Re: The game is afoot Watson!
Originally Posted by CarmeloOrchards
... Let's try for a win - win next time.
What a novel concept.
Mark A. Baker
Smila wrote a one word post "Scientology" and MAB replied with the "brilliant" post below
Post #15988
Ten Billion and Counting?
Ten Billion
I believe these two points stink. They are trite and convey no information. Why would someone bother going to the trouble of posting these two "posts"?
Mark A. Baker
Also, I believe that only an extreme blowhard and arrogant and pedantic person as MAB would admonish my post as he did in the phrase above which I highlighted in blue.
I come across interesting topics, mention where I got them and put them up for discussion on the board and if I just heard about a topic or don't know much about it, I mention that fact. I am looking for an actual discussion and exchange of ideas and readily admit that I am hoping to learn something.
MAB falls into the class of a know-it-all who lectures down to others. He is EXTREMELY pedantic and I can't recall a time when he ever thanked anyone for one of their posts or ever admitted that he learned something new or ever changed one of his opinions.
Another brilliant utterance by MAB was that the last Conservative politician who was not completely insane was the late William F. Buckley. Here he wrote off 50% of the population of the USA as being insane as well as about 50% of Congress.
People such as MAB make some very good posts and also a lot of duds like the three which I mentioned above. Their main impetus seems to be to act pompous and be pedantic and assert their beliefs and theories as being truths.
Actually, if I wrote a lot of bullshit and had a very limited range of topics on which I was qualified to write about, no one would bother to read the threads which I started. The stats reveal the truth of the matter. Carmelo and I are the co- creators of this thread. Early this morning we passed 800,000 hits.
There are a lot of lurkers reading the thread at night.
My stats as an OP are out the roof. No other thread on ESMB has come anywhere close to doing what Carmelo and I have achieved with this thread.
My natural tendency is to be modest and low key but I am sick and tired of being attacked by pompous blowhards such as MAB. There are a lot of excellent threads on ESMB and a lot of very intelligent and gifted people posting and starting threads here. ESMB offers lots of choices of fine materials to read and discuss. If I was a bullshit artist and had few subjects to write about, as MAB suggests, nobody would stay with this thread and new people would not be coming aboard continuously.

Those are just the facts.
Lakey