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rockrr: "I’ve never seen anyone - oldtimer or other - that ever did anything as silly as those boilerplate “20th attempt” thingies. Pathetic."

Sad to say, I taught him that little maneuver, several months ago, but in my case it was legit.
Then as now FLT-bird was dominating a CW thread, with many lengthy posts repeating the same arguments over & over.
So I started counting them up.
He never "got" the message, but picked up on that technique, applying it indiscriminately regardless of what I post to him.

On another thread I noticed where an amused spectator and central_va were speculating on the soldierly qualities of our comrade-in-arms, wbarmy.
Their discussion went like this:

"It's interesting to read the opinions of people like wbarmy on the Internet, when we know that wbarmy would have soiled himself if asked to walk across the field of Pickett's Charge.
The critics of Robert E. Lee are yellow revisionist dogs."

central_va: "He would of turned tail long before hitting Emmitsburg Pike."

They're on the wrong track here, wbarmy would be on the east side of The Angle, I think with the 69th PA fighting Irish who took the brunt from Armistead & Garnett after most of the 71st PA & 58th NY skedaddled.
But it's an interesting idea -- where would we put our FRiends FLT-bird & DiogenesLamp in such a scenario?

They come on strong, attack wildly, but then disappear when the opposition gets too heavy.
I'm thinking maybe a John Bell Hood, one of Jefferson Davis' favorite young generals.