banker, tell me... why does it bother YOU so?
Or is it out of bounds to ask?
What does it say about YOU that you so consistently show up in these threads? And always without exception to play your cynic, "It'll never happen, give up and go home" role, though to be fair, sometimes actually engaging in discussion instead of this all-out exhibition of pretentiousness you've decided to wield on this occasion?
Dozens and probably hundreds of posters have read my posts, yet no one quite seems to be even barely as motivated as you are. Even barely.
One can only conclude that this is somehow personal with you.
Why? I don't stalk you. You stalk me. If I ran over your dog, I apologize, but I don't see why you can't just come clean and get out what's bothering you about me. I doubt we know each other. Everyone I know loves and adores me. (*grin*) Maybe that's it. Maybe you're one of those who was scavenging for attention in hs or college, and you've got this social vendetta thing going on. I dunno. You're just so strange in this way.
As to your post... yadayadayada... nothing new here... just another mountain of ad hominem which for the umpteenth time now demonstrates you've got nothing... but this time, supplemented with another dose of cynicism and a smattering of dismissiveness wrapped in incoherence.
Do I care about your opinion of my word count? Really?!?... hehe... you gotta be kidding.
Am I oblivious to the antagonistic nature of most message boards?... hehe... no, actually, that's sometimes even the point... one of the most helpful CSNBBS posters was also one of the most negative--that Bruce guy on the MAC board. He would hate knowing that he was helpful, but whatever... I appreciated his insight, and it pointed me to some things I hadn't considered.
Do I care about your charges of narcissism?... *chuckling*... well, my friend, given that I'm not the one of the two of us who writes prophecies like he's just come down from Sinai, I'm content that even those who cheer you on recognize the laughable hypocrisy... ie, "that'll never!... zero chance!... not possible!... and by the way, Boise was never that good, the WAC was just that bad!!!"
(Well, no. The numbers say what Oklahoma and a handful of PAC teams learned... Boise was that good, and the WAC was CUSA-like, nothing to write home about but nothing to sneeze at either.)
And no... you don't know me... I honestly don't say that defensively or with an edge in my voice, but rather quite relaxed and as a matter of fact... again, you're pissed off with me for some reason and it drives you, but the handful of people on this board who know me know what you call narcissism is more accurately passion--seeing a problem, defining it, and trying to facilitate people to work together toward resolving it... which, of course, sometimes demands stepping forward and attempting to get some ideas circulating.
Like many others, no doubt, I problem-solve for a living, and this problem we're dealing with is genuinely upsetting given how far we'd come from when we first began to take some renewed pride in ourselves when Little Stu... no relation, of course... ;)... made us recognize "we are Marshall" without actually uttering those words. I want to solve it or, at least, help solve it, if only by shining a light on it and calling spades spades.
On the other hand, maybe it's not personal. If not, there's only one other thing it could be. Brace yourself. Narcissism alert. Perhaps it's that the points I make are too reasonable, and while you dare not say so, it just greatly concerns/perturbs you that for every person who bothers to post their displeasure, there's probably ten other lurkers to a thread who see just how rational my points are, and don't bother to respond because it's quite apparent that I don't need much help... not so much because I'm so smart, but because what we get mostly is hyper-critical, head-in-the-sand tripe without substance like you just pumped out yet again.
I suppose it probably bugs you that I don't follow your lead and start going tit-for-tat, pretending the debate should automatically just end because I said so...
No. It is, in fact, worth discussing your model--the one that says we couldn't be in a better position than to be in this top-dog situation with a bunch of developing pups to fight for the food bowl.
Evidently unlike you, though, I feel no need to pull the conversation into personal attacks, and am quite content to stay on that topic, fleshing out why the model you embrace is wishful thinking on your part, often... again, unlike you... bringing some objective numbers into the conversation as support... you?... hehe... well, you know it's been your way to ask me to go look up numbers FOR you, and then to get criticized when the numbers weren't what you thought they ought to be.
There. Feel better? A whole post, largely if not almost exclusively about you.
That's enough of that. You should've had your fill. No more deflection. Back to the actual topic.