I didn’t ask him to monitor anything. I’ll be happy to monitor it.
My understanding is that the actual person will never post here again. Period. At any rate, I believe socks are automatically banned.
How so? He responded affirmatively to “Remember that the offer is for your permanent disappearance”.
Well, I don’t want Tris hurt either. In any way, shape, or form. I don’t even want him uncomfortable with it.
Eh, you make a good point. I have likely done the same.
Five hundred bucks is not enough to hurt me.
Send the dough, Liberal.
Pseudo, My board email is years old, and very easy to find. My Board name, at hotmail, so you can send me instructions on how you want payment. I will leave my son instructions on paying you if I die. Since you have decided to trust me, I will assume responsibility for trusting Liberal and negotiate his payment to me. I will pay the money myself, if he fails to pay me. You have my word, are covered as of this moment. Email to me, of course is perfectly acceptable. I check it fairly often. You may feel free to discuss unrelated issues, as it happens. I have no part of this other than honorable bag man.
By replying positively to this post, and acknowledging your intentions, you accept the terms to stop posting thereafter, by your current board name, or any other.
One post, and then permanent silence. Good bye.
The deal is done.
You really can’t make this shit up. ~ me ~
Tris, it’s great that you’re so scrupulous about this deal, but I wish you’d stop talking about dying. It makes me sad.
Well, when one reaches a certain age, it has to be taken into account. For example, I’m in prime heart attack territory - I’m a middle-aged male, I smoke, I drink, I have a bit of a gut. I certainly don’t expect to die tomorrow, but in any long range planning, it would be both foolish and selfish of me not to consider what would happen if I did.
would it be inappropriate tp mention that I’m available for adoption?
Precisely!
I am hale and hardy, quit drugs and cigarettes more than a decade ago, and have no reason not to expect to enjoy my retirement in a few years. But, I make plans that include the eventuality of my death. In fact, I also intend to shield this particular wad of wealth from legal entanglements, in case I get sued, or robbed. I take promises very seriously.
Tris
Of course you do, and I wasn’t criticizing you for making plans in case. It just makes me sad, is all. I’d like to see you at many GettysDopes in the future. Stay well, man.
Well, you’d be sadly disappointed. At the moment my investment plan consists of winning Powerball tonight.
Although when the truth comes out that I am the father of Anna Nicole’s daughter…
grin
I’ll be there. With Kimche.
Hmmm, I have a new recipe for Kimche and salted shrimp soup. I might bring that!
Tris
Rubystreak, my disbelief in PRR’s professional credentials is not based upon his mean-spiritedness or his arrogance. It is based upon his ignorance of the basics of English language. I have seen nothing in our larger universities to make me think they have descended completely into madness.
I have every right to defend the standards of my profession and to expose the frauds who lay claim to it without doing the work and having the knowledge required to actually be a teacher. (It’s not as simple as it looks.) I think only the mods will determine if I have that right here.
If PRR could write as well as the average poster to Great Debates, I would not have questioned his claims. Nothing short of a change of writing style would convince me now. He cannot teach a language he does not yet know well himself.
Well, damn it- stop smoking. We like you.
Acknowledged.
But are you exercising that perceived right for any good purpose? PRR has taken Lib’s offer and is leaving. Shouldn’t you give it a rest? What’s the point in flinging stones at the man’s departing back?
He’s leaving voluntarily, and thus is fair game. Lost in all the madness about offer details and intervening cat fights has been the message I originally posted to him. All I asked of him was that he put up or shut up with respect to the accusations of irrationality and ignorance. He never made any logical case for his views, but never failed to call a Christian an idiot.
When, for example, he claimed that faith is a choice — faith, mind you, not mere church attendance or anything — I challenged him to choose to believe. He ignored me until his silence became conspicuous, and then he said simply that he could if he wished, but just didn’t want to. No one calling me a “weasel” here had called him a weasel there.
So bizarre were his claims that I always suspected a lack of sincerity. And sure enough, he is willing to put his cause to rest for money. I’ve done the board’s atheists a favor. Like I said in that first post, the good arguers for materialism were being drowned out by him and his cohorts, like Badchad. He was never sincere, and his sell out is proof.
In the three days that I have been away from the SDMB, several comments have been made about me and about whether or not my accusations against PRR were appropriate. I was responding at my first opportunity to those comments. They were not comments made by PRR. I was not flinging stones at his departing back.
But what if I had been? This is the Pit. He is not banned.
Yes, I think I served a good purpose. It began with his false claims about acceptable usage and I was fighting ignorance.
When PRR is no longer an “is leaving” but is an “has left,” and others do not have any questions or comments that I wish to address, then I will not be commenting on that subject further.
Are you assuring me that as of this moment YOU consider yourself to owe me $500, payable in two years (at approximately 4 a.m. on February 18th, 2009–you can pay me earlier if 4 a.m. isnt convenient for you) whether Liberal sends you the check at all, or whether it turns out to be any good or not? Because if not, I’ll continue posting (those are my terms) until you get his check and verify that it’s good.
You understand, it would be foolish of me to forgo posting for two minutes, much less for two years, just to learn from you, “Oh, I never got that check from Lib after all” or “I got the check, but it bounced when I tried cashing it” because no one here would blame you as much as they’d blame that weaseling Liberal, who would be out nothing and whose standing in this commmunity couldn’t get much lower no matter what he did. So, if it’s all the same to you, unless you’re making that commitment to owing me $500 personally as of this moment even if Liberal sends you nothing, I’d be much more comfortable starting the clock when you have cashed (or deposited) his check.
In fact, I’m going to insist on that, both because that’s what I’ve stated previously as my terms, and because I’d feel bad if, say, Liberal were to die before mailing you a good check–if I stopped posting, I’d feel bad about insisting that you still owed me money, and I’m pretty sure most of the SDMB would insist that, under those circumstances, you didn’t owe me a thing.
Just fucking go, you slimy ass weasel. He said, “I will leave my son instructions on paying you if I die. Since you have decided to trust me, I will assume responsibility for trusting Liberal and negotiate his payment to me. I will pay the money myself, if he fails to pay me. You have my word, [you] are covered as of this moment.” That answers every one of your dumbass questions. Leave, goddamit.
I have received cash, and other considerations in excess of the agreed upon amount from the poster known as Liberal, and already acknowledged the debt to the poster known as Pseudotriton Ruber Ruber in the amount of 500 dollars, to be paid on the date mentioned. Any other details on the transactions are private matters between the principals. If I fail to pay, either of you may certainly feel justified to post that fact on the board.
Other than silence, the deal is done.
Tris