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blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
> In article <r2mei315gvlthg3o72kuk535o9bs12j56v@4ax.com>,
> Roedy Green  <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:17:34 -0400, "John W. Kennedy"
>> <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
>> said :
>>
>>> Liar! You have repeatedly, and in this very group, characterized as an 
>>> "insult" every case in which you have said P and someone else has said 
>>> ~P. Like the fisherman's wife in the old story, you want to be lord of 
>>> the Sun and the Moon; you want a special arrangement with God so that 
>>> the very universe will rearrange itself to fit your private reality.
>> I have no idea what you are talking about.  Perhaps the offending
>> material is being removed by my killfile filters.
>>
>> Please quote the original insult.  I did not see one.
> 
> I should probably let John speak for himself, but -- I understood
> his remarks ("liar!") to apply to Twisted/Nebulous/Bbound rather
> than to whomever he (?) was accusing of insulting him.  As best
> I can tell, he *does* regard any implication that he's wrong as
> an insult.  I can't be bothered to Google up the backstory in 
> this particular thread, but on many occasions I've observed T/N/B
> replacing something I thought was fairly innocuous with "[ insult
> deleted ]", and my recollection is that that's what happened here.

Precisely. If "Twisted" says, "Pluto was discovered by Percival Lowell", 
and someone else says, "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh", 
"Twisted" declares it to be a personal insult directed at him.
-- 
John W. Kennedy
"Sweet, was Christ crucified to create this chat?"
   -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"