[PCCraig]

Gib,

I don't know you personally, and you seem like a fine guy. However, your writing style is just so far over the top that I can barely read it. I get that it's your style and I understand everything your saying...but it's unreadable.

And all this talk of who's "dagger" is longer and throwing cherry bombs is really pathetic when we're all just a group of guys on a golf course discussion board. To each their own I suppose...

[PCCraig]

Also, going back to the first post of this thread...I don't know what's worse: a thread started by Anthony or a thread about him. 

[Joe Bausch]

Years ago one of my brothers told me to be careful getting into a written sparring match with someone that buys ink by the gallon.

[Gib_Papazian]

Joe,

I have discovered that JC is the rubber faced guy at the circus. No matter how many baseballs you drill him with, he is either impervious to pain or too stupid to know he is being insulted. I can't believe I'm rooting for the Irish tonight, but there it is.

Pat,

The beauty of America is the concept of choice. You can CHOOSE not to subject your delicate sensibilities to my "unreadable" writing. Just so you know, I am deliberately trying to be bombastic, over-the-top and imperious. It is meant for entertainment - but not everyone likes the Grateful Dead or Chuck Thompson or Robert Altman movies.

So, instead of whining about your difficulties in wading through my discursive prose while simultaneously holding your nose (is yours up JC's?), just skip to the next thread. We won't miss you, honest. Most people seem to like my writing and I have 600 checks made out in my name to prove it.

Your last post betrays your obscured agenda. Anthony is my friend and one of the singularly most genuine, eclectic personalities it has ever been my extreme pleasure to hang with - both in Bandon and our modest little hamlet here in Northern California.

I thought that writing about our dinner might be an amusing side note to the usual geological examinations on sand varieties and their effect on wedge design. Maybe you did not find it worth a read and maybe you just don't like Anthony.

You are correct: "To each his own."

Do me a favor and skip over my musings in the future - assuming I ever return to GCA more than intermittently.  

[PCCraig]

Joe,

I have discovered that JC is the rubber faced guy at the circus. No matter how many baseballs you drill him with, he is either impervious to pain or too stupid to know he is being insulted. I can't believe I'm rooting for the Irish tonight, but there it is.

Pat,

 Just so you know, I am deliberately trying to be bombastic, over-the-top and imperious.

No shit.

So, instead of whining about your difficulties in wading through my discursive prose while simultaneously holding your nose (is yours up JC's?), just skip to the next thread. We won't miss you, honest. Most people seem to like my writing and I have 600 checks made out in my name to prove it.

I'm not whining, I only called your posts unreadable and over-the-top...which they are. I'm glad you and a few other people think they are funny, but just because I don't doesn't mean I have my nose up JC's (I've never met JC, only exchanged PM's once or twice). 

Your last post betrays your obscured agenda. Anthony is my friend and one of the singularly most genuine, eclectic personalities it has ever been my extreme pleasure to hang with - both in Bandon and our modest little hamlet here in Northern California.

Next time you want to profess your man-love for Anthony send him an e-mail directly instead of infesting this website with another similar post. It's great you met another friend off the site, we all have met someone interesting from here at some point, but we all don't start a thread just to tell everyone about it.

I thought that writing about our dinner might be an amusing side note to the usual geological examinations on sand varieties and their effect on wedge design. Maybe you did not find it worth a read and maybe you just don't like Anthony.

It was worth a read as evidenced that I actually read it, but after reading it I thought it was so over the top and poorly done that I stated my previous opinion.


You are correct: "To each his own."

Do me a favor and skip over my musings in the future - assuming I ever return to GCA more than intermittently.  

It wouldn't be a problem skipping over your posts if they all weren't so longwinded and didn't take up so much space on our computer screen. As for your thinly veiled threat to distance yourself from the site: best of luck in your future endeavors...

[paul cowley]

less ego banter is more,  .

[Patrick_Mucci]

Pat Craig,

Please find your own ink !

[Melvyn Morrow]

Pat

What is wrong with you? Is your life so starved of kindness, love or affection that you hate to see others enjoying and sharing their experiences both on topic or off?

Why are you so spiteful if Gib or anyone else wants to acknowledge let alone share an experience with a fellow human being. The world is full of bad news and hate that it’s good to see that we can reach out for each other from time to time.

Instead of moaning and dropping in your bile you should thank Gib for posting this topic. Anthony has a true human heart, pity you could not learn something from this topic, it might melt your icy heart or is it as I suspect totally artificial. You just never learn do you.

Melvyn

[Patrick_Mucci]

Melvyn,

So people aren't confused, please edit your reply and add the letter "C" after "Pat"

It's bad enough that he's stealing my ink, I don't want undeserved admonishments misconstrued as intended for me.

Thanks

[Melvyn Morrow]

Patrick

I notice my omission once it was posted, but as my edit facility does not work I am unable to make any changes.

