On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT), "John M."
 wrote:

>On Aug 28, 12:01 pm, amacmil...@aol.com wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:48:09 -0700 (PDT), "John M."
>>
>>
>>
>>  wrote:
>> >On Aug 27, 9:23 pm, amacmil...@aol.com wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:52:34 -0700 (PDT), "John M."
>> >>  wrote:
>> >> >On Aug 27, 6:04 pm, amacmil...@aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:18:08 -0700 (PDT), "John M."
>> >> >>  wrote:
>> >> >> >On Aug 27, 3:02 pm, amacmil...@aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:21:10 -0700 (PDT), "John M."
>> >> >> >>  wrote:
>> >> >> >> >On Aug 27, 12:23 am, amacmil...@aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:10:46 -0700 (PDT), "John M."
>> >> >> >> >>  wrote:
>>
>> >> >>   On the other hand, I have
>> >> >> never done anything in my life I didn't want to do and enjoyed every
>> >> >> minute of it.
>>
>> >> >Obsessive compulsion gets people like that. Born-again christians are
>> >> >a good example, tramping door-to-door peddling their nonsense and as
>> >> >happy as the day is long doing it..
>>
>> >> Or more like trying to get on the local French council and not  making
>> >> it  and now say the council is undemocratic.  Probably because they
>> >> didn't want you.
>>
>> >Oh, they wanted me.
>>
>> Gosh, really.  Would the mayor confirm that?
>>
>> >And when did I say the council was undemocratic? I
>> >said the election was undemocratic, and that was my reason for turning
>> >down the mayor's offer of a place on his list.
>>
>> Well if the election is undemocratic and organised by the council, the
>> council is undemocratic.
>
>A non-sequitur from the master of same.
>
>The Zimbabwe parliament just elected its speaker by a democratic
>ballot organised by the Zimbabwe parliament - the process by which the
>Zimbabwe parliament was elected has been decried world-wide as non-
>democratic.
>

Which makes a mockery of democracy


>> >You really don't read
>> >other people's post do you. I guess that's part of your being an
>> >obsessive.
>>
>> I was recalling your past posts - not reading them at this time.
>
>So this is your excuse for all those porky-pies you've posted over the
>years - an ineffective memory.
>

Not at all.

>> >> <snip>
>>
>> >> >> >> >> >Well you were wrong about that too. I learned to get out of a
>> >> >> >> >> >synthetic chemistry laboratory as fast as possible if I wanted to live
>> >> >> >> >> >to a ripe old age.
>>
>> >> >> >> >> So how long did it take you to learn that?
>>
>> >> >> >> >3 years.
>>
>> >> >> >> You're obviously not a fast learner.
>>
>> >> >> >In the 60s nobody knew what we know today. Some of my colleagues from
>> >> >> >those days, who made research chemistry their career choice are dead
>> >> >> >now.
>>
>> >> >> So you were a research chemist?  How boring.  And here's me thinking
>> >> >> you were a leading edge scientist.  Were you a professor?
>>
>> >> >What makes you think I could achieve that after just 3 years post-
>> >> >grad. Professors spend more time than that in the lab before moving
>> >> >up.
>>
>> >> I didn't say after just three years.  So I take it you weren't a
>> >> professor?  Or a mere ten a penny doctor?
>>
>> >Neither did you read what I wrote, it seems.
>>
>> So I gather you were neither.
>>
>> You're always going on about being a scientist.
>>
>> Are you ashamed to disclose what you really did?
>
>You still haven't read what I wrote. Are you dyslexic, lack
>concentration, going blind, making things up, or what?

If you weren't a professor or a lowly doctor then you were probably a
scientist of minimal significance.  If I were you I wouldn't boast
about it:-))

Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident. 
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)