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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Hey, you could have just not participated in the discussion. I don't jump into every discussion I disagree with. I could've also just blown you off, which I didn't. So you don't have to get snide and sarcastic about it.

EDIT: Steve, I have just emailed you directly, off-forum. I hope this explains, if not justifies, what I feel and how I got there. The past itself might not be EDITable, but I'd like to think the posts are repairable. Détente, perhaps? Here, despite what is currently below, I say again...sorry.


But you did just blow me off, Steve. You effectively proceeded to elaborate on how my liking of the name was "okay" but in corporate terms wrong. It is disingenuous to suggest that I not participate, when my initial comment was topical and you did premise that "serious" was also permitted.

All I said was that I really and personally liked the name, with no expectation that B&N was right, wrong or otherwise to use it - you then elaborated dismissively.

Yes... since your contrary opinion effectively sucked the "fun" right outta the thread, I figured: What the hey. Address your points with my own. Then see if the thread can get back to some fun. Or not. Whatever, I can always just get back to my writing, and see you guys later...

Ugh. That is not reasonable nor fair reaction, Steve. To try assign and condemn me as "fun-sucking" when all I did initially was state why I liked the name, such that I wasn't part of the "we" you started with. It was a simple statement of taste. And now to try assign me as the cause of you skipping this thread, to continue the finger-pointing...

All I said was that I'm not part of your "we" - that I liked the name because of personal connotations. It was neutral. It was a simple statement of subjective opinion. It matched your initial post's permittal of the "serious" (as serious as a mild statement of subjective opinion can be anyway). "Fair enough" or similar was a possible simple response to that. Instead you elaborated on your dismissal - is it any wonder I should feel contempt from you with such a response and respond accordingly?

You do what you want, Steve, but all I wanted to say was that I liked the name and also felt enough interest in your thread to participate. Just because I might disagree with a small item of grammar and have an opinion different to prevailing conditions, it doesn't make me the Bad Guy.

Cheers,
Marc