Fight the Conservation of Stupidity!

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Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to take
applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch of
the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all caps)
while I continue my corporate rampage.

Who will step to the plate?

Who will be the steward of truth, wisdom, and JUSTICE?

-Michael

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Michael Scott Brown wrote:
> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once.

Yet, combined, we don't smell as bad as you.

And I am pissed that I am only third in the list. I obviously am not
doing enough.

> It's
> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
> schedule these days.

What with you fighting crime, rescuing kittens, maintaining world
peace, etc.

> Who will step to the plate?

Kirrrbyyyy Puuuuuuckett!

> Who will be the steward of truth, wisdom, and JUSTICE?

Superman? Captain America? Pauly Shore?

Brandon

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"Richard Taylor" <soluzar@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
> > Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once.
It's
> > too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
> > schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to
take
> > applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch
of
> > the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all
caps)
> > while I continue my corporate rampage.
>
> Hey, you missed me! For the last two days, people have, with varying
> degrees of justification, called my posts stupid. I demand my place with
> the others. If it's a seniority thing, then I understand. I'll keep
> posting, and you can put me in the next one, in a few months. Do we have
> a deal?

It will take years of stupidity for you to rival Cope and Goslin. But
if you keep up with your sloppy command of the facts, you can indeed reach
the pinnacled heights they currently riddle with their feces.

-Michael

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Michael Scott Brown wrote:
> "Richard Taylor" <soluzar@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news8jpoq$h3h$7@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
>>Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>>
>>>Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once.
>
> It's
>
>>>too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>>>schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to
>
> take
>
>>>applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch
>
> of
>
>>>the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all
>
> caps)
>
>>>while I continue my corporate rampage.
>>
>>Hey, you missed me! For the last two days, people have, with varying
>>degrees of justification, called my posts stupid. I demand my place with
>>the others. If it's a seniority thing, then I understand. I'll keep
>>posting, and you can put me in the next one, in a few months. Do we have
>>a deal?
>
>
> It will take years of stupidity for you to rival Cope and Goslin. But
> if you keep up with your sloppy command of the facts, you can indeed reach
> the pinnacled heights they currently riddle with their feces.
>

To be honest, I'm rather planning on turning my posting career around at
this early stage, and only being accused of stupidity for my opinions,
rather than for my command of the rules. I expect to be lambasted by all
and sundry for not liking feats very much, when that comes up in
conversation, for example.

--
"Speaking of valid debates, it seems to me that there's an inverse
power-to-cleavage ratio among Aes Sedai." - Frank van Schie (r.a.s.w.rj)

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"Michael Scott Brown" <mistermichael@earthlink.net> wrote in
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> "No 33 Secretary" <taustin+usenet@hyperbooks.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96745BAC74902taustinhyperbookscom@216.168.3.50...
>> "Michael Scott Brown" <mistermichael@earthlink.net> wrote in
>> Methinks the Lady doth protest too much. Your posts guarantees they will
>> post more, not less, thus producing what you _say_ you want to end.
>
> On the contrary, I just drove one of my enemies into retirement by
> making a point of talking to him.
>
Heh. Yeah, right.

I know trolls, Mikey, and that's all you are.

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Richard Taylor wrote:

> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>
>> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
>> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>> schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to
>> take
>> applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the
>> torch of
>> the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all
>> caps)
>> while I continue my corporate rampage.
>
>
> Hey, you missed me! For the last two days, people have, with varying
> degrees of justification, called my posts stupid. I demand my place with
> the others. If it's a seniority thing, then I understand. I'll keep
> posting, and you can put me in the next one, in a few months. Do we have
> a deal?

Join the club, man. I try and I try to bait MSB, but it only works
sometimes. Try asking him about lycanthropes and alignment or something.

- Ron ^*^

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Jerry Chesko wrote:

> "Michael Scott Brown" <mistermichael@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:NIdre.3702$jX6.2259@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>
>>
>>Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
>>too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>>schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to take
>>applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch of
>>the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all
>>caps)
>>while I continue my corporate rampage.
>>
>>Who will step to the plate?
>>
>>Who will be the steward of truth, wisdom, and JUSTICE?
>>
>>-Michael
>>
>>
>
> OMG! Ron has infected MSB with the metatroll virus! All of you, RUN!!! Run
> as if your very virtual lives depended on it!!

