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To: Osage Orange
...Lying? No idea what you're referring to there.

As far as "reading a post and then posting" goes, you replied to the original poster of the article, so one would assume that you were making a post that was relative to the article. The article was about Google's alleged censorship of blogs. If you simply read that article and were replying directly to it, then your post makes no sense within the context and is irrelevant. If you were instead reading the comments that preceded yours and were replying to one or more of those, then your post is still irrelevant since the posts that preceded yours were on-topic discussions of Google's censorship and were specifically on the subject of boycotting Google. When you read a post, then post in reply, one would hope that that post would have some sort of relevance to the subject at hand. Yours, by your own admission, did not.

Honestly, I don't know what your problem is with me. You posted "Use Dogpile" -- two words with no other explanation of your intent. In the context, it was perfectly reasonable to assume that you were suggesting to use Dogpile as an alternative to Google in order to avoid being a patron of Google. I was simply trying to politely point out to you and to others that Dogpile is a metasearch that uses Google, so if the presumed purpose was to avoid using Google, Dogpile is not the answer. That's all! A perfectly reasonable post in the context of the article and the thread at hand.

You apparently took it as a personal insult -- though I can't fathom why you would -- and replied quite curtly, "I'm a FReeper. I know things. And I know that."

Now I ask you: Was that an appropriate response to my post, which was simply offering people some information about Dogpile, relevant to the "boycotting" discussion at hand? I don't know why you would think my post was intended to be any sort of personal affront on you at all.

Looking at your posting history, I notice that you seem to enjoy making these types of posts. You post something that consists of just a few words, then take umbrage at those who apparently "misinterpret" your posts within the context of the thread. Then there begins a back-and-forth between them and you, with your posts exhibiting the same sort of indignant, deliberate ambiguity that is displayed here in this thread. If this is some sort of game you like to play for your own amusement, I'm not playing anymore.

Let's drop it.

78 posted on 07/01/2008 9:27:41 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
You obviously have way too much time on your hands there Chief.

You've attempted to make me rise to your little petty bait...more than once now. I could careless what you think, and how you interpreted my posts.

You are obviously a much better person than I.....because you told me you were.

Great....I'm good with whatever you happen to think of yourself.

79 posted on 07/01/2008 10:36:18 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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