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Re: Final Question for Sylvia Else (Inability to fullfill contract)

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From: Peter Bowditch
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:09
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"|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstname@ratbags.com> wrote ...
>> "|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> "Sylvia Else" <sylvia@not.here.invalid> wrote
>>>>> OK, your problem as regards litigating against these organisations 
>>>>> before you have a contract with them, or getting a Fair Trading 
>>>
>>>
>>>Isn't Peter's post a contractual offer to set up a test with me?
>>>
>>>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.out-of-body/msg/9ce14f8854504863?hl=en
>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>"|-|erc" <h...@c-h-e-s-s.com> wrote: 
>>>>Probably because I'm in Australia, though they claim to do 
>>>>local preliminary tests which noone has passed. 
>>>
>>>No problem being in Australia, Herc. 
>>>The Australian Skeptics have their own prize (it's only $100,000, but 
>>>it's still worth winning). 
>>>The rules are simple: 
>>>1) Tell us what you are going to do.
>> 
>> Did you do that in unambiguous terms?
>> 
>>>2) Tell us the conditions under which you can do it. For example, if 
>>>it only works on Fridays in rooms with red flock wallpaper we will 
>>>book a suite at Madame Heloise's House of Happiness (I have a frequent 
>>>flocker card).
>> 
>> Did you do that in unambiguous terms? Remember the protocol and
>> conditions have to be mutually agreed, but AS is prepared to
>> accommodate claimants' wishes as far as possible.
>> 
>
>
>You got the protocol COMPLETELY wrong!

What protocol? You didn't agree to one.

>
>I don't send a registered letter with a scientific test protocol with pass and fail
>marks and objective unambiguous procedures.

You don't have to do that, but you do have to come to an agreement
over a "scientific test protocol with pass and fail marks and
objective unambiguous procedures". You didn't. You went straight to
"Pay me or I will poison food".

>
>Look at your website - "tell us what you can do" THAT'S IT!

So, tell us what you can do and why it is paranormal.

>
>It's not MUTUALLY AGREED - it's MUTUALLY WORKED OUT TOGETHER.

Actually, it's both. Tautology is like that.

>
>Ambiguous just means you have to ask me to clarify what I meant!

So start clarifying.

>
>I admit your letter was a bit more rigorous than the website rules, but
>I tried, tried tried tried tried tried and tried again to persuade Barry to
>work out a test protocol with me, for 74 pages of emails until I said STUFFIT.

And after you said "STUFFIT" you threatened to poison food.

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