"Oh, I'm not such a bad guy, once you get to know me..."

- Ron ^*^

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Richard Taylor <soluzar@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
>> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>> schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to take
>> applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch of
>> the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all caps)
>> while I continue my corporate rampage.
>
> Hey, you missed me! For the last two days, people have, with varying
> degrees of justification, called my posts stupid. I demand my place with
> the others. If it's a seniority thing, then I understand. I'll keep
> posting, and you can put me in the next one, in a few months. Do we have
> a deal?

You haven't earned it yet. I've seen you change your mind.


Keith
--
Keith Davies "Trying to sway him from his current kook-
keith.davies@kjdavies.org rant with facts is like trying to create
keith.davies@gmail.com a vacuum in a room by pushing the air
http://www.kjdavies.org/ out with your hands." -- Matt Frisch

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Michael Scott Brown wrote:
> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
> schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to take
> applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch of
> the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all caps)
> while I continue my corporate rampage.
>
> Who will step to the plate?
>
> Who will be the steward of truth, wisdom, and JUSTICE?
>
> -Michael

Count me out. What I know of 3.5E you could probably fit in a thimble,
and besides, I'm a firm believer in Rule Zero. The way you play at your
house is your own damned business.


Ralph Glatt

Member, Old Farts Club

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copeab@yahoo.com wrote:

> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>> It's
>>too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>>schedule these days.
>
>
> What with you fighting crime, rescuing kittens, maintaining world
> peace, etc.

Hey! I currently hold the title for Kitten Rescues this month, and
Iv'e got the Vet bill to prove it!

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Dirk Collins <dirk.collins@Earthlink.Net> wrote in
news:rtore.3503$eM6.2172@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> copeab@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>>> It's
>>>too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>>>schedule these days.
>>
>>
>> What with you fighting crime, rescuing kittens, maintaining world
>> peace, etc.
>
> Hey! I currently hold the title for Kitten Rescues this month, and
> Iv'e got the Vet bill to prove it!
>
I'm pretty sure that Burke is Goslin. Cope may be, as well.

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Richard Taylor wrote:
>
> I don't see anything as fundamentally wrong with them, god forbid. 3.x
> is a very playable system right out of the box, so I wouldn't say that.
> They just don't suit my style. I think that 3.x without feats is more
> like the D&D that I know.

Indeed, if for no other reason than that fighters can't compete with wizards
past level 5.

--
Christopher Adams - Sydney, Australia
What part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" don't you
understand?
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/mh [...] slist.html
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/mh [...] elist.html

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. It works the same in any country.

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Michael Scott Brown wrote:
> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
> schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to take
> applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch of
> the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all caps)
> while I continue my corporate rampage.
>
> Who will step to the plate?
>
> Who will be the steward of truth, wisdom, and JUSTICE?
>

I'm sorry Michael, but no one can replace you. You'll just have to
give up those unimportant things that are taking up all your time on
your schedule (CoH), and come back to your true calling of beating
sense into all the lowly tards (not excluding myself) that infect our
newsgroup.

- Justisaur

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Richard Taylor wrote:
> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>
>> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once. It's
>> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>> schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to
>> take
>> applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the
>> torch of
>> the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all
>> caps)
>> while I continue my corporate rampage.
>
>
> Hey, you missed me! For the last two days, people have, with varying
> degrees of justification, called my posts stupid. I demand my place with
> the others. If it's a seniority thing, then I understand. I'll keep
> posting, and you can put me in the next one, in a few months. Do we have
> a deal?

This joke only works when the person making the list is a kook, which
MSB is not.
Good try, though.

