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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Some of the Errant Threads have been bumped, so no doubt more Sanctimonious Tosh will shortly be on its way through cyberspace.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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...
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?
As to a deadline, well, no doubt we'll be told soon enough if we'vehe's missed it.
ROFL
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...
Agreed.
That exact phrase has been floating in my reprehensible mind as well.
IOW, you can't believe, or trust, a word he says. Specious mendacity, the lot of it.
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!
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.
Perhaps I'll be taken up into heaven in a fiery chari...
That brings back many fond memories, unlike the assorted threads on Purgatory that all begin with the same errant phrase.
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 finding out here who's naughty, not nice.
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.
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.
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...
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...
If JBII shows up on Twitter ALL will be confirmed.
I would have thought it would be intriguing.
I wonder if he can see what I'm doing here.
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.
Not that it would sell, of course...
The Bumper Book of Martin54's Gnomic Utterances or How To Apologise by Gamma Gamaliel stand a greater chance of publication.
"My threads," indeed.
10/10 and a gold star if you answer correctly. 🙄🙄
But sir sir sir - the dog ate my homework!
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