Tony Cooper
On Sun, 04 May 2014 13:17:42 +1200, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Eric Stevens
On Sat, 3 May 2014 16:51:54 -0700, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
On 2014-05-03 23:25:39 +0000, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>said:

Eric Stevens
On Sat, 03 May 2014 18:09:14 -0400, PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net>wrote:

PeterN
On 5/3/2014 5:42 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:

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Eric Stevens
You are flanneling, as usual. Anyone who has read Usenet for more than a few days will know that "the use of single emphatic quotation marks is standard, as are *asterisks* and _underlining_," although they may not immediately realise that "underlining is less common in recent years."

PeterN
I thought you were going to stop feeding the troll. WTF is the importance of who "wins."

Eric Stevens
I'm not interested in winning. I'm interested in the truth of the matter.

Savageduck
Actually all three of you are interested in "winning" regardless of this so called search for truth.

Tony Cooper
There's ample evidence that no one with any smarts would think they could ever "win" with Popinjay if winning is when the loser admits defeat. His ego won't allow him to admit being wrong or uninformed.

He struts and postures and concocts arguments that make the Little Piggy's straw house look like a fortress in comparison.

He was good for some laughs, though. It was amusing to see him try so hard, and so unsuccessfully, to defend his gaffes.

There's an old Victorian term that describes a person who acts in the way he does: Podsnappery, a term meaning a person with a “wilful determination to ignore the objectionable or inconvenient, at the same time assuming airs of superior virtue and noble resignation.” Dickens frequently used this now almost forgotten term.