Brad, Having just responded to Dick's last email about crazies who try to communicate with you, please
let me communicate with you before I get off the list.

Your persistent demand for a definition in the face of several fine ones that have been offered characterizes
you as a petulant brat.  When I last responded and asked you to tell me what a past perfect verb is, you did
not answer.  You instead "graded" the examples I gave you.  I'd suggest that you offer the definitive and—no
doubt—divine definition so the group can spare time bleeping your bleeping emails.

tj


On Thursday 02/17/2011 at 5:15 pm, Brad Johnston wrote:
Tell us what it is, Dick, and you will hear no more "bait".
 
It's not bait. It's a simple question. What is it? Craig clearly doesn't know. Herb doesn't know. The young man's English teacher at the community college doesn't know and she had the good grace to admit it.
 
Do you know what it is? If you do, prove it. If you don't, it would be ever so nice if you would stop bad-mouthing me.
 
Go ahead. Prove it. Let's hear it.
 
.brad.thur.17feb11.

From: Dick Veit <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 4:33:25 PM
Subject: Re: insanity

Craig,

I agree completely, and I look forward to every one of Herb's posts. But people do continue to respond to Brad. If doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result is insanity, I wonder who is crazier, those who keep taking Brad's bait or those (like you and me) who keep trying to get others to stop taking his bait.

Dick


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Craig Hancock <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dick,
    The idea for this most recent conversation is to come up with a view of the past perfect that pleases the rest of us. Whether it pleases Brad is not important.  It is insanity to expect a conversation with Brad to accomplish anything new, so our goal should be to discuss it with each other. I am looking forward to reading what Herb comes up with. I expect Brad to react angrily to that, but his response is irrelevant.
   I may be wrong, but I think reacting to Brad has kept us from a productive discussion.

Craig


On 2/16/2011 3:51 PM, Dick Veit wrote:
If we would all try just a little harder, explain the past perfect just a little more clearly, try just one or two or fifty more times to get you-know-who to engage in productive dialogue, surely then he will see reason and all will be well and we can turn to other topics. We won't know if we don't try many, many, many more times, will we?

Cheers,
Dick

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Geoffrey Layton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
:)

Geoff Layton


 
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:45:46 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: insanity
To: [log in to unmask]


Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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