| parrthenon@cs.com 2006-08-02, 10:46 pm |
| SATIRE AND PREDICTIONS
<"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".> -- Neil Brennen
I sent nothing to the Campbell Report on drug
testing in correspondence chess, and the assertion
that I did is either The Historian''s
satire or a lie.
<Larry Parr made numerous predictions a while back.
The vast majority did not come to pass. Nevertheless,
a couple did come true and now Parr rubs them
in our face. Then along comes Blair to remind us of
Parr's failed predictions.> -- g4
Mr. g4, who has taken to calling himself an
acceptable anonymouse, offers this attack: when I
make a prediction that I predicate on an "if" or some
other condition, then I can be held responsible for
the prediction when my stated reservations do not come
to pass.
This is dishonest argument of the absurd. I
worded my statements carefully, and the predictions I
made came true. Frankly, I am delighted that Louie Blair
yanked my predictions out of their context. His act reveals
far more about murmurs in his mind than about my predictions.
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