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Richard Taylor wrote:
> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>
>> "Richard Taylor" <soluzar@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
>> news8jpoq$h3h$7@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
>>
>>> Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Goslin, Zenobia, *and* Cope, all stinking up the newsgroup at once.
>>
>>
>> It's
>>
>>>> too much work to fight off that much moron juice by myself; not with my
>>>> schedule these days. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to
>>
>>
>> take
>>
>>>> applications for an "honorary MSB" - someone who will take up the torch
>>
>>
>> of
>>
>>>> the flambee and the MY GODS, BUT YOUR STUPIDITY OFFENDS US ALL (in all
>>
>>
>> caps)
>>
>>>> while I continue my corporate rampage.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey, you missed me! For the last two days, people have, with varying
>>> degrees of justification, called my posts stupid. I demand my place with
>>> the others. If it's a seniority thing, then I understand. I'll keep
>>> posting, and you can put me in the next one, in a few months. Do we have
>>> a deal?
>>
>>
>>
>> It will take years of stupidity for you to rival Cope and Goslin.
>> But
>> if you keep up with your sloppy command of the facts, you can indeed
>> reach
>> the pinnacled heights they currently riddle with their feces.
>>
>
> To be honest, I'm rather planning on turning my posting career around at
> this early stage, and only being accused of stupidity for my opinions,
> rather than for my command of the rules. I expect to be lambasted by all
> and sundry for not liking feats very much, when that comes up in
> conversation, for example.
>

Did you migrate over from the GURPS group like some of the other vermin
Cope drags
in on his coattails?

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"Some Guy" <someguy@thedoor.gov> wrote in message
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> copeab@yahoo.com wrote:

> Go back to the GURPS newsgroup, cheese-boy.

He gets slapped around there, too. However, to give him credit, he *did*
post a few interesting ideas about ritual magic on the Pyramid newsgroups.

--
^v^v^Malachias Invictus^v^v^

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the Master of my fate:
I am the Captain of my soul.

from _Invictus_, by William Ernest Henley

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laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote:
>
> Because you don't believe in the concept of "innocent until proven
> guilty"?

That's a legal concept; it doesn't mean that we, the public, have to give
*anyone* the benefit of the doubt.

Or do you think O.J. was innocent?

--
Christopher Adams - Sydney, Australia
What part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" don't you
understand?
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/mh [...] slist.html
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/mh [...] elist.html

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. It works the same in any country.

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Michael Scott Brown wrote:
> "Richard Taylor" <soluzar@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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>
>>You can put together some genuinely sick characters (human fighters
>>especially) by level 4, far more so than is possible in their absence.
>
>
> <raises hand> That's the *point* of them, sir. Or did you miss the memo
> that explains how Feats are the mechanic by which excesses of fighting skill
> are implemented in D&D?

Did I say they were a bad thing? Did I? I think I said that I didn't
like them myself. I don't play a high-powered game.

>>They just don't suit my style. I think that 3.x without feats is more
>>like the D&D that I know.
>
>
> Ie; one with completely generic fighters without any combat capability.

If that's the way you want to look at it, then I suppose you could.

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laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote in
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>
>
> Christopher Adams wrote:
>> laszlo_spamhole@freemail.hu wrote:
>> >
>> > Because you don't believe in the concept of "innocent until proven
>> > guilty"?
>>
>> That's a legal concept; it doesn't mean that we, the public, have to
>> give *anyone* the benefit of the doubt.
>
> I beg to differ.
>
>> Or do you think O.J. was innocent?
>
> No. But there was plenty of proof against OJ.
>
> Let's stick to the MJ case. What do you think the compelling proof was
> against this pitiful, psychotic shell of a man?
>
I'm guessing it was the known perjurer witness about to be indicted for
welfare fraud. But that's only a guess.

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"copeab@yahoo.com" <copeab@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> Malachias Invictus wrote:
>> "Some Guy" <someguy@thedoor.gov> wrote in message
>> news:TKKre.256$X71.244@fed1read07...
>> > copeab@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> > Go back to the GURPS newsgroup, cheese-boy.
>>
>> He gets slapped around there, too.
>
> Outside of threads that appeared in both .dnd and .gurps, when?
>
You masturbating with your SomeGuy sock puppet, again?

