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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: The Return of Michael Monkey
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:55:36 +0000
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:01:55 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:07:49 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:48:09 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 7:30:46 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:30:33 +0000, Michael Monkey Peakbrain akd
>>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 1:56:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:58:18 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MMP) aka
>>>>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 2:20:10 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:29:37 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MMP) aka
>>>>>>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:07:47 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:47:06 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MMP) aka
>>>>>>>>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not only are Team Donkey's members not my enemies, but I see no reason
>>>>>>> why anyone should need allies to engage with them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LOL! Remember what happened the last time you your act solo
>>>>>> rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s. You tried there to pose as the genius
>>>>>> with the encyplopedic knowledge of 1950s music, but (even though your
>>>>>> knowledge of 1950s music is more extensive than your knowledge of
>>>>>> poetry)
>>>>>> you failed miserably, got your ass kicked and had to come here to start
>>>>>> over.
>>>>>> Even if you had the brains of a chimp, you'd be smart enough to realize
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> needed a team this time.
>>>>>
>>>>> I left the 50s group for numerous reasons, the most significant being
>>>>> that it had become a thoroughly unproductive time sap.  I had learned
>>>>> all that I could from it, and the arguments were becoming repetitive
>>>>> rehashes that served no valuable purpose for me to pursue.  Since
>>>>> leaving, I have completed and published numerous books (including a 50s
>>>>> music book), and a monthly poetry magazine.
>>>>
>>>> You made the right decision; it is better to put your efforts into
>>>> something more permanent. Please do the same for aapc.
>>>>
>>>>> And, if I felt that I needed a team to participate in this group, I
>>>>> would have sided with PJR, Horatio, and Gwyneth, who were infinitely
>>>>> more knowledgeable,  and better educated than those of "Team Dunce"
>>>>> (which at the time consisted of you and your Donkey).
>>>>
>>>> Like Corey, you did; but PJR, the elitist snob that he was, wanted
>>>> nothing to do with either of you; so it was either leave or join the
>>>> opposition. So you joined the opposition, and helped get rid of him,
>>>> then tried to replace him.
>>>> Unfortunately, you misunderstood and thought the opposition wanted to
>>>> run aapc themselves. I can't speak for the other two, but I don't want
>>>> anyone to run it.
>>>>
>>> You nailed it again, George.
>>
>> Thanks. PJR's team was quite happy to take in both Corey and Michael as
>> allies, but PJR wanted nothing to do with them. So he decided to play
>> elitist snob. Of course, he didn't reject them because they weren't
>> "good" or "amsart" enough to be on his team - if he only wanted good
>> writers and smart thinkers, he wouldn't have had nonentities like Cujo
>> de Sockpuppet on it. He wanted meat puppets, yes men who'd be willing to
>> stay in subordinate role, not independent thinkers. Independent thinker
>> wouls sooner or later disagree with him and challenge his opinions, with
>> the result that the fighting would move into his team, and it would
>> cease to act as a team.
>>
>> It's the same reason that, for all his trying, Corey never made it onto
>> Team Mokey, either.
>
> An update, Corry is alive and apparently well and posting on Facebook
> again.
>
> I'm not sure if he understands how to get here and post from here,
> though.

Corey's ten times as intelligent as you, Donkey.  I'm sure that if he
wanted to post here, he'd already be doing so.

Corey, like everyone else you've driven away, now posts in the Official
AAPC FB Group.

That's something you really need to understand. AAPC has officially
moved to FB.

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