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Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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lugnet.loc.uk
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:49:33 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.&avoidspam&com
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Richard wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 
> > > Richard thinks its wrong for some people to have more than others,
> > > presumably whether we're talking about money, Lego sets, or
> > > whatever.  He's been fairly outspoken about it before.
> > > 
> > > If you didn't catch it, he was making a reference to the problem he
> > > had with several Americans buying up tons of the Blue Hoppers a
> > > while back.
> 
> I've replied to this elsewhere.
> 
> > Ya, this really gets up my nose, as they say in the UK. Let's review,
> > one more time, the blue hopper thing, because, after all, it's me that
> > Richard is talking about.
> 
> Am I?  I ruddy well am not!  I had no part in the whole blue hopper thread.
> And I was not referring to you, but anyone ordering unfeasably large numbers
> of (usually) very expensive sets.

Who says you're the Richard that I was talking about when I said "it's
me that Richard is talking about". :-) I was talking about the Richard
that Mike was talking about. :-) I knew which Richard he meant even if,
at the time, he misattributed it to the wrong Richard, which I didn't
catch. Does that help? :-)

> Up to this point, I'd respected Larry as a valuable member of the RTL and
> lugnet community (making more of a contribution in the past couple of years
> than I ever will).  But right now, at least until I cool off, he's not on my
> list of top ten people.

Sorry to hear that. But if one misattribution washes away "two years of
contributions", so be it, I guess. I've never been much good at winning
popularity contests, nor cared to be, if the truth be told.

> And to top it off, after attacking me on the basis of a thread I've never
> posted to, Larry gives another contributor a ticking-off for incorrect
> attributions of messages.  That REALY takes the biscuit.  Especially as I'd
> been at pains to point out exactly which Richard I wasn't!!! (Which shouldn't
> be taken as a slight on the rest of Clan Richard)
> 
> Richard Dewsbery

Wait, what does "ticking off" mean? My idiomatic UK english isn't
perfect, I'm just an anglophile, not a resident, but I thought it meant
to give someone rather a hard time or speak to them in an angry fashion.
Here's what I said:

> Richard, you have to be careful in trimming your attributions. What was
> ">>" in your post was not said by Scott, but rather the words of Nick G.
> Trimming off Nick's name can cause confusion.

I certainly did not MEAN those words to come out harshly and if they
read that way, I apologise... Was that a ticking off??

--
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(...) Ah, but to which Rich was your comment pitched? I'm pretty sure that the only contribution I made to the Blue Hopper thread was to try and get it off loc.uk once it became a discussion of how to get cheap DVDs! I may be wrong, but I searched (...) (27 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) I've replied to this elsewhere. (...) Am I? I ruddy well am not! I had no part in the whole blue hopper thread. And I was not referring to you, but anyone ordering unfeasably large numbers of (usually) very expensive sets. (...) I'll avoid the (...) (27 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)

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