"Ed" <edrhodes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sep 4, 3:32 am, "RJM" <scratch....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Ed" <edrho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Sep 3, 5:20 pm, Mark Lewis <Scottishsold...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> On Sep 3, 10:46 am, Ed <edrho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >> > On Aug 22, 5:32 pm, Sylvia <syl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >> > > Hey! Remember this?
>>
>> >> > > "Did you ever hear of us going back to bomb Vietnam
>> >> > > in 1974? Probably not. You were too nitwitted to even
>> >> > > pick up a paper back then. I was in the Vietnam area in
>> >> > > 1974 with USS Ranger which bombed Hanoi after Nixon
>> >> > > resigned. Look it up. Learn something for a change. "
>>
>> >> > > -- Ray Haddad disparages Miz Sylvia for
>> >> > > pointing
>> >> > > out that his "22 year military career" is
a
>> >> > > LIE
>> >> > > http://tinyurl.com/25r5jx
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>> >> > > MAGIC part: Haddad bombed Hanoi all the way from California!
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>> >> > > "I worked for Chuck Martinez Magicians' World in San Diego
>> >> > > at their Escondido shop (which I managed) in 1974-75 and
was
>> >> > > paid at whatever the prevailing minimum wage was at the
>> >> > > time."
>>
>> >> > > -- Ray Haddad, San Diego Minimum Wage Store Clerk
>> >> > > http://tinyurl.com/23pbwd
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>> >> > don't see the claimed inconsistency here. There are 12 months in
>> >> > 1974
>> >> > just as there are for other years. Ray could well have finished
out
>> >> > his military service early in 1974, been discharged, gotten a job
at
>> >> > "Magician's World" and worked there through the rest of '74 and
>> >> > through '75.- Hide quoted text -
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>> >> And so what if there is an inconsistency? So what if Ray is being
>> >> economical with the truth? What Sylvia fails to grasp is that none
of
>> >> us care!
>>
>> >> He is not a serial murderer in his spare time. (as far we know
anyway)
>> >> He doesn't mug old ladies, He doesn't set fire to houses. All he
does
>> >> is torture innocent audiences with the bra trick.
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>> >> No big deal. Why the overreaction?- Hide quoted text -
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>> > There you go. Mark Lewis has spoken and the truth has been heard!
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>> > Mind you, Sylvia still isn't going to get it!
>>
>> Nor, I regret to tell you, are a majority of MIGS in MW.
>> Ray is a liar. He lies as if he were performing sleight of hand
>> before a sceptical audience he has badly misjudged. He is
>> a liar without ****tfolio. I should tell you that I believe some of
>> Ray's claims. I believe he spent time in the US military. The
>> reality, I believe, is that his service time was fairly ordinary, that
>> he came out with a pension for life, and that is his life. Not to
>> say, his living. I also believe he has tried different career options,
>> including as a third rate magician. I believe he is ordinary.
>
> There's a movie I saw once. "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"
> concerned a group of Americans on a "7 days, 7 countries" vacation.
>
> In a scene set in a plaza in Italy, this father is showing his kids
> how he and his men worked their way through this plaza during the war,
> fighting off a batallion of German soldiers. At the other end of the
> plaza, a German tourist is busy talking to <his> kids, and although
> they don't translate it, you soon realize he's talking about the exact
> same battle, telling his kids how he and his men worked their way
> through the plaze fighting off a batallion of American soldiers! The
> two parties cross the plaza, passing each other, oblivious to each
> other's presence, secure in the knowledge that <their> version of the
> events is the true one. We're the only ones who get to see that
> they're contradicting each other.
I'm impressed, of course, by the originality and intellectual rigour of
your example.
> Even if Ray is just one of those grumpy old men sitting on this
> virtual ****ch telling us how he single-handly won Vietnam and worked
> with the USO at the same time, what of it? He still handles himself
> with more class and dignity than Sylvia or her followers.
I suggest that Ray is handling you with the plausibility and intellectual
bankruptcy of his example.
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