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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Bev wrote some stuff, and I answer thus:


> Bill Jones wrote:
>  I once posted on how I had learned to use hops to
>  
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> > purify sourdough yeast so that you'd never have to buy another hi-tech 
> > packet of yeast again, before you were on the list.  Not one response.  
> >    
> Before???
> I've been around a LONG time, Bill.  I actually lurked here for over a 
> year before I ever posted.  I don't seem to recall your posts back in 
> the mid-90's..were you on the list then?
>  

You were on briefly after I joined in 2001, but shortly thereafter you 
said you good-byes, saying it wasn't quite your cup of tea.  I assumed 
you meant the half-dozen daily bushbashings from TV.  Later you came 
back?  I don't suppose anyone else remembers the hop yeast posts, 
either, it would seem.

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> > I can't help but think that if "Tvoivozhd" had posted it, or someone 
> > else deemed politically correct, the adulation would have been endless.  
> >    
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> Don't flatter yourself.  In all the years I knew Tvo, he never demeaned 
> anyone's question.
>  
An neither did I.  I'm just suggesting that the responses depend more on 
who posted something, rather than the content, in my experience.

> It really has nothing to do with you, although I do have some old
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> > questions about how you've treated me in the past.
> >    
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> I admit that over the years, I've become a bit more punchy..but, I'll 
> bet if we take a poll as to who is the most antagonistic, I'd think you 
> would have me beat in that superlative.  Maybe not by much, but still...
>  
I'm referring to your behavior when I went out of my way to send the 
computer software I had written to draw a cute analemmatic sundial 
picture for any latitude and longitude, after you showed interest.. It 
wasn't very rewarding to hear not a word in response.

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> > Anyway, there's talk of us making the big trip from LA to Oregon 
> > starting tonight, so I'll have to wait to read your doubtlessly 
> > illuminating response.
> >    
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> And that's a perfect example of the antagonism I mentioned above.
>  
You react negatively to both compliments and criticisms, consistent with 
my comments.  I can't wait to read your post in detail.  Now that we're 
not leaving tonight, maybe I'll have time.

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> > If there's any doubt about this being primarily a political rag, check 
> > the archive.
> >    
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> No need.  I've been here, I know that politics are a way of passing 
> time, but it has always been, and always will be, a HOMESTEAD list.
> Have a good trip out of the city, Bill, perhaps you will relax a bit 
> once you get to Oregon.
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>  
The truth is always objectionable to someone, it seems.  Ads are like 
porn; you can't define it, but you know it when you see it.

Bill