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No 33 Secretary wrote:

> But then, neither was the prosecutor, so it didn't really matter how
> cartoonish his witnesses were.

I didn't bother to follow the trial, but I couldn't avoid it
all. I was in a Pizzaria one day when the news channel they
had on was covering the trial.

The defense had started its case already but the prosecutor
wanted to bring in new evidence:

Specifically hearsay evidence
About what one of Jackson's (still living) sisters had said
about another case years PRIOR to the alleged abuse in
this case, even though she is still alive and competent
and thus could testify herself.
And the reason they wanted to be allowed to do this legally
three times over silly thing (out of order testimony,
hearsay evidence when direct evidence is available,
testimony about a crime the defendent is not accused of
at this trial and was never conviced of) was that
Jackson's defense had "made character an issue".

God help me please, that's what the reporters and legal
experts all claimed was going on inside the courtroom.

If I were the judge I'd have thrown the case out then and
there. Then fined the prosecutors for the contempt of court
they have shown by making such a silly request.

I assume the news coverage got at least one major aspect
wrong. But wanting hearsay about something said prior to the
crime about a prior case that IIRC never even made it to
court by someone not present for EITHER of the alleged crimes
when direct evidence is available and you have already rested
is just SO DUMB! What judge could possibly agree? If he did
agree does anyone think the appealent courts would let it stand?

Did these prosecutors ever attend law school? Or even civics
classes? I assume the defense attornies were at least vaguely
competent, so the outcome struck me as a forgone conclusion
after that day. I would have been shocked by a conviction.
I was surprised by how long the deliberations went.

DougL

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Justisaur wrote:
>
> Symbol wrote:
>
>>Richard Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Michael Scott Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Richard Taylor" <soluzar@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
>>>>news8l403$iec$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>>>>
>>>
>>>Did I say they were a bad thing? Did I? I think I said that I didn't
>>>like them myself. I don't play a high-powered game.
>>
>>If you've simply eliminated feats what have you taken away from all
>>other classes to compensate? Especially Sorcerers.
>
>
> IIRC he plays only low level games, not really anything you need to do
> to ballance arcane spellcasters since they are underpowered at low
> levels anyway.

I would dispute that and it certainly isn't true for Fighters without
any feats. What about Barbarians, Rangers, Paladins, Clerics and Rogues too?

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On 15 Jun 2005 11:23:01 -0700, "DougL" <doug.lampert@tdytsi.com>
carved upon a tablet of ether:

> Did these prosecutors ever attend law school? Or even civics
> classes? I assume the defense attornies were at least vaguely
> competent, so the outcome struck me as a forgone conclusion
> after that day. I would have been shocked by a conviction.
> I was surprised by how long the deliberations went.

I gather it took a while to persuade some jurors that just because
they though MJ was guilty of various things, they shouldn't find him
guilty of the ones he was charged with unless it was beyond reasonable
doubt that he had commited those crimes with which he had been
charged.


--
Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn@paradise.net.nz>
"Just because the truth will set you free doesn't mean the truth itself
should be free."

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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:45:54 -0000, No 33 Secretary
<taustin+usenet@hyperbooks.com> carved upon a tablet of ether:

> I think they were playing poker and watching porn videos, because they
> wanted it to be dramatic. This is California, after all.

And getting their story straight. I wonder if they sorted out how
they'll split the take from the 'exclusive rights', book deals and so
forth.


--
Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn@paradise.net.nz>
"Just because the truth will set you free doesn't mean the truth itself
should be free."

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Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn@paradise.net.nz> wrote in
news:9t81b1pusr7rsl2bhlog8868lm9i577ff0@4ax.com:

> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:45:54 -0000, No 33 Secretary
> <taustin+usenet@hyperbooks.com> carved upon a tablet of ether:
>
>> I think they were playing poker and watching porn videos, because they
>> wanted it to be dramatic. This is California, after all.
>
> And getting their story straight.

More or less. If they all tell the *exact* same story, only one of them
will get a book deal.

> I wonder if they sorted out how
> they'll split the take from the 'exclusive rights', book deals and so
> forth.
>
You bet they did, probably the day the last juror was picked. That's what
agents are for.

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