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Posted By: Rich Klein
As some of you know, my niece (by marriage, NO ONE in my family every looked that good) is competing for Miss Texas in about six weeks; and she needs help |
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Very O/T with permission of Leon
Posted By: leon
As a board participant you are allowed on off topic every great once in a while...I think we were saying something about no more than 1 a month and I am not sure I remember you ever doing more than 1 or 2, ever.....Also, after that great lunch we just now had, with your free coupon for those huge sandwiches, how could I say no? The only problem is I am so full I might fall asleep at my desk ....good luck to your niece. She is indeed very pretty...and Childrens Miracle Network is a great cause..... |
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Posted By: Hal Lewis
It would have been a "children's miracle" for me to date anyone that pretty when I was a child. |
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Posted By: Dylan Jasper
I'd like to say that I am as regular of a board participant as anyone here. I read the board everyday, and post nearly everyday. I dont post a lot of threads but when i have they've all been bsaeball card related, and i believe pre war related as well(though there could be one or two, i dont have everything ive written memorized). That being said the morning after smoltz won his 200 game i started a thread in regards to Smoltz HOF chances since he just became the first pitcher in history to acheive 200 wins and 150 saves. I posted early in the morning and had several responses within the first couple hours, later that day i saw my thread was deleted. Now this thread im posting on, which isnt even BASEBALL related has not been deleted. And if the reason is because the person posting is a regular user, like said above by Leon, whats up with that? Am I not a regular user? My post wasnt related to vintage baseball cards, true, but ive seen many threads just like the one i started debating current players Hof chances, and dare i say had Barry, Jim, or someone of the like started the thread, it never would have been deleted. How about MVSNYC's "where'a MVSNYC at" thread. As if that has so much to do with vintage baseball cards. Or how about the thread talking about ARod's hot start this year, or the threads about Bonds HOF chances, or steroid use. In my opinion its favoritism. Robert has a recent thread asking if anyone has paypal coupons!? And that's still there on the main page. My thread was baseball related, and had some interesting debate and responses in the little time it was allowed to be discussed. Better delete that because it'll distract people from reading the threads asking for palpal coupons which are much better reading, not to mention its great relation to vintage baseball cards. If your going to delete all threads not related to vintage baseball cards, fine. If your going to let people post off topic once and a while, fine. But be fair and treat everyone the same. I went through the last 30 days of threads(of which many can be considered O/T) and the handful that i started were all vintage baseball card related. I thought we were allowed one OT thread per month if we are a regular user of the site? Am i missing something here? |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Dylan- I for one don't want to be accorded any special privileges, and while I am guilty of hijacking threads I don't ever recall starting an O/T one (perhaps Barbaro's death is one of my few). |
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Posted By: leon
I didn't delete it. I agree with you 100%, btw......I will look into who did this and take steps so it doesn't happen again. I have left a v-mail for my right hand guy to see if he did it. If he didn't then I will also make sure that it won't happen again...and if he did do it then I will get an explanation. I thought it was a good thread. The one issue I have, if I make it where ONLY I can delete threads (extremely rarely), or revise posts of others (almost never except to resize a scan), is that sometimes I am doing other stuff and it would be a bad thing to only have one person being able to do admin. Again, please accept my apology.....regards |
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Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Is it really necessary to delete threads? Some, myself included, consider that censorship. |
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Posted By: leon
Great minds think alike . Five minutes before you posted I told Brian the same thing, on a phone call, which has been my feeling for some time. The only way we can make the board better is to continually manage it in a productive manner and change as necessary. I feel we try very hard to take everything into consideration, and listen to all feedback in a receptive manner, before we make a change. Everthing we do is given quite a bit of thought and when we do make mistakes we learn from them...A thread will be coming out in the next few hours about one change which is precisely what you alluded to ...thanks for the good feedback |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
I'm all for Leon censoring and deleting as he wishes.... |
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Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Hey Great! |
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Posted By: Dylan
I see, thanks for the response Leon. And i thought it odd that it was deleted not only because of the reasons i listed above, but also because youve said in the past you rarely use your powers to delete threads, only in special circumstances really. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
I didn't realize anyone had invoked the First Amendment. Perhaps they were just objecting to censorship on general principles. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
I'm bumping this up because the tightwads on this board haven't sent hardly any money at all. It is easy, takes about 2 minutes, have your credit card out, do something nice. Help out this Texas gal! |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
You cheap, uncaring folks... |
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Posted By: leon
Your "karma" thought got me....Not that I am obsessed by it by I do try to live that way. Plus "Sarah" is my daughters name, Rich is a good friend, and there really isn't a better charity (other great ones but can't be better, imho)......thanks for the prod.....regards |
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Posted By: Dan Koteles
