Bob,

Welcome back ....now we get to see YOUR lame posts again- Will check
with my accountant to see if might do this again- it was actually quite
rewarding... despite what your EGO thinks...
Did you get the 'gift' ?

Talk with you soon..

Ken

Reef Fish wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:32:17 -0700, Kenneth Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Note the DATE!  It was posted 9 days after Ken had offered his counter-
> wager, which I ACCEPTED, and he was now making a lame attempt to trick
> me into a reply to lose my 20G.  What a Dreamer!  :-)
>
> >Bob, BTW, found this site today (didn't look for it- it was presented to
> >me)- http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame41.html
>
> Obviously someone was using Ken as his puppet, and fed him what he
> thought was an original discovery.  Ken also paid for the SINS of his
> puppeteers too!
> >
> >Now, Crusty, I don't mind if you take off with my portion of this... :)
>
> Well, Ken was only SEVEN MONTHS late.  I had already CLAIMED that title
> myself in January 2001.  Pity.  If you and Don Ward knew how to use
> the archives to ascertain facts, you would've NOT put yourself in the
> silly position of thinking you had discovered something clever or funny.
>
> Below is excerpted from MY POST in Jaunary:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:18:55 +0700, Bjorn Vang Jensen
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >While cleaning up my Favorites section in MSIE, I came across this little
> >gem which I wish I had remembered back in the SCUBA-L days:
> >http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
>
> RF>  LOL!  Like your run-in with Nick the Netiquette Nazi?  :-)
> >
> >Now we can have some fun sticking labels on each other :-)
>
> RF>  Better still, let posters stick labels on themselves FIRST!  :-)
>
> RF>  Let me be the first to 'fess up to be an Archivist Kung-Fu Master,
>
> And Don Ward, who potificates about Scuba-L NOT having any non-scuba
> posts, and also didn't care to check any FACTS in the archives when he
> pontificates, chimed in:
>
> At 05:32 PM 7/9/01 -0700, Kenneth Smith wrote:
> >Bob, BTW, found this site today (didn't look for it- it was presented to
> >me)- http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame41.html
>
> Don> That's great!
>
> Yup.  Don had INFINITELY more non-scuba posts in Scuba-L and Scuba-SE
> than I had the past three months.  :-)  In raw numbers, the number of
> Don's non-scuba posts was AWESOME, in BOTH groups!  <sigh>
>
> I've told you guys and other pontificators and obfuscators that you
> should use the ARCHIVES more often.  :-)  Go Yee forth and Multiply!
>
> Sorry guys, for my late reply!   ;-)
>
> As the sayings go:  "better late than never" and "he who laughs last ..."
>
> Okay.  Enough of this crap.  Now I need to go pack for my 17,000-mile
> trip to begin about 8 hours from now.   :-)
>
> Adios.
>
> -- Bob.
>
> Self-proclaimed (in Jan 2001) "Archivist" and "Kung-Fu Master", and
> can point to the archives to prove it!  <G>