What to do with an errant James Boswell II

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  • I hadn't seen these chunks of semi-fiction, plus FIRST ARGUMENT. Surely this is an art installation, and may be up for the Turner prize. It is very comical. I will allow a short period of time, so that you can reply.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    Well, thank you so much for the allowance of time. It has been very much appreciated, I can assure you.

    I can also now reveal that, for your delight, and delectation, SECOND ARGUMENT has been published!

    It is, also, comical.

    I wonder if The Professor will produce THIRD ARGUMENT, thus blasphemously replicating the Most Holy, and Undivided, Trinity?
  • You know the universe doesn't work like that. But if I see he and Rublev are on a roll, I leave them to it.
  • Wise move.

    I see from either the Condemn or the My God, My God thread (I can't tell them apart) that The Professor regards me as an Enemy, for which, frankly, I give not a fig.

    He has, however, threatenedpromised to answer my questions about St Dismas, but only in his (The Professor's) own good time.

    Somehow, I don't think my end-of-term results are going to be worth much...
    :cold_sweat:
  • Indeed, and he's still wittering on, in multiple posts, on the 'Errant John the Baptist' thread, clearly taking no notice of what's going on down here.

    What a waste of time, and effort. Very sad.

    Having now looked at that thread, I'm amazed by how often a question gets repeated, in the hope that someone will answer it. Is it my imagination or is there a note of increasing exasperation in the repititions?
  • Perhaps he's on a deadline...
  • He's certainly getting exasperated.

    As to a deadline, well, no doubt we'll be told soon enough if we'vehe's missed it.
  • Chaps, I will answer all your questions, but first I insist we have a little discussion, you start.
    Doc Tor wrote: »
    Perhaps he's on a deadline...

    ROFL
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    I'm amazed by how often a question gets repeated, in the hope that someone will answer it. Is it my imagination or is there a note of increasing exasperation in the repititions?
    I think he's got it through his head that he oughtn't to monopolise the thread so he can't post his screed until someone else has had a say. And yet I have this feeling that he's still more interested in telling us his firmly held opinions than anyone else is in finding out.

  • Martin54 wrote: »
    You know the universe doesn't work like that. But if I see he and Rublev are on a roll, I leave them to it.
    Yes, but I do feel like saying “Get a room.”
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Martin54 wrote: »
    You know the universe doesn't work like that. But if I see he and Rublev are on a roll, I leave them to it.
    Yes, but I do feel like saying “Get a room.”

    O I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought that! I didn't like to say it out loud, but as this is Hell...
    :naughty:

  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Martin54 wrote: »
    You know the universe doesn't work like that. But if I see he and Rublev are on a roll, I leave them to it.
    Yes, but I do feel like saying “Get a room.”

    Agreed.

  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Martin54 wrote: »
    You know the universe doesn't work like that. But if I see he and Rublev are on a roll, I leave them to it.
    Yes, but I do feel like saying “Get a room.”

    That exact phrase has been floating in my reprehensible mind as well.
  • Alas! My innocence has been destroyed....
  • He said he can't answer people because he's going away. Let's see if this is true, or if it's just an excuse to not answer people.
  • A long-ish post appeared on t'other thread, just after he'd posted that obviously empty promise on whichever-thread-it-was.

    IOW, you can't believe, or trust, a word he says. Specious mendacity, the lot of it.
    :angry:

    But he calls me 'O Mine Enemy', which sounds rather Biblical. David confronting Nathan? Class/gang/cohort (delete as applicable), please look up your Bibles, and let me know.

    Meanwhile, I'm flattered.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    A long-ish post appeared on t'other thread, just after he'd posted that obviously empty promise on whichever-thread-it-was.

    IOW, you can't believe, or trust, a word he says. Specious mendacity, the lot of it.
    :angry:

    But he calls me 'O Mine Enemy', which sounds rather Biblical. David confronting Nathan? Class/gang/cohort (delete as applicable), please look up your Bibles, and let me know.

    Meanwhile, I'm flattered.

    Psalm 13:2 "how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?" Hear that? You're exalted!
  • Thank you. You may go to the top of the class.
    :wink:

    Meanwhile, there are a couple of other verses:

    1 Kings 21:20

    And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.


    Not David and Nathan, but still in good company.

    And a Norful Warning (to me, that is):

    Micah 7:8

    Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    It was the 1Kings reference I had in mind.
  • Good! You may sit with Lyda at the top of the class.

    Perhaps I'll be taken up into heaven in a fiery chari...
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Charabanc? Appealingly democratic.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Lothlorien wrote: »
    Richard Scarry’s Little Richard books. Lowly worm was on every page, hidden in an illustration. My sons, as little boys, delighted in finding him as we turned the pages. He was much more entertaining than the subject of this hell call and taught by stealth, not by drumming his opinions down the throats of his readers.
    My daughters, too, loved Lowly Worm; the elder had a Lowly Worm doll - a very simple matter of stuffed printed cloth - from whom she could not be parted.

    That brings back many fond memories, unlike the assorted threads on Purgatory that all begin with the same errant phrase.


  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    Some of the Errant Threads have been bumped, so no doubt more Sanctimonious Tosh will shortly be on its way through cyberspace.
    :grimace:

    My fellow-Reader preached for just four (yes! FOUR!) minutes at Mass this morning, and said more of practical use than I've found in many a much longer sermon, or disquisition, or thread...
  • I'm making a list, I'm checking it twice,
    I'm finding out here who's naughty, not nice.

