Dr.Toole and JBL

[pctower]

"Of course he will duck the question. You will be treated in the most condescending fashion here with all kinds of attacks on what you don't know, but he won't reveal one damn fact about his background, experience or personal system. Welcome to the virtual house of cards built out of intellectual arrogance, hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty, double standards, and a smattering of dusty counterfeit blind tests published in the mainly now-defunct everything-sounds-the-same press foisted off on this board to the unsuspecting and uncritical as “scientific evidence” by people who have demonstrated absolutely no background or expertise that would qualify them to evaluate or conduct such tests. And all of this to the aim that the regulars here can delude themselves into believing that they are intellectually superior to the people that post over at AA, whom they often endearingly refer to as “stupid”, “fools”, “flat-earthers”, “believers in alien abductions” and “terminally gullible”.

RG responds:
This is a epic slam from the grandmaster of put-downs, in a style so clever that 1,000,000
Jon Risch's at 1,000,000 typewriters could not hope to match.

I predict that by the end of the year, after careful analysis of every word and many hostile debates on this forum, PC will declare that, in fact, these few words on wires were never spoken by Dr. Toole at all -- because if every fifth word is deleted, and the remaining paragraph is studied by looking at its reflection in a mirroe, it is plain to anyone with sense that the so-called "Toole Paragraph" really contains deranged alien commands to the WirePolice.

Either that, or a new debate will be launched on whether Dr. Toole knows anything of value about wires, since one person can't be an expert on everything, excluding Mtrycrafts, of course. As an example, let's consider Albert Einstein -- he couldn't figure out his income tax.

Gee, and I thought I was being so gentle and respectful.

Speaking of bazaar twists that could occur before the end of the year, I have not ruled out the possibility of voting for JFK. If I do, you can have a field day rubbing my face in that.

Also, don't know if you're a Sarah Brightman fan at all, but we saw her at America West Arena on Tuesday, and it was one of the most enjoyable concerts I've been to in a logn time. Given my hick, southwestern taste in music, I know that isn't saying much, but I highly recommend catching her on her current tour if at all possible.

Quite a spectacular show.

[E-Stat]

Also, don't know if you're a Sarah Brightman fan at all, but we saw her at America West Arena on Tuesday, and it was one of the most enjoyable concerts I've been to in a logn time..

I have enjoyed her voice since the Phantom days and being the fool that I am, I missed her performance here in Atlanta.

rw

[Richard Greene]

"Speaking of bazaar twists that could occur before the end of the year, I have not ruled out the possibility of voting for JFK. If I do, you can have a field day rubbing my face in that."

RG:
I'm still waitin' for that there Iraqi Dumbocracy you predicted.
I see nothing in JFK's record that even suggests he was against the Iraq War,
which is my big beef with tweedle dumb. In fact, at one time JFK was calling for 40,000 more troops. So it seems it's a rich white Yale guy from MA vs. a rich white Yale guy from TX. Too bad Howard temper tantrum Dean is gone -- he was different --
a rich white Yale guy from VT. I could not possibly vote for an ultraliberal like Kerry
even though I often consider voting out the incumbent rather than my usual wasted vote
on the Libertarian candidate that 99% of voters will ignore. Bush is history unless there is an unexpected surge for Nader who was an oddball when I heard him speak in college about 35 years ago ... and is now just an old odd ball. Bush can't stand up to the fact that there will be at least 1.5 million fewer jobs during his term -- claiming it would have been worse without tax cuts just doesn't create a positive message, even though probably true.
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."Also, don't know if you're a Sarah Brightman fan at all, but we saw her at America West Arena on Tuesday, and it was one of the most enjoyable concerts I've been to in a long time. "

RG
Thanks for the tip. I've been seeing performers I should have seen 30-40 years ago in their prime and never did: Aretha Franklin a few weeks ago and Al Green next week.
Some young talent would be a change of pace after these geezers.

I just know 30 years from now baby-boomer audiophiles will be "debating" whose hearing aid sounds more natural and whether high-end aides create a better stereo image.

[mtrycraft]

-- claiming it would have been worse without tax cuts just doesn't create a positive message, even though probably true. .

But not testable as any such speculations.