Ed Dolan the Great and the Long Goodbye
Edward Dolan
newsgroups except for idiots, morons and imbeciles. That is as it should be
since these newsgroups are without moderators. Anyone with any brains has
long since left Usenet. It is for the mindless only.
I will only look in on these newsgroups occasionally to make sure that Tom
Sherman is not spouting any liberal nonsense. He was the most notorious
liberal ever to infest these newsgroups, but he was also intelligent which
made him a worthy adversary for me. The rest of you are all too god damn
dumb for words - which is why I will no longer waste any on you.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
Edward Dolan
"JimmyMac" <jimmy...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Oct 31, 11:09 pm, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
> It now appears to me that there are none left on these fucking cycling
> newsgroups except for idiots, morons and imbeciles. That is as it should
> be
> since these newsgroups are without moderators. Anyone with any brains has
> long since left Usenet. It is for the mindless only.
>
> I will only look in on these newsgroups occasionally to make sure that Tom
> Sherman is not spouting any liberal nonsense. He was the most notorious
> liberal ever to infest these newsgroups, but he was also intelligent which
> made him a worthy adversary for me. The rest of you are all too god damn
> dumb for words - which is why I will no longer waste any on you.
>> What we have here is a promise made before, broken before and destined
to be broken again. A response to this reply will confirm exactly
that. It has become painfully obvious that BULLSHIT is HEAD Dolan the
GRATE's native language!!!
Tom Sherman seemingly drops out of the newsgroups every now and then leading
to me to believe that he has left for good, but then he always returns. I
can never leave these groups for so long as Tom Sherman remains, no matter
how ghostly his appearances.
Stephen Bauman
> It now appears to me that there are none left on these fucking cycling
> newsgroups except for idiots, morons and imbeciles. That is as it should
> be since these newsgroups are without moderators. Anyone with any brains
> has long since left Usenet. It is for the mindless only.
>
> I will only look in on these newsgroups occasionally to make sure that
> Tom Sherman is not spouting any liberal nonsense. He was the most
> notorious liberal ever to infest these newsgroups, but he was also
> intelligent which made him a worthy adversary for me. The rest of you
> are all too god damn dumb for words - which is why I will no longer
> waste any on you.
>
As Oliver Cromwell said: "You have sat too long for any good you have
been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In
the name of God, go!"
Edward Dolan
"Stephen Bauman" <sba...@abt.net> wrote in message
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The only good I ever did on Usenet was to get rid of all the liberals who
were posting rubbish and nonsense on ARBR. It took me several years to
accomplish this rather mundane task. They all appear to be gone now. I think
what happened is everyone got sick and tired of politics, even Tom Sherman,
the most noxious liberal ever in the entire history of Usenet.
By the way, this is my 12th final farewell. I do this about twice every
year.
Edward Dolan
"!Jones" <sws...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:02:47 -0600, in rec.bicycles.tech "Edward Dolan"
> <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
>
>>You are the idiot...
>
> Well, I am never reduced to screaming and name-calling. I am quite
> able to have a perfectly civil discussion involving a person or
> persons with whom I disagree. The interesting point, here, is that I
> have never particularly disagreed with you!
No one knows what the hell you are ever talking about! Moreover, you do not
quote me properly, which tells me all I will ever have to know about you.
> But (and here's the disagreement,) Ed, I'm afraid that you've been
> misdiagnosed... you're not a genius. What you are is a "kook". Now,
> I'm not knocking kook-hood, mind you. Almost every active Usenet
> group has a resident kook. In my opinion, kooks go with the turf...
> they're alternately amusing and annoying; they're never taken very
> seriously.
I am doing exactly what I intended to do on Usenet, which is to take
pretentious bastards like you to the woodshed. If it requires that I be a
kook, then so much the better. Real kooks to do not know they are kooks. I
give you Comandante Banana as an example. But I know know what I am doing
here. What is it you think you are doing here besides pissing me off?
> Now, me...? I'm just passing through on my way to Australia. I'm
> afraid that I only have a limited amount of patients for kooks...
> particularly when they begin screaming at me and calling me names.
The land down under ought to suit you. Why not take up with the Aborigines
there. I think you will find them about on your level of idiocy.
The fact remains I am a greater genius than you. I am also more virtuous
since I do not fuck up your posts like you do mine.
Edward Dolan
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:32:29 +0100, in rec.bicycles.tech Simon Lewis
> <simonle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>!Jones <sws...@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:02:47 -0600, in rec.bicycles.tech "Edward Dolan"
>>> <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>You are the idiot...
>>>
>>> Well, I am never reduced to screaming and name-calling. I am quite
>>> able to have a perfectly civil discussion involving a person or
>>> persons with whom I disagree. The interesting point, here, is that I
>>> have never particularly disagreed with you!
>>
>>knees. Two more objectionable, nasty people it would be hard to find.
>
> Oh, Ed is really pretty mild by the standards of what I've seen
> elsewhere. I can cite quite a few more objectionable posters just off
> the top of my head if I'm allowed to span Usenet. Now, that said,
> based on my limited exposure, I don't think I'd go out of my way to
> read his nonsense; however, that applies to *lots* of people... and
> I'm sure it's reciprocal. OTOH, I have yet to meet the person who
> ever tried to force me to read anything when I had set my
> determination otherwise.
Jones is a smart ass and I doubt if we have heard the last of him. But do
not worry, I will be here for him. He has earned my animosity and I am a
world class expert at nursing grievances. What is the grievance? Jones said
he was a greater genius than me! Imagine that! I have never been so insulted
in all of my life!
Edward Dolan
"Andre Jute" <fiul...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 9, 1:56 am, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
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> It does if you can separate the seed from the chaff. Original writing is
> vastly overrated and so is original thought. It is quite enough to be able
> to intelligently select what is fine to make one a genius. It explains why
> some think Beethoven's last quartets are fine while others think
> Wellington's Victory is fine. It is also explains why my epitaph will be
> infinity superior to any that you can find. All that counts is the ability
> to make discriminations, and the finer the discrimination, the greater the
> genius.
>> Gee, Eddie, that's the finest (and the shortest) apologia for a failed
artist I've ever heard. Man. I've heard thousands, and you just capped
them all.
>> Reminds me of the designer of several significant Aston Martins, a
chum of one of my editors, exclaiming one night in a bar, "We are in