A few posts back, Shambles compared himself to Ghandi. The thought occured then that perhaps he should compare himself also to another Staunch Defender of Freedom of Speech.

It was just a passing thought; and I don't mean to say that Shambles is like either Ghandi or this other prophet. I will not venture to suggest which end of the spectrum between the two lies (no pun intended) closest to Shambles' position(s).

I will note that the link is to the "official" biography written by the prophet himself, and does bear a slight resemblence to "Shambles methods" for making the truth appear somewhat different than reality. Some who may be familiar with the teachings of this prophet may understand(?).

I have looked briefly at the list of 10,368 posts by Shambles since he "rejoined" us in August 2004, and don't find any that stand out as anything I'm sorry I missed. I have read this thread in its entirety, and don't find it a total waste of time as there were a half dozen quite interesting opinions expressed. I'm sorry, Shambles; but none of them were yours.

I do find lots of cut-and-paste, reminiscent of undergraduate researchers who mistake out of context plagiarism for research; but few actual opinions, so I must presume Shambles doesn't really have any. (An evaluation subject to amendment, but I'll not make a special point to look for a contrary example.) I made a special effort to look for pasteups that did have a cogent context to give some validity to their being pasted - and didn't find any really significant ones.

I did find the pasting of Joe's comment specifically dealing with editing of PMs as a "proof" that Joe lied about editing of public thread posts somewhat offensive, but not surprising.

And I do rather feel that the extrapolation of Joe's re-opening of the thread into a guarantee that individual posts containing personal attacks are immune in this thread extremely childish (but consistent).

Altogether, I think I'm rather bored with this.

John