| Mike Murray 2005-03-16, 3:51 am |
| On 15 Mar 2005 17:49:03 -0800, "Nick" <nickbourbaki3@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
quote:
>Contrary to Mike Murray's characteristic distortion of what
>I wrote, I did *not* 'take umbrage' at Taylor Kingston having
>*ignorantly* referred to 'Zaire' rather than the 'Democratic
>Republic of the Congo'. What I wrote (which Mike Murray has
>*not* quoted) was simply to point out that the country was
>renamed several years ago. In that post, I did *not* mention
>Taylor Kingston by name or make any further comment about him.
>So much for my allegedly having 'taken umbrage' (to quote
>Mike Murray) toward Taylor Kingston in this case.
I thought I detected umbrage, but the light was bad in the shade, and
it was at some distance. Perhaps it was merely a sneer.
At any rate, I have to accept Nick's description of his emotional
state at the time of his post, and will thus amend my comment to read
as follows:
"Since another poster takes exception to your having named the latter
country from an old map, I recommend you replace this example with,
Nick calls Sam Sloan a pedantic nitpicker."
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