Posting wild speculation in GQ & citing "A friend who is usually right"

Are you kidding? In post #113, I don’t even make a statement. I just ask a question.

By “you,” I meant “one,” i.e. a general, hypothetical person.

Post 113.

Post 125. Which is referring back to Post 113.

So which is it, a question or a proposal for an experiment?

Not to disagree too much with Dr. Mercotan, but I don’t see that it was that big a deal. smiling bandit posted what he was basing his idea on, and thus offered the opportunity to evaluate how seriously to take it. Certainly not a very authoritative “cite”, but he didn’t seem to be claiming that it was.

It is still just a messageboard.

Regards,
Shodan

Both.

It’s good that most of the dust has settled in this thread, and nearly everybody is calmer. I just got here, and I had not read any of it until now. If you don’t mind, I’ll lift post 50 out of the debris just to admire the writing. It is sharp and colorful, though somewhat erroneous. I’m still trying to figure out if “depp” is a reference to the mysterious actor, or just a typo.

And yet, through it all, he’s still smiling. :smiley:

There have been a dozen or so gripes about posting something in the wrong forum, so I’ll join in. John Mace, I hope you’ll take your poll to IMHO, where polls belong.

Well, two things. One, vanity searching on “Liberal” returns too many crackpot leftist hand wringing lamentation philippics and too many bizarre right wing scathing condemnation non sequiturs to be useful in finding my user name. And second, it would not occur to me to search on “Drama-Queen” since the phrase is not a hyphenated word. No offense taken on the cheap shot, by the way.

Speaking as someone who has NEVER,EVER been wrong about anything at all in my life about any subject you care to name ,you can take it from me that SMILINGBANDITS friend is wrong.
If you’re in doubt about me stating this then just check with me and you’ll find that I’m right.

As a matter of curiousity what exactly did S.M.s friend tell him?

This.