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George Plimpton

On 3/28/2012 4:14 AM, Derek wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:10:49 -0700, George >
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/25/2012 4:55 PM, Derek wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:28:00 -0700, George >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/25/2012 10:58 AM, Derek wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:36:44 +0100, > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25/03/2012 18:17, Derek wrote:
>>>>> []
>>>>>>> So who ARE you, Glen, and why did you copy and paste parts of my
>>>>>>> private email to you here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My sincere apologies Derek. I didn't mean any damage by it.
>>>>>
>>>>> No harm no foul, I usually say, but there was a measure of intent in
>>>>> there, I assume.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Guess we got off to a bad start, eh?
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe that "start" happened a few years ago, "Glen", so who are
>>>>> you?
>>>>
>>>> My best guess was that it was "Zakhar", better known as "greggeorge",
>>>> but not sure now. It's obviously a Brit. Whoever it is was here
>>>> earlier and is too gutless to say what he was using for a name back
>>>> then. Anyway, he's an asshole.
>>>
>>> I'm leaning more and more towards blackmailing Ray Slater. He
>>> threatened to print your address here a few times, and stalking people
>>> via facebook wouldn't surprise me in the least.
>>
>> Doesn't write enough like Slater. Slater got weepy almost immediately.
>>
>> I think it's this douche:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.a...8?dmode=source
>>
>> I worked with that ****wit at Apple Computer back in the 1980s. He was a
>> nice enough guy at the time, but he later came here and admitted he was
>> just trying to get to bang "vegan" chicks. He's a dishonorable ****,
>> too, because I "sold" him a nice futon with a hardwood frame, and he
>> never paid up. I thought he was good for it, but he stiffed me, the ****.
>
> Heh heh heh. He called you a "feeble excuse for a monkey's arse."
> I like him already.
>
> Anyway, I sussed it a while ago but didn't want to say until I'd got
> all my ducks in a row, so to speak. The veiled sarcasm in his use of
> the term St. Derek wasn't veiled enough: I saw straight through it.
>
> Anyway - those 11 ducks.
>
> 1) I sometimes used to use a nym on other Usenet groups with the email
> .
>
> 2) My middle name is Mark.
>
> 3) I had a friend called Glen who died mysteriously in his sleep aged
> about 13.
>
> 4) I use a period after St., omit the period after 'D' in Ph.D, and I
> spell honour with a 'u', just like Glen and Mark.
>
> 5) And there's this (below).
>
> [start]
> oh yes you did jonathan ball
>
> .................................................. ..............................
> .................................................. ...
>
> > What do you have?
>
> Ph.D. economics, UCLA. You?
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc....7726abf?dmode=...
>
>
> .................................................. ..............................
> .................................................. .....
>
> > So you're a drop-out
>
> Nope. Ph.D. in economics; UCLA.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...ab479c7d4f0?hl...
> ource
>
>
> .................................................. ..............................
> .................................................. ...
>
> > You lied, as usual.
>
> no. you lied.
> [end]
> a ghost of Usenet past Apr 6 2011 http://tinyurl.com/cb56ycr
>
> 6) This person, a ghost of Usenet past, used the email and
> quotes the same way Glen does with lines of dots or dashes under each
> quote.
>
> 7) He uses and abuses periods the same way I do, and he includes the
> 'u' in honour, being British.
>
> 8) Mark, a ghost of Usenet past and Glen are the same person and have
> writing characteristics similar to mine.
>
> 9) There's only one person similar to me with a motive to embarrass
> me, and probably you, but with only half the ability to pull it off,
> and that's my twin.

That was one of my guesses, but I don't have a strong enough background
in all his tics to spot him for certain.

> 10) I'm fairly certain he still 'monitors' this group and follows me
> around usenet, generally.
>
> [start - David]
> > >> >It sure is.... hehehhe
> [me- using a variation of the Reti opening to see if it was David]
> > >> P-QB3
> [David's common response to a variation of the Reti opening (a school
> of thought in chess that demands control of the center from a safe
> distance instead of occupying the very center squares) is]
> > >P-KB4 hahahahaha
> [me, satisfied that it is David (he never tries to control anything
> from a distance, opting instead always to occupy it from the very
> center squares). Reckless, but he usually succeeds with it anyway.]
> > Okay, what do you want?
> [David]
> **** all. Just monitoring.
> [end]
> Father Onearly (David, my twin)
> Dec 11 2008 http://tinyurl.com/ycscfcq
>
> 11) He knows the arguments raised here nearly as well as I do and
> could probably hold his own as a vegan if he wanted to. I know he's
> been tempted to try.
>
> 12) More, nothing would satisfy him better than wrong-footing me and
> beating me at my own game, especially on my own board: a.a.e.v. More
> still, he wouldn't be able to resist leaving me a few clues to show
> how clever he'd been after I'd lost the game.
>
> Note to David.
>
> A half-decent opening. A lively but reckless middle. Poor end-game.
> Checkmate!