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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: "Like Shit They Don't," by George Dance
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:51:11 +0000
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HarryLime wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:26:43 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MMP) aka
>>> HarryLime wrote:
>
>>> NancyGene hadn't posted here for over a year.
>>>
>>> Nor did you post on aapc, for almost a year, after Google shut down. You
>>> returned at the end of January, after you'd learned how to post at
>>> NovaBBS, and your NastyGoon followed you here about two weeks later.
>>>> She only returned because George Dance falsely accused her of
>>>> plagiarism.
>>>
>>> If you mean that NastyGoon returned after someone falsely told her that
>>> I'd accused them of plagiarism, that's correct. (Since you're the only
>>> one who was spreading that story here on aapc, presumably that someone
>>> is you.)
>>>
>>>> When someone libels you in a public forum, you have the right to
>>>> challenge them.
>>>
>>> Indeed; and after you've been told, by the person who's supposed to have
>>> libeled you, that they hadn't said that, you'd normally drop it rather
>>> than repeating the false allegation of libel; not help spread it.
>>>
>>>> George Dance also brought me back to AAPC after a year's absence, by
>>>> making libelous statements against me as well.
>>>
>>> Now this is new. Just what where the libelous stories that you claim I
>>> was making against you in February? I don't recall talking about you at
>>> all.
>>>
>>>> As previously noted: George Dance has been using Usenet groups to libel
>>>> those he's fought with in the past.
>>>
>>> I think you mean "previously" claimed that which is true for the
>> alleged
>>> "libel" of NastyGoon, which we've seen didn't happen. As for the
>> alleged
>>> "libel" or "libels" of you, those haven't been
>> investigated, since
>>> (despite what you just implied) you haven't mentioned those previously.
>>> Would you mind explaining what you're talking about?
>>>
>>>> We can't press charges, because Mr.
>>>> Dance lives in Canada (while we live in the U.S.)
>>>
>>> Actually, neither of you can press charges because you're both anonymous
>>> troll. First, you can't press charges without using your real names and
>>> blowing your cover;  and neither of you want to do that. Second, you'd
>>> have to try to convince a judge that what I've written about anonymous
>>> trolls on Usenet somehow impacts your personal life; that is, that
>>> people who read what I've written about two anonymous accounts would
>>> somehow connect it with the real people posting as them; which no one
>>> has or would do.
>>>
>>>> but we can ask that
>>>> he be stopped from using this forum as a platform for launching such
>>>> attacks.
>>>>
>>>> ATTN Retro Guy: Please ban George Dance from rec.arts.poems,
>>>> alt.arts.poetry.comments, and alt.arts.poetry as he is using these
>>>> platforms to falsely accuse others of plagiarism.
>>>
>>> So not only are you repeating your falsely allegation that I accused
>>> your NastyGoon colleague of plagiarism, but you're now also alleging
>>> that I've also accused you of plagiarism sometime before you resumed
>>> posting on aapc. That's news to me, so again I'll ask you: Would you
>>> care to explain what you're talking about?
>>
>>
>> If Harry Lime would read more carefully he'd see that you didn't accuse
>> anyone
>> of plagiarism but noted the similar lines of poetry and mentioned what
>> someone
>> else might call it.
>>
>> Either way, Harry sure is in a tizzy over it.
>
> I'm too greatly angered by George Dance

Like I said, in a tizzy.

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