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Louis Blair

2005-06-15, 8:32 pm

Larry Parr wrote (7 Jun 2005
20:00:59 -0700):
quote:

> ... name-calling and mud-slinging, I
> eschew that kind of stuff.

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I posted (10 Jun 2005
22:23:20 -0700) the quotes:
quote:

> "Trollsby" - Larry Parr (7 Jun 2005
> 15:04:02 -0700)
>_
> "Parser Blair" - Larry Parr (31 May
> 2005 18:47:26 -0700)

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I posted (13 Jun 2005
10:38:46 -0700) the quote:
quote:

> "pompous, semi-lettered nit" - Larry
> Parr (18 May 2002 04:59:43 GMT)

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005 09:00:03 -0700):
quote:

> Louis Blair's essential dishonesty has been
> to quote statements by this writer in which
> he left out the "as" or "like" words referring
> to similes.

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I wrote (14 Jun 2005 12:46:41 -0700):
quote:

> None of these quotes comes from a sentence
> that contained "as" or "like".


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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005 20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> So, then, Louie Blair did indeed post
> some "names" that I allegedly called
> that included as "as" and "like" similes.
>_
> That's called dishonest.


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Larry Parr does not produce a single
specific example of this supposed
dishonesty.
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"[A] charge without any defined
antecedents ... is usually called
a smear." - Larry Parr (14 Jun 2002
14:06:47 GMT)

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005 20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> So we are down to three names


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Three names was all I contributed to this
discussion. It was, for example, Neil
Brennen who contributed "gutter patriots"
and "Ratpackers".

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005 20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> Mr. Houlsby, our Trollsby, called me a troll.
> I RESPONDED.


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If Larry Parr responds to name-calling with
name-calling of his own, then he is not
eschewing name-calling.

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005 20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> The phrase "pompous, semi-lettered nit"
> was in reference to the intellectual product
> of someone who pretends to be a
> disinterested truth seeker. It is not name
> calling.


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If, in the future, Larry Parr tries to have
us believe that he eschews name-calling,
I wonder if he would be kind enough to
include a footnote explaining that, in his
opinion, he can eschew name-calling
while indicating that someone is a
"pompous, semi-lettered nit". Of course,
we can always remind Larry Parr, even
if he leaves out such a detail.

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005 20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> Perhaps Mr. Blair could provide us
> with the entire paragraph to give us
> the context.


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Perhaps Larry Parr will give an example
where he claims that I "left out the 'as'
or 'like' words referring to similes".
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Perhaps Larry Parr will give a quote of me
where he claims that I tried "to equate"
Larry Parr's "responsibility with that of a
chess person who writes a six page
article for Chess Life."
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So far, I have not even seen Larry Parr
follow my practice of providing a specific
time and quote that would make it easy
to locate the details on Google.

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005
20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> As for Parser Blair, we have a reference
> to what kind of Blair we are dealing with.
> He is a parser and several others have
> run out of patience with inane questions
> and killfiled him.


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"Parser Blair" is a name, and Larry Parr
calls it.

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Larry Parr wrote (14 Jun 2005
20:07:48 -0700):
quote:

> Mr. Blair reposts questions about
> Botvinnik and Keres that I answered
> at length. I don't intend to answer
> them again. If he has been following
> the discussion, he knows the answers.
> With a little research, he can find
> them quickly.


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Here is what is found by a little research:
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"[Mr. Kingston's] article was written in 1998 --
two years after [the GM Evans article] -- and
it's clear by then that other people knew about
Botvinnik's admission and Whyld said about
Keres.
...
What GM Evans and I knew by 1998 when
[Taylor Kingston's article] was printed in
Chess Life should certainly have been known
by Mr. Kingston, who claimed to undertake
formal research." - Larry Parr (30 May 2005
18:33:35 -0700)
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"Is Larry Parr trying to tell us that by May
1998, both he and GM Evans knew (and
remembered) the 1991 Botvinnik comment
and the Whyld-Keres discussion?" - Louis
Blair (30 May 2005 19:19:31 -0700)
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[a note ignoring the question] - Larry Parr
(30 May 2005 19:58:34 -0700)
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"Still no answer." - Louis Blair (30 May 2005
20:59:13 -0700)
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[a note ignoring the question] - Larry Parr
(30 May 2005 21:12:00 -0700)
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"Still no answer." - Louis Blair (30 May 2005
21:28:25 -0700)
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"There won't be any more answers to these
stupid questions no matter how many times
they are repeated." - Larry Parr (30 May 2005
22:40:41 -0700)

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