[Rhodes22-list] Re: List etiquette. Inflammatory rhetoric

[Herb Parsons]

Well, you're partially correct, you should be embarrassed...

Herb Parsons

S/V O'Jure
  1976 O'Day 25
  Lake Grapevine, N TX

S/V Reve de Papa
  1971 Coronado 35
  Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast

>>> bill at effros.com 10/1/2005 11:37:19 AM >>>
Thanks for the compliment, Herb, it's almost embarrassing.

Bill Effros

Herb Parsons wrote:

>Well, since you've decided to make our private conversation public, I'll respond publicly:
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>To all (including Saroj):
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>My reference to Saroj as a "bitch" in no way questioned her sexual proclivities or her ancestry. My reference was as one who complains without cause and out of ignorance. One who sails is a sailor. One who bitches is a bitch.
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>If anyone received the statement in any other way, I apologize for my misinterpreted statement, but NOT for the sentiment.
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>Misconstruing one's personal beliefs is a personal attack, whether it is couched in politically correct language or not. I have never "met" more intelligent, well meaning people than some of those I've met on here. At the same time, I've never met more ignorant, close-minded, hateful people that some of those that I've met on here. I'll leave it up to the list to decide which individuals fit into which categories.
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>Herb Parsons
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>S/V O'Jure
>  1976 O'Day 25
>  Lake Grapevine, N TX
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>S/V Reve de Papa
>  1971 Coronado 35
>  Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
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>>>><R22RumRunner at aol.com> 10/1/2005 11:09:09 AM >>>
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>Herb.
>I'm not going to debate this with you. Calling Saroj a "bitch" is  
>unacceptable. Having an intelligent discussion is acceptable. We all agree that  we 
>don't all agree, but can discuss it without inflammatory rhetoric. Telling  
>someone to "fuck off" is acceptable bar language. Name calling is not. It will  get 
>you into a fight in any bar I've ever been in and that's why I stay out of  
>bars. The more I drink the worse my vocabulary becomes and I end up doing things 
> I might later consider stupid.
> 
>Rummy
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