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| | | I was forwarded this little gem from the mean spirited people that frequent jlug. This is far from the first time postings with my name have been brought to my attention. Even newbies have contacted me expressing disgust with the nature of the hate (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha) !!
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | (...) --SNIP-- Perhaps you should consider not tarring an entire online community with one brush just because one member of that community says something you don't like. You have also quoted that person out of context which is somewhat rude. JLUG (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | (...) Fair enough statement. I still think it is a load of bull. All this conspiracy all of this premeditation. Really offensive. Utter bull. e P.S. you know as well as I do, it is not just one member. How about pointing out the duality of both (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | (...) To put it into context "Of course, it would be more fun if there was whining and accusations of corruption and contest rigging..." was the comment it was responding to. Hardly conspiracy and premeditation. Tim PS. For what it's worth I'm not (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | | (...) Sucky attitude none the less. (...) Fair enough, I respect what you say. e (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) God forbid that 'e' should reply to the post in the forum where it was posted instead of whining about it here. Your (URL) account> is still active, 'e', be a man and use it. (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | (...) God forbid you point out how stupid it is in return. God forbid a thousand things Allister. (...) For what? I enjoy my solitude away from the negativity. At least here on LUGNET I can (hopefully) expect a level of decency. My last post on jlug (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Why on Earth would I want to do that? (...) For someone who claims to dislike negativity, you sure do spread a hell of a lot of it around. (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | (...) Oh right, nevermind. (...) A man can only be pushed so much. Don't you think? hey BTW, I really liked your Sea Horse MOC. Very nice! e (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | (...) Well, I didn't write that, but I still feel lucky that I've never met you in person. (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | (...) Good. I know you have bigger balls than that. Too bad we never met in person, we may have got along famously, instead of notoriously. Our loss. e (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Leigh Holcombe
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| | | | | (...) Hi Eric, I guess you missed this next part which appeared in that same thread only a couple posts later: "I'm just rambling, I guess. Lugnet in general is a pretty cliqued community, no need to single out the Mecha builders." So sorry to (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | (...) I missed it because I can't be bothered. Sorry. For what ever your reasons. Do you really have to have such a poor attitude? Dang dude. (...) Oh gee thanks. I feel better. (...) Look, what the heck did I EVER say or do to you? Nothing. Please (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Keith Goldman
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| | | | | (...) Ok, I was with you up until here. Come on now. (...) You love it, hit-whore....wasn't it you who wanted to have a party to celebrate his millionth hit? Any publicity is good publicity, right? And no doubt your hit-o-meter is skyrocketing (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remarks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | (...) You!? King Douche Bag! Your the one that pointed it out to me! :Smack: Don't write smack around Goldman, he'll tell me. Then again, he pulls no punches. His honesty is brutal at times. He may be a friend, but he is willing to be upfront with (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | (...) But if we owned it, how would we get that special Keith brand of douchebag love? Answer me that Mr Smarty-Two-pants. As official (in my mind) backpedaller of JLUG I will say that I only backpedal from the things that need packpedalling and (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) I prefer my eggs fresh, straight from the chicken[1]. And scrambled, please. ROSCO 1 - Actually I've found duck eggs are way better for cakes, but that's going a little off topic. (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remarks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | (...) Please x-fut to lugnet.off-topic.debate. It is offensive enough to have comments made about mecha builders making mechs for a contest without having such sore attitudes. I hardly want to read it myself. Leigh came out and made clear why he (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Legos not Egos (was: Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist) —Bobby Marinov
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| | | | | I am so disturbed from seeing this post that after nearly 2.5 years of silence I can’t remain quiet on this issue! First, let me express how incredibly impressed I am with the Iron Mecha contest!!! I believe that this is the best thing to ever (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Legos not Egos (was: Re: Disparaging remarks and charges of being elitist) —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | ho-lee-cow. NEO-OZ!?!!?!?! (URL) Wow, too cool, you are missed! e (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Aaron M. Sneary
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| | | | | In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote: [...snippy...] (...) Are you serious? Did I get higher billing on the elistist list than you, Eric? Rock on! I've always wanted to be mistaken for elistist. Surely they mean a different Aaron?!?! And to (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | (...) Ya, you missed your induction at last week's Mecha Elitist World Chapter meeting. Steve McQueen was there. You would have been hip to all the latest Silly Mecha Guy™ Mui Importante' Informationals Especiales. Tah, you would have known that the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Leigh Holcombe
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| | | | | | (...) ROFLMAO Touche, touche (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: I'm outa here 6.0!!! (was: Disparaging remarks and charges of being elitist) —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | Inspired from Steve Martin's "The Jerk": (that and my buddy Keith and I know, posts saying "I'm outa here man...:( are corny) I don't need nothing. Except for this (URL) Scala Lamp piece> and this (URL) chair>. I don't need nothin. That's right. (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks ?? —Steve Hassenplug
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| | | | | (...) I'm disappointed that you feel the need to question the integrity of the judges. Originally, I wanted to talk with Mark about adjusting the number of entries that passed to round 2 of the judging, because there was one that I think should make (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks ?? —Mark Neumann
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| | | | | | (...) No, don't worry about it Steve. You put forth an effort you thought was fair and you judged on your opinion and input. It's fair. I'm still waiting on our final judge's returns, he's been out of town (London I think) so we'll forgive the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | "Eric Sophie" <mylegomaster@aol.com> wrote in message news:IuAnsz.A36@lugnet.com... (...) <MAJOR SNIPPAGE> Thank you for bringing this from one forum to another so we all can discuss it. It is very appreciated to have a chance to read this (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Nathan Proudlove
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| | | | | So, my guess is that this post will go generally unnoticed by the majority of the established fan community. The reason, I believe, is that my name is not known very well yet. I have been developing theories about the number and nature of responses (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | (...) --SNIP-- I noticed it. You forgot the last rule 5) Reply to a controversial thread Tim ;) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Nathan Proudlove
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| | | | | | | | (...) Chuckle, whoops. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess we are all guilty of a little trolling. Nathan (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Marco Tagliaferri
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| | | | | | | In lugnet.build.mecha, Nathan Proudlove wrote: Hello Nathan, hello LUGNet, hello who ever will read this! When I read the initial post by Eric, I thought to myself he's right in some of his points and he's off in some others. I didn't want to chime (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Jon Walden
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| | | | | | (...) I'm not sure you'd be correct on that. I find that fresh insight tends to be very helpful. (...) You have a good point, but you might want to take into consideration some of us have waited years before we posted anything on Lugnet because this (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | | | | Re: Disparaging remaks and charges of being elitist —Anthony Sava
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| | | | (...) Eric,hey,look... if you're going to leave, then leave. Don't keep replying to this thread or making secondary or tertiary posts about leaving. If you're going to stay, then stay. Keep posting and building and amazing people with your (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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