Top 25 Posters as of 4-1-03

ErikT · Post by **ErikT** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:18 pm

John Allison wrote:Top 25 posters as of April 1, 2003
Who actually had something to say!

1 Loren 2187
2 JessieK 1257
3 Peter Laban 1223
4 ChrisLaughlin 1194
5 Chuck_Clark 882

And, NO, I'm not bitter!!!

And double HEY!!

littlejohngael · Post by **littlejohngael** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:01 pm

I think ...

littlejohngael · Post by **littlejohngael** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:01 pm

I have ...

littlejohngael · Post by **littlejohngael** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:01 pm

a ways to go yet.

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 5:39 pm

John Allison wrote:Top 25 posters as of April 1, 2003
Who actually had something to say!

1 Loren 2187
2 JessieK 1257
3 Peter Laban 1223
4 ChrisLaughlin 1194
5 Chuck_Clark 882

And, NO, I'm not bitter!!!

Thanks, I guess, but however did I get chosen for such a sublist? I can think of several, notably but not only Jim Stone, that post both more often and more usefully, than me.

Besides, I just can't get over a certain nervousness that Dale chose the First of April as the cutoff date for the list...

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:43 am

Thanks, Chuck, but you should be on the list of people
who have something worth saying.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 9:03 am

Proud to be off the list of worthwhile posters!

Kinda like a spare wheel, you don't want to have to use it, but you feel better for having it around, just in case.

Ah well, back to emptying out this lake with a sieve...

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 9:55 am

John Allison wrote:Top 25 posters as of April 1, 2003
Who actually had something to say!

1 Loren 2187
2 JessieK 1257
3 Peter Laban 1223
4 ChrisLaughlin 1194
5 Chuck_Clark 882

And, NO, I'm not bitter!!!

I've been holding off making the (to me) obvious comment on this passage for a while. But since nobody else has made it, I can't resist any longer.

This has to be the funniest example on this board of 'foot in mouth so deep it's coming out the other end' since the famous 'you people don't deserve me' remark.

Mr. Allison's intention, I take it, was to accuse 20 of the 25 most frequent posters of having nothing to say. But that's not what the quote actually says. Taken literally, he purports to be giving a list of the 25 most frequent posters with something to say, right? Since the list contains only five names, the implication is not just that 20 people have nothing to say, but that none of the other 20 spots can be filled from the remaining members of the board.

Most amusing of all, Mr Allison's own name is missing from the list. Lots of words come to mind to describe this post, John, but 'bitter' isn't one of them.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:20 am

Well, it's a joke.

Wombat, I saw Steffi in SF, gave her your love,
which she returns. Jim

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:35 am

jim stone wrote:Well, it's a joke.

Well I've been laughing for the last two days; matter of fact, I still am.

jim stone wrote: Wombat, I saw Steffi in SF, gave her your love,
which she returns. Jim

Thanks Jim. (We really must stop exchanging PMs in public.)

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:55 am

John Allison wrote:Top 25 posters as of April 1, 2003
Who actually had something to say!

1 Loren 2187
2 JessieK 1257
3 Peter Laban 1223
4 ChrisLaughlin 1194
5 Chuck_Clark 882

And, NO, I'm not bitter!!!

Crushed, simply crushed. All those times in which I asked "what kind of recorder did Capn Kirk play in that movie?" for naught....

Oh well, I'm just a lurker, really.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:38 pm

There's a story about a monastery with a rule of silence.
Each year the monk deemed the best gets to
say a single sentence at dinner.
The winning monk gets up and
says: 'The food here stinks!'

Next year's monk says:
"I think it's pretty good, myself.'

A year later another monk makes
this pronouncement:

"I think we should stop all this bickering!'

Steffi looks fine--saw a lot of Dave Chalmers, too.
Ted Sider defended his 4 dimensionalism book,
Jerry Fodor defended Hume agaisnt Wittgenstein,
Robert Van Gulick defended Frank Jackson's
new explanstion of why the knowledge
argument fails. Australia was well represented.

But I mostly roamed around SF looking for
flutes and whistles! Heavenly. Best

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:12 pm

DaleWisely wrote:Top 25 posters as of April 1, 2003

"The wind blows hardest at the top of the hill" -old Chinese proverb

(never underestimate the still small voice in the valley--my favorite poster has less than 10!)

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:18 pm

jim stone wrote:But I mostly roamed around SF looking for
flutes and whistles! Heavenly. Best

Did you find any?

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:25 pm

There were some neat flutes at Lark in the Morning,
near Fishermans Wharf. Played some pakistani
flutes there, one in cocus, which sounded
very good and seemed well in tune,
though how long they will survive before
cracking, I wouldn't wager. Didn't
buy anything, though-also made
it to Haigh Ashbury Music, which
had some unplayable cane flutes
that were priced at about 10 times
what they would have been worth
if one could play them.

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