For the record I was of course not referring to you but Pat Craig and his slithering ways

Melvyn

[RJ_Daley]

I only hope that when  Anthony is recuperated from his back surgery, an opportunity will come along for Gib to travel to the country roads environs of the painless dentist, and tell us about the reciprocated dinner party.  Then, it is Anthony's turn to give us some prose and deliciously descriptive account of Mr. Gib; dinner date, aging 'dead head', scribe, raccantuer, libertarian philosopher-inactivist, golfer, produce purveyor - a true renaissance man.

But, could it get any better if JC was also included in the next to last supper, and could give us his interpretations in 'gonzo journalistic sytle' of the gastronomic hedonism and discourse that would take place on such an evening?  Of course all literary submissions will be critiqued by the class here on GCA.com, as always.  

[PCCraig]

Pat Craig,

Please find your own ink !

Will do.

[PCCraig]

Pat

What is wrong with you? Is your life so starved of kindness, love or affection that you hate to see others enjoying and sharing their experiences both on topic or off?

Why are you so spiteful if Gib or anyone else wants to acknowledge let alone share an experience with a fellow human being. The world is full of bad news and hate that it’s good to see that we can reach out for each other from time to time.

Instead of moaning and dropping in your bile you should thank Gib for posting this topic. Anthony has a true human heart, pity you could not learn something from this topic, it might melt your icy heart or is it as I suspect totally artificial. You just never learn do you.

Melvyn

Melyvn:

Thank you so much for posting your thoughts, or lack thereof, in this thread now that it seemingly interests you.

[Adam Clayman]

Pat Mucci. There's no chance of anyone mistaking who Melvyn was addressing

[Garland Bayley]

Mr. Papazian,

Fortune is guiding my affairs better than I could have hoped.  I'll take it as a compliment that instead of addressing anything I have actually written you have focused your hodge podge of analogies and your scattered drivel on tilting at windmills and slaying the strawman.

I'll leave you now to carry on with your noble endeavors.

Take care, sir.

+1

[Garland Bayley]

Pat Craig,

Please find your own ink !

Freedom of ink! I think it is in the Bill of Rights.

[Melvyn Morrow]

Where is the Bill of Rights to free us from the ubiquitous Carts and the ever seeing Eye (Electronic Yardage Enhancers) 

What the Hell is a Bill of Rights anyway? 

Why need one when we have Mel Gibson’s film Braveheart – most of it was pure fiction and who is Gibson anyway!

Melvyn

[Gib_Papazian]

Pat Craig,

I think it comes down to this:

You find my writing unreadable.

I find your reading unwritable.

Let's just end this discussion with an Armenian koan and call it a draw.

Selah.

[Mike Benham]

Mr. Papazian,

Fortune is guiding my affairs better than I could have hoped.  I'll take it as a compliment that instead of addressing anything I have actually written you have focused your hodge podge of analogies and your scattered drivel on tilting at windmills and slaying the strawman.

I'll leave you now to carry on with your noble endeavors.

Take care, sir.

+1

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[TEPaul]

".....well, I'm not sure about that. Jack Palance could be a pretty intimidating fellow, and Shane himself was not looking forward to the encounter. BUT - yes, and as you know, Shane was from some other plane of existence, and no one can out-draw a metaphor."


But the question remains----what metaphor was Shane really?

[Peter Pallotta]

Good question, TE. I'm not sure, but according to Billie Holliday, whatever/whomever Shane was a metaphor of, it/he was never coming back. Do you know the story? Billy Crystal, whose uncle owned Commodore Records, tells of being 7 years old and sitting on Holliday's lap as they watched Shane together at the movie theatre. And at the end, when Shane is riding off into the sunset and the boy Joey is yelling out "Come back, Shane!", Crystal remembers Holliday whispering to herself "No, he ain't coming back. Uh huh, Joey, Shane ain't never coming back. He's not that kind - he's gotta keep roaming. Bye, bye, Shane".  

Peter

[TEPaul]

Peter:

I was nine when that movie came out. It was one of my favorites. I might've seen it ten times in the movie theaters. But if you'd like to know what metaphor I think Shane was of, I'd be glad to tell you.

But while hoping it won't ruin anyone's image of this thing, metaphorically or otherwise, I should tell you I just did a Google on Shane and the movie and the truth was Jack Palance couldn't ride a horse worth a damn (they actually used him dismounting in reverse as his mounting a horse scene) and Alan Ladd couldn't shoot worth a damn (they did 116 takes of his gunslinging scene).

But the real question is Joey-----what was HE really a metaphor of?? 

[JMEvensky]

But the real question is Joey-----what was HE really a metaphor of?? 

Joey represents Pat Mucci and Shane was a metaphor for benevolent club dictators.

[Patrick_Mucci]

But the real question is Joey-----what was HE really a metaphor of?? 

THE STYMIE ! 

[Dave McCollum]

Apart from all of Gib’s quips, my favorite line was Bogey’s:  “JC, run away, run away!”  I waste far too much time on this site, but count me in the camp favoring “camaraderie between like minded nutcakes.”   I’ll definitely waste more if Gib finds the time to come back more often.  Who woulda thunk the legend of HS Thompson lives on website full of golf nerds?  Hilarious.

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