which means i go to wal-mart

One Winter, when we had a DPW Ranch (2002), I lived for Jackie's chili at the Empire store.
Once a week.
Yep.
That place was special to me in a time and place in life.
KK

> Hey Josey,

> Do YOU remember the first time you found out that Green
> Tortoise wasn't about kissing your enchanted little ass just
> because you paid the same fare as everyone else for a
> ride to the playa.

Back for another round, Badger? Got tired of trolling the PETA tribe?

As usual, your grasp on the facts is weak, probably deliberately so. For those who are wondering what on earth our friend Ray Russ is babbling about, here is a full account of the trip he is speaking of ... either url will do ...

www.freewebs.com/josephdun...toise.html
web.newsguy.com/commonsens...rtoise.html

and here's a rebuttal to some of the rationalizations offered by somebody who would probably like to be Badger's friend

www.geocities.com/commonsen...toise.html

Short form: I have a condition, which seems to be relatively common among Jewish populations, called "Celiac Disease" aka Gluten Intolerance. In advance, I contacted the Green Tortoise, explained my circumstances, and asked them if they could accommodate this condition and provide me with meals that would not make me violently ill. They said they could and made a commitment to do so.

They got my money, and then, once I got there, I found out that they had lied. They did not live up to their commitments; practically everything served was breaded or floured in some way. I got to do a lot of fasting, for about a week. In principle, since this was breach of contract, I could have sued them and probably would have succeeded in collecting, but instead I opted to simply publish my side of the story and warn others with Celiac to not do business with the Green Tortoise. This is known as "writing a consumer report"; simply tell what happened and let others make an informed decision as to whether or not they wish to do business with the firm in question.

If Badger really seriously believes that expecting people to live up to their commitments constitutes a demand that they "kiss one's enchanted little ass", then at best the boy has some serious growing up to do, if not a crying need for psychoactive medication. Which, considering the context in which this exchange is occuring, would have to be viewed as being a real possibility. How on earth does one look at a thread about the grocery store in Empire, and see justification for dredging up a meritless complaint about a truthfully written consumer report and travelogue written ... is it seven years ago, yet?

How does one seriously argue that this is anything other than harassment for its own sake? Aside from noting that it is also libel and defamation of character, etc. etc. ...yawn ... and that this isn't the first time he's tried this with me on Tribe, or that I'm certainly not the only person with whom he's played games of this nature, game which he never plays with any particular subtlety. Since it is now 11:55 in the morning my time, and I really have better things to do with my time than knock heads with this idiot, I'll simply cut and paste part of my response from the last time Badger decided to do a little cyberstalking.





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Badger writes:

> Anyone here not familiar with the OP need only Google
> this guy to see how obsessive someone can get
> about any/everything.

Really? Let's take a look at obsession, shall we? Like the time you harassed a total stranger on a forum which I had avoided for four years at that point (more like six, now), because you couldn't accept the fact that I hadn't returned

eplaya.burningman.com/viewtopic.php

continuing a fight over causes that you and your little friends had latched onto that were stupid beyond belief. Somebody who was truly obsessive would probably have bothered to flesh some of this out at some point since 2002, and if need be, I have the downloaded material to do so, but here's a little taste:

commonsense.artshost.com/Burni...g.html

Lurking out of what can only be termed "perverse curiosity" over the years, I listened in as some of your friends started complaining about how they were being driven off by the "trolls" now inhabiting the current ePlaya, ending the grand old days of that forum, but the simple sad reality is that under any sane definition, you and your friends were trolls, and the grand old days have seriously benefitted in popular memory from being as well obscured as they have been. Seriously, how do you justify behavior like this

www.geocities.com/antistoic...h-joy.html

in which somebody ended up being rewarded for his would be efforts to raise consciousness about Burning Man in Chicago with death threats because he didn't fall for a prank? Or here, where, having found that you had run low on nontrolls to bother, you turned on one of your old friends (Kinetic) and decided to fill your empty hours by terrorising him with a shot of his home from orbit? Unsuccessfully, by the way.

eplaya.burningman.com/viewtopic.php

And now that you find me in a place where I like those I've met and the feeling seems to be mutual, you feel you have to put a halt to that. Not even because I disagreed with you six years ago, but because six years ago, as some of your fellow trolls were playing the ever popular sock puppet accusation game, I was suspected of being somebody who had disagreed with you. Typical nonissue: I was accused of being somebody who dared to suggest that "just ask them to turn it down" would not be an adequate solution to the problem of loud sound camps. How's that been working out for you?

I'm guessing that your would-be hate campaign will prove to be about as successful as was your attempt to bully a cancer patient on ePlaya, but if not, so be it. You're not just a creep, you're one of the most blatantly obvious creeps I've ever encountered online or off, the sort of person who once made the Net a place where people felt the need to adopt fake identities for the purposes of safety and who, if the Net hadn't been invented, would probably while away his time through the placing of obscene phone calls. If somebody wants to join in on the harassment in order to make nice with somebody who acts as you have been acting for years, you're welcome to him, or her.

Thanks for dropping by.


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Oh, and while we're at it, Badger writes

> Google 'Joseph Dunphy' and understand the meaning
> behind the line "It must suck being you."

Why not? Let's do that

www.google.com/search

and see what comes up.

1. Monday Never Comes - a personal blog, as much about Centrist politics as anything

joseph-dunphy.blogspot.com/

2. Joseph Dunphy's Cowboy Wannabee Site - mainly Southwestern photography

www.freewebs.com/josephdunphy/

3. A flickr photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/joseph_dunphy/

4. A flickr profile

www.flickr.com/people/joseph_dunphy/

5. A personal homepage ring

r.webring.com/hub

6. Another personal homepage, mostly slightly off-color fiction

users.ntsource.com/~tractatus/

7. My homepage update list

tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/J..._Dunphy/

8. My profile on MyBlogLog

www.mybloglog.com/buzz/memb...ph_Dunphy/

9. My Blogger Profile

www.blogger.com/profile/12...98718044156

10. A professional information page about yet another person named Joseph Dunphy. I think he's a financial analyst of some sort.

ideas.repec.org/e/pdu84.html


What we find is that I like to blog, cook and snap g-rated photographs, and that there are a bunch of different people named "Joseph Dunphy". My, how shocking. If you dig deeper, you'll eventually come across a page written by one of Badger's friends in which the guy takes a few paragraphs to say "I don't like him", while conveniently leaving out any specifics that he could be pinned down on, and somebody else who wishes to keep the word alive that back in the 1990s, I dared to question some of the philosophical assumptions of popular Christianity. Me and a few hundred million of my closest friends at this point, but why obsess on reality?

Badger certainly never will. So, that is what that is about. Somebody tosses out the line "google this guy's name", and counts on knee jerk reactions to that line from people who won't actually do the search. It's an insane line in general, because any idiot can write a page saying anything, and usually will - so what would unfavorable listings prove, other than the fact that somebody was being attacked - but in my case, you barely even get that. One gets photomanipulation, site reviews, the occasional recipe, semi-snarky blog responses like this one

www.longtail.com/the_long_...t-80014181

and remarkably little drama, for the excellent reason that when I see people start to act like idiots, I've learned to shrug and walk off. But our good friend Badger wants to bluff and see who's going to fall for it. It'll be interesting to see if anybody does.

...even the empire store...all I got there was a stolen gas cap!
;-)

> Got a few cans of chili beans

Have any left? Bob could use a snack.

bm.tribe.net/thread/9474...0f6dfd3a19b5