wonder if there were "SEALS" in Texas ? |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Sarah needs $119 more dollars. A dozen folks send $10 and she's there... |
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Posted By: ralph
I aint sendin no money no how..go get a 2nd job to pay for that crap |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
You were a little kid once, Ralph. And old people did stuff for you without resorting to a second job. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
I'm sorry, Ralph. You were right to be an uncharitable fellow, I apologize for suggesting you should help a charity such as the Miracle Children's Network. |
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Posted By: leon
You can say just about anything you want to but you need to put your full name by your post so we can know who you are. Thanks much..... |
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Posted By: Jeff O
Hey Frank, how about letting everyone decide how to spend and/or donate their own money without referring to them as "tightwads" and "cheap, uncaring folks"? I don't think that the March of Dimes considers me either cheap or uncaring with the donations I've made to them this year, regardless of what decisions I make regarding this opportunity to contribute to another very worthy charity. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Jeff you are absolutely correct. I have over-reacted. |
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Posted By: Jeff O
Frank - first off, I give you all the credit in the world to not having a knee-jerk reaction to my post. I agree with the vast majority of what you wrote in your most recent post, and it comes across as sincere and polite. Thank you (sincerely) for not taking what I wrote too personally. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Amen, Jeff... |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Frank, I may well have contributed but am not going to say, but there are countless worthy charities in this world and I would bet everything I own that many many fine people here give generously of themselves. I don't think it's fair to strong arm people to give to a specific charity, and it is even worse to then insult them as a follow up. I think it was enough that Rich informed us about it. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
Peter, I responded to every email you sent. At length. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
BS Frank, if you must know I contributed this morning. Do you want to see the receipt? And shall I reprint the email I sent asking why you hadn't responded to me and the one you sent back in which you said you were too busy? |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
The time of the email is 1035 AM today. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Peter, I've sent you an email. |
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Posted By: Cat
I doubt that the thermometer counter is a hotlink to the account and counts the donations real-time. Someone likely has to update the $381 by hand. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Cat, Peter, I just turned the PC back on because of a similar thought. My donation registered shortly after I made it. Not immediately, but soon. Maybe there is a greater delay on this holiday. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Frank, what did I do, fabricate the receipt? What do you mean IF? In any event, I continue to agree with the earlier poster that charity should be a private matter. I only posted the evidence because you intimated I was lying. Have a good night. |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Peter, you cheap bastard. I note only 4 xs in that receipt you posted. Only 4 figures? And there better not be a decimal point in there. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Jeff: I've been called worse things. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Peter, the email I sent you came back undelivered. And that $381 figure I recall seeing Saturday is still showing this morning... |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Frank the link to my email should work now. I ask you again: do you REALLY think I am lying about having made a contribution? Did I fabricate the email receipt I reproduced, how would I have known how to do that? Should I also reproduce for the Court a copy of my online American Express statement? What is your point????? EDITED TO ADD Perhaps your recollection of the figure you saw is faulty, or would that possibility not even enter your mind? |
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Posted By: Dave F
Frank..pardon my english, but I believe your being a jerk about this. |
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Posted By: ralph
FRank, |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Dave- as long as you are editing for spelling, it's "you're." |
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Posted By: Dave F
Barry...I try not to look too smart...it intimidates some. |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Hey Ralph, I just took you at your word with your first post about how I ain't sending no money no how.... I figured you meant that. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Frank my guess is that you, the infallible GreatWake, were mistaken in your recollection of what the figure was before my donation. What further damn proof do you want? |
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Posted By: Dave F
I think the cause is great. I think Rich should be proud of a fellow family member for what she is accomplishing. |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
From my online account. |
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Posted By: Dave F
Also Frank, when you make your Humane Society donation please post a copy of the transaction...maybe even an updated copy of your banking statement would also help in assuring me you actually made the donation. |
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Posted By: E, Daniel
Peter S, just so you don't think those reading this thread were similarly suspicous of your honesty, I believed what you had written from the first. |
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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth
Dave, |
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Posted By: Peter Spaeth
Thank you. This person (I have to be careful what I can call a Judge, I guess, being an attorney myself) is really offending me. Obviously the problem is that the great infallible one does not recall the figure correctly prior to my donation, which ended in a "0" so only one digit would have changed after it processed mine. |
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