Post Critical of Ric Dealers was pulled

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:25 am

You think that's bad, try getting zinged by the highest of the high on this board!

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:37 am

Oh, get over it Jerry, that was nothing! You didn't even make thread-stopper status for me as some others have.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:51 am

Mr. JH sir,
It was nothing to me but bizarre. I still play your dang guitars!

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Thu May 06, 2004 9:25 am

More than anything my participation here is rumor control when it really should be to impart information not generally known or otherwise available.

When I hear someone perpetuating myths or even embellishing on them, especially when it's going to result in more non-productive work for our customer service staff, I'm going to speak up. I'm not sure why you would find that bizarre.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu May 06, 2004 9:51 am

peace

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu May 06, 2004 10:07 am

I have imparted a few good thread stoppers in my time here, especially early on.
I was also thinking about this thread this morning. I have learned a lot from reading Peter's diplomatic responses and his subtle way of changing the tone of some of the threads here that could have easily gotten out of hand. He is a model of diplomacy but gets his meaning across without offending people which is something I admire in people because often I do not have that abilty.

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Sun May 09, 2004 3:31 am

I love this place!

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue May 11, 2004 12:17 pm

JH wrote:

"When I hear someone perpetuating myths or even embellishing on them, especially when it's going to result in more non-productive work for our customer service staff, I'm going to speak up. I'm not sure why you would find that bizarre."

I agree with you John. It is unfortunate that fighting misinformation is such an uphill battle.

I've run into great resistance at times when trying to set the record straight, for example when someone refers to the Civil War battle between Monitor and Merrimac and I point out that there was no ship named C.S.S Merrimac (the Northern ship Merrimac, sunk by the South, was later raised by the South, refitted as an ironclad, and rechristened C.S.S. Virginia, which was its name when it fought Monitor).

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Tue May 11, 2004 12:34 pm

Gary -

To me, there WAS a Merrimac. There was also a battle of Antietam Creek (at which one of my ancestors fought), but NOT a battle of Sharpsburg

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:19 pm

John, I know trivia but not that many details of the Civil War, so I miss the full meaning of that statement!

Although I had an ancestor (my maternal great-great-great-grandfather) who fought in the Revolutionary War, I'm not familiar with what my ancestors did during the Civil War, although I'm pretty sure they all (both sides of the family) were living in the North at the time. Time to get the family histories out and read them again!

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:14 pm

Umm...Gary, don't you mean the War Between The States?

That's what I was taught!

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:22 am

When I was in grade [a.k.a. elementary] school back in the politcally incorrect late '50s to early '60s, it was called the Civil War.

Of course, "civil war" is a great oxymoron!

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:43 am

Where I live now some of my students call it "The War of Northern Aggression." Yes, I am a carpetbagger.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Sat May 15, 2004 4:07 pm

John, I can't begin to count the times I heard "The South will rise again" when I lived in Mobile for five years.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:38 am

HEY!! I live only a couple of minutes from where the Battle of Sharps----, I mean Antietam was fought!! I've even got a couple of bullets that I found....nearby.