Originally posted by Grampy BobbyFirst it was two years ago and now it's "several years ago". Why didn't you have six Californian friends in your "anecdote" ~ wouldn't that have made your point more forcefully?
This conversation, which occurred during a phone call several years ago, was with a friend whose decisions I respect as he also respects mine.
Originally posted by FMFWhether it was "two" or three years ago I'm no longer certain though it was since my return following recovery from partial paralysis early April, 2012. There were four other people I also attempted to recruit as site members: 1) A woman from another part of this country who declined for undisclosed personal reasons; 2) One of my three brothers who joined and is still active; 3) Two from two other online correspondence chess sites [one also from this country who declined due to ill health and the other from a foreign country who declined because of his perceptions of the language barrier]. How does this recruiting success rate of one of five or 20% compare with your own personal recruiting efforts on behalf of Red Hot Pawn?
First it was two years ago and now it's "several years ago". Why didn't you have six Californian friends in your "anecdote" ~ wouldn't that have made your point more forcefully?
Originally posted by FMFOriginally posted by FMF
First it was two years ago and now it's "several years ago". Why didn't you have six Californian friends in your "anecdote" ~ wouldn't that have made your point more forcefully?
"Why didn't you have six Californian friends in your "anecdote" ~ wouldn't that have made your point more forcefully?"
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Facts have the intrinsic capacity to stand on their own two feet. I have no interest in creative embellishments which may appeal to you.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyAt a rough count, I've brought about 24 people to this web site over the years.
How does this recruiting success rate of one of five or 20% compare with your own personal recruiting efforts on behalf of Red Hot Pawn?
Now, just to be clear, are you insisting that your "anecdote" on page 5 about your Californian friend is true and not something that you have made up for the purposes of self-serving forum banter?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyNothing you are saying here is appealing to me. I think you are currently at some sort of low point for your forum persona. The question remains: do you think that if you had increased the number of people in your "anecdote" it would have made your self-promotion point more forcefully?
Facts have the intrinsic capacity to stand on their own two feet. I have no interest in creative embellishments which may appeal to you.
Originally posted by FMFPlease see my last reply to divegeester on the previous page. Having done so, cease and desist from your interrogation or it will become harassment.
At a rough count, I've brought about 24 people to this web site over the years.
Now, just to be clear, are you insisting that your "anecdote" on page 5 about your Californian friend is true and not something that you have made up for the purposes of self-serving forum banter?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYou have made rather creepy suggestions and insinuations in public that some of your fellow posters - whom you disapprove of and who are unimpressed by you and your antics here, and post accordingly - are causing a loss of income for Russ. That's you at your risible pompous-passive-aggressive worst, Gramp Bobby. You cannot now evade scrutiny of what you have said by trying to frame dissent and criticism as some kind of persecution.
Please see my last reply to divegeester on the previous page. Having done so, cease and desist from your interrogation or it will become harassment.
Originally posted by FMFThis fundamental misstatement of fact has been noted.
You have made rather creepy suggestions and insinuations in public that some of your fellow posters - whom you disapprove of and who are unimpressed by you and your antics here, and post accordingly - are causing a loss of income for Russ. That's you at your risible pompous-passive-aggressive worst, Gramp Bobby. You cannot now evade scrutiny of what you have said by trying to frame dissent and criticism as some kind of persecution.
Originally posted by FMF (Page 2)
"I didn't ask a question in the post you were referring to. And I don't obsess about thumbs down in the way Grampy Bobby does, so all you've got to offer here is a swish and a blurt, yet again. 😉"
Originally posted by Suzianne
"Deflect all you want, the fact is you have precious little other than lame attacks on someone others love to see attacked. You cowardly play to the crowd."
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYou asked this direct question and lacked the good grace to acknowledge my direct answer. Perhaps it was inconvenient for you.
How does this recruiting success rate of one of five or 20% compare with your own personal recruiting efforts on behalf of Red Hot Pawn?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIs this, in a roundabout way, and at long last, you reprimanding Suzianne for her infamous lack of civility? 😉
Originally posted by FMF (Page 2)
"I didn't ask a question in the post you were referring to. And I don't obsess about thumbs down in the way Grampy Bobby does, so all you've got to offer here is a swish and a blurt, yet again. 😉"
Originally posted by Suzianne
"Deflect all you want, the fact is you have precious little other than lame attacks on someone others love to see attacked. You cowardly play to the crowd."
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you’d be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!
Jack Prelutsky, Born: 1940. "From The New Kid on the Block,
published by Greenwillow, 1984"
Subject: The chess mentors you've been privileged to have over the years;
here's a thread from October, 2014, which profiles mine: Thread 161123