[meteorite-list] OT: (AD) another trade offer ARTwhereartThou??

[Martin Altmann]

Aye Captain,

if you watch the same slapstick on an on and on and on, you'll come to a
point, where you won't deem it funny anymore.
Michael, I'm the last person to mock someone, because he has a limited
mental ability - but be assured, that this person I fully aware of what he's
doing, fully trutsting in his impudence, which is so stunning, that many ask
themselves, whether this person could be real.

Remember in the beginning, so many list members patiently answered to his
questions, gave him advice hundredfold....(here I have to state, that in
this respect this list really is exemplary) and now to my point:


I don't like, how Steve Arnold Chicago spits in the faces of those friendly
persons, who helped him.


Read the archives.
Also there you can do the stats by your own. The outraged responses appeared
only, when he was advertising his stuff every second day.
You remember his Springwater? I guess 8 Ads or so. Remember his Campo Sales
pieces - there he reported us, whether something was sold or not, whe he
came back from toilet admiring his tooth with hole.

I mean I often don't have much to contribute,
but if I wouldn't work together with Gren & Ralew, and we want to use this
list from time to time as a platform for advertising,
I simply would unsubscribe. Yeah free world, free Darwinism.
So I won't write anymore to this list else, than in form of a weekly AD
until this guy will have found another group to do the therapy for his ego.

He can spare his promises to behave better, simply copy one of his dozens he
gave during the last years.  

Buckleboo
Martin

(huh, I ask myself, who is still selling to that guy - non olet?)





-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Michael L Blood [mailto:mlblood at cox.net] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 22:54
An: MexicoDoug; Martin Altmann; Meteorite List
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: (AD) another trade offer ARTwhereartThou??

Hi Doug,
        I, too, ENJOY Steve's ads - er, posts.
        They are hysterical in their irony, duplicity and a myriad of
other elements I won't go into, as identifying said elements may
seem to be critical. HOWEVER, far funnier than his posts are the
reactions to his posts. 10 or 20 list members begin bouncing off the
walls, moaning and groaning as though in a medieval dungeon of
torture! 
        There are many other posts I skip, based on the topic in the
subject box -  or at least after having read the first one or two posts on
a given subject, but there is no way - and I mean NO WAY I would
miss a post from Chicago Steve, much less any of the avalanche of
detractors' commentaries following his utterances. (He seems
devilishly clever in inventing new and improved irony.... "Look
at THIS one I just got!" [one week before offering it for sale - at
25% of what he paid] or, "This is it! I am "going out of business -
my wife says it's her or the meteorites...."  etc, etc. Makes the local
used car dealer ads look like Walter Cronkite. How, I ask, can one
not LOVE such inanity? But, as I said - the reactions are even
MORE entertaining. 
        These never ending post represent some of the most entertaining
moments found on the list since the passing of Proud Tom! (BTW, that
fellow promised to reveal himself to me two Tucson Shows ago..... where
art though, Proud Tom? Howsabout a little off list revelation???)
        Anyway, here's to Steve - and here's an even bigger salute
to all the "Nay Sayers!" May they all, like the Nakhla Dog, live long
and prosper. 
        Happy Holidays to all, Michael
PS: Martin, please keep those statistics coming - I have often wondered,
myself, about such things (seriously). Perhaps you could do one on the #
of Chicago Steve posts vs number of outraged responses to said posts?
You could then provide the both the mean and median responses as well
as the modal # of responses. I think you have the raw data already gathered
on Steve's posts, now, all you need is to check out the responses....
wouldja, please, wouldja?



on 11/29/06 12:28 PM, MexicoDoug at MexicoDoug at aim.com wrote:

> Martin wrote:
> 
> "I checked the archive.  This year alone, Steve Arnold Chicago had on this
> list 76 ADs.  His worst month was January with only a single AD, his best
> November with 16 ADs."
> 
> "The rest of his posts consisted mainly of Wanted-Ads;  reports, which
> specimens he just bought (to resell them in most cases after
> a short while); chatting-ups to reputable sellers; garnished with
> announcements to quit collecting/selling forever, promises to obey to the
> list rules in future, questions, which he could have answered easily by
> himself, in reading a beginners book or using google
> and lachrymose complaints, that in his innocence, he couldn't understand,
> that he is attacked by list members."
> 
> "108 ADs he had last year, although he was banned for 3 months.  The shock
> from the ban lasted exactly 3 months, Nov 05 - Jan 06, one Ad per month -
> since last February the notorious mess again."
> 
> Martin,
> 
> If Art is OK with Steve's posts, so am I.
> 
> I am bedazzled how you spent your valuable time compiling THOSE
statistics!
> 
> Best wishes, Doug
> 
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