Iitoi wrote:
Wrote:
I'm getting that way with these mighty morsemen motivated fighters.
Jimmie be happy as proverbial clam if he can word-fight...and now
"iitoi" (whoever it be) wants to do same.
Wow, did I call this one or what!!!!
Yes, you did.
This is classic
Len-hoist-by-his-own-peyote! ("Peyote" is a John Wayne-style
euro-descent mis-name - here the People call it mezcal.)
Follow along, boys and girls, and take a lesson in the Anderson
technique of mistake-correction-squirm/misdirection.
Which is part of the larger cycle.
(Opening) N2EY (correctly) referenced an out-of-publication by the name
"ham radio" (uncapitalized).
A. (Mistake) Len surmises that somehow that's a "slight" of his
association with the magazine. So, in order to gain some messaging
points he picks a fight with N2EY about "refused to capitalize the Ham
Radio magazine name".
(NB: Len wrote many damned good technical articles for "ham radio" ---
"well done" to him on that score.)
B. (Correction) The magazine in question never called itself
capitalized "Ham Radio" --- It's cover name and all internal
references, masthead, copyright declarations, and other "branding"
folderol used the un-capitalized "ham radio" and the the corporate name
"hr publishing" adopted the same lower-case convention. I and N2EY both
pointed this out to Len, along with web images of the actual magazine
cover.
C. (Squirming and Misdirection) Presented with the facts, Len launches
a long irrelevant monologue about Jim Fisk, obsolete typewriters, and
paychecks, et. al., blows off the capitalization issue as not important
(if it wasn't important, why did HE start the fight about it?), and
exits declaring himself bored.
In the past month or so since I joined rrap I've been impressed several
times with how smoothly Len follows this simple A-B-C script. Watch for
it.
Yep, that's part of the classic profile. Here's some more bits:
1) Reference to others by made-up nicknames such as "Jimmie" and
"iitoi",
(lack of capitalization intentional), etc.
2) Bad catchphrases such as "mighty morsemen motivated fighters"
3) incorrect grammar such as "be happy as proverbial clam"
4) Long irrelevant detailed retaling of something Len did decades ago.
And the key point was not the capitalization at all, but that ARRL does
not, and has not, had a virtual monopoly on amateur radio publications.
Very predictable. In fact, there's a simple profile that pretty much
predicts Len's behavior in any newsgroup situation. It's appeared
here in rrap a few times.....
73 de Jim, N2EY