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    :scream:
  • Good grief, this is like kindergarten.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    More on the level of the House of CommonsToddlers, but yes...

    The trouble is that the subject of the Hell call simply refuses to play, or dance, but carries on pouring out his inane quasi-scholarly drivel in Purgatory.
  • LOL says Errant James.
  • He's still doing it. On and on and on it goes. And it's clear from his responses here he doesn't give a fuck what anybody thinks about him. Egomaniac.
  • Oh I do care. But all I want is civil discussion on my threads. See the latest.
  • Oh come on James Boswell II.
    Here's what we'll do. You'll tell us how you propose to improve your contributions. And then you make some more proposals.
    And then we'll tell you how to improve. We're making a list and you'll get to see it. Have some patience.
  • What's all this about my threads?

    They're our threads, open to all (as long as we keep to the guidelines etc.). When I last looked, The Egomaniac Professor wasn't a Host, or an Admin (may peace be upon them, and may they live for ever)!

    Has The Professor of Tosh bought the Ship? I think we should be told...
    :fearful:
  • He couldn't get Greenland...
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    O Horror!

    You mean...our revered Professor is TRUMP ????

    No - it cannot be. The Lord of Tosh is capable of forming sentences (of incredible prolixity), whereas the Great Orange Goblin...well...
    :flushed:
  • MWAH-ha-ha-HA-ha [twirls mustache]. Prolixity, well, they both have it, haven't they? The subject matter may differ a trifle, but grad students and proofreaders can be found for cheap...

    If JBII shows up on Twitter ALL will be confirmed.
  • It's been a whole hour and James Boswell II hasn't responded to my post. I mean, come on. Aren't you going to respond? You just need to have some patience.
    I would have thought it would be intriguing.

    I wonder if he can see what I'm doing here.
  • I think he checks in from time to time, but either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
    :wink:
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    Oh I do care. But all I want is civil discussion on my threads.
    Your posts do not bear that out. In your posts, you constantly pontificate and lecture. If someone says something you like, you give them a gold star. If someone says something you don’t like, or has the temerity yo question or disagree with you, you say something along the lines of “this is idiotic. Let us go back to the matter at hand.”

    And you constantly try to create cliffhangers about what you think.

    You don’t want civil discussion. You just want us to be impressed enough with what you know and how you open our eyes to things we’ve never noticed before that we’ll buy your book.

    And yeah—“my threads”? Just another example of how you’ve never bothered to learn how the Ship works, or to learn the difference between places for discussion and a blog. You’ve even referred to threads as “this blog.”

    You started the threads. That does not make them your threads. Once you’ve started it, you really have no control over what happens in it. Discussions will go where they will, as long as they don’t stray too far off course. You don’t get to tell anyone what they can and can’t talk about.

    Your plea for civil discourse rings hollow when you so regularly show a lack of civility and respect in your own bloviating discourse.
  • It might also be worth pointing out that, AIUI, everything Shipmates post here becomes the Ship's in terms of copyright.
  • Shared copyright, to be clear. The poster does not lose the right to republish his/her own work. But then, neither does the Ship. Which our prolix friend might want to contemplate.
  • You mean - the Ship could publish a novel, based on our prolix friend's posts?

    Not that it would sell, of course...
  • If he posted the whole thing, I suppose they'd have a legal leg to stand on. Though I'm fairly sure the warning was set in place not to enable such stunts but rather to allow the Powers That Be to (if they chose) create a "Best of" document (article, webpage, booklet, whatever) or to republish as stand-alones such gems as the Nativity Play etc. Not that that has ever happened to my knowledge, but the legal possibility exists if (say) something was ever contemplated.
  • Though I'm fairly sure the warning was set in place not to enable such stunts but rather to allow the Powers That Be to (if they chose) create a "Best of" document (article, webpage, booklet, whatever) or to republish as stand-alones such gems as the Nativity Play etc.
    You're begging the question that anything that JBII might post would make it into a "Best Of" document.

    The Bumper Book of Martin54's Gnomic Utterances or How To Apologise by Gamma Gamaliel stand a greater chance of publication.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Doc Tor wrote: »
    You're begging the question that anything that JBII might post would make it into a "Best Of" document.

    The Bumper Book of Martin54's Gnomic Utterances or How To Apologise by Gamma Gamaliel stand a greater chance of publication.
    Oh, thank you! That made me laugh out loud.

    "My threads," indeed.


  • Well said, but can you see another reason for assuming historicity? Read the text carefully.

    10/10 and a gold star if you answer correctly. 🙄🙄
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    From his manner of posing questions and demanding answers, and the fact that he says he lives in Bloomington-Normal (in the dreaded flatlands of Downstate Illinois), I suspect that Our James is an instructor at Illinois State University - and not one who gets high marks in his students' end-of-semester teacher surveys. It would explain a great deal.


  • No essay question. It's right there before your eyes.

    But sir sir sir - the dog ate my homework!

    🐶 🐶 🐶
  • It also means we can quote each other's posts without fear of being sued.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Boogie wrote: »
    No essay question. It's right there before your eyes.

    But sir sir sir - the dog ate my homework!

    🐶 🐶 🐶
    At least you've got the excuse of having a dog ... :mrgreen:
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