putting you down? If nothing you
 say can be challenged without the challenger being accuse of
 putting you down, then no one can ever debate, or even seriously
 discuss, anything with you. IOW, why bother?

 ML> each time i've raised my hand and made a statement of any
 ML> kind in here... you attacked me on a serious subject and
 ML> you attacked me about a trivia game...

 Well, I don't recall any messages from me to you in this echo
 other than about that "game". Where did I attack you on
 anything? Calling you on what you said is not attacking you.

  BTW, I just rechecked the list of presidents in the answers.
 Every single one who lived during my lifetime was a democrat.
 You left out the allegations against the republicans. Now that's
 a bit hard to miss.

 Don't try to give us that BS of "it's just a game".


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... George W. Bush, the most corrupt man to hold the presidency in my lifetime.
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