| The Historian 2006-08-02, 10:44 pm |
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help bot wrote:
quote:
> Larry Parr wrote:
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> "The Kingston review of the Soltis volume is evidently a clinker."
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> The insertion of the weasel word, "evidently", seems to indicate that
> Larry Parr has not even bothered to read Kingston's review before
> forming an opinion as to its value. He appears to rely solely upon
> comments by Ray Keene -- a man who is desperate to sidestep criticism
> and who relies upon baseless ad hominem attacks to "deal with" any and
> all criticism of his work. So much for Larry Parr's commentary, which
> amounts to mindless parrotting of Ray Keene's muddled "thinking".
I wish Parr, Innes, and other trolls would actually read the articles
they flame. Parr once suggested I wrote a Chess Cafe article under a
fake name. A glance at the homepage would have cleared that up for him.
Of course, Larry's feelings were hurt when Chess Cafe rejected his
screed on Winter and Keene, so I understand his bitterness. Of course,
every writer needs to get used to rejection:
http://correspondencechess.com/camp...les/a030614.htm
"Dear Mr. Parr,
Thank you for your recent submission, Beyond the Toilet Police: The
Threat of Drug Testing in Correspondence Chess. While it is a
considerable piece of work, and must have taken you hours to cut and
paste all those newsgroup postings, it probably is not an article our
readers would find interesting. We haven't heard of anyone suggesting
ICCF will start testing for drugs in the World Championship Finals. May
we suggest you approach Chess Cafe about this article? They have a
Bulletin Board on which you could post it.
As for your other suggestions, we are at a loss as to who to pass them
on to, as we have no one at The Campbell Report named "The Historian".
Sincerely,
The Campbell Report
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Dear Mr. Sloan,
Allow us to express our sympathy for the capture of your former wife by
Laotian pirates, and the subsequent distress it has caused you.
However, since the lengthy article you submitted has nothing to do with
chess, let alone correspondence chess, we feel it would not be of
interest to our readers. We suggest you may wish to obtain a website,
and post your article there. You may wish to consider the use of
contractions in your future writing to save on bandwidth.
In answer to your other questions, The Campbell Report has no plans to
add MIDI files to our articles, and we do not know of any single women
in Singapore we could "fix you up with". Should you wish to meet some
women, we think one of our unwelcome correspondents,
Hotpornpix@correspondencechess.com, might be of some interest to you.
Our providing this e-mail, of course, does not constitute a
recommendation of this service.
We wish you best of luck in your new career in the transportation
field. We will certainly hail you if we visit New York City.
Sincerely,
The Campbell Report
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