Originally posted by st00p1dfac3My point exactly 😀 But Red seems to have slipped offline for a moment or two...
Quality antique books don't usually come with dust jackets... 😵
I once met a Carney who made a living selling "White Leatherette New Testaments Embossed in Gold with Personally Autographed Photographs of Jesus Christ Our Lord And Saviour"
Originally posted by Red NightI'm still waiting for the answer to the last question. That's how I expect debate to function???
So...you really are as stupid as you look?
I am what I am, Red... what makes you think I look stupid? Where?
Am I, then, like a book, being judged by its cover... by you?
Should I wear a white imitation leatherette jacket with gold-embossing to improve my apparent intelligence? 🙄
Originally posted by widgetYou expect a debate to function by people asking inane questions of each other?
I'm still waiting for the answer to the last question. That's how I expect debate to function???
[b]I am what I am, Red... what makes you think I look stupid? Where?
Am I, then, like a book, being judged by its cover... by you?
Should I wear a white imitation leatherette jacket with gold-embossing to improve my apparent intelligence? 🙄[/b]
Have you been dissapointed in that expectation before?
I don't believe that I judged you at all. If you read through this thread it is you who presumed to know me as "a puritanical blowhard" based on a pre-conceived mis-conception.
Perhaps you should stick to doing what you do best and leave the chess and the debating to those of us with functioning livers.
Originally posted by Red NightOriginally posted by widget
So...you really are as stupid as you look?
I am what I am, Red... what makes you think I look stupid? Where?
Am I, then, like a book, being judged by its cover... by you?
Should I wear a white imitation leatherette jacket with gold-embossing to improve my apparent intelligence? 🙄
From Wiki:
In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users into responding.
The contemporary use of the term first appeared on Usenet groups in the late 1980s. It is widely thought to be a truncation of the phrase trolling for suckers, itself derived from the sport fishing technique of trolling. The latter can be compared with trawling. Another plausible derivation is that it may be a shortening of "patrolling", with the common meaning of "searching," especially, "searching for those who do not wish to be found."
The word likely gained currency because of its apt second meaning, drawn from the trolls portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children's tales; they are often ugly, obnoxious creatures bent on mischief and wickedness... 😛 😞 🙄
Originally posted by widgetYou invited me for a good game of chess and good conversation.
Originally posted by widget
I am what I am, Red... what makes you think I look stupid? Where?
Am I, then, like a book, being judged by its cover... by you?
Should I wear a white imitation leatherette jacket with gold-embossing to improve my apparent intelligence? 🙄
As it turned out you were capable of neither.
Originally posted by Red NightI would have thought a brain was the required organ
You expect a debate to function by people asking inane questions of each other?
Have you been dissapointed in that expectation before?
I don't believe that I judged you at all. If you read through this thread it is you who presumed to know me as "a puritanical blowhard" based on a pre-conceived mis-conception.
Perhaps you should stick to doing what you do best and leave the chess and the debating to those of us with functioning livers.
Originally posted by Red NightFrom Wiki: Troll
So...you really are as stupid as you look?
The contemporary use of the term first appeared on Usenet groups in the late 1980s. It is widely thought to be a truncation of the phrase trolling for suckers, itself derived from the sport fishing technique of trolling. The latter can be compared with trawling. Another plausible derivation is that it may be a shortening of "patrolling", with the common meaning of "searching," especially, "searching for those who do not wish to be found."
The word likely gained currency because of its apt second meaning, drawn from the trolls portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children's tales; they are often ugly, obnoxious creatures bent on mischief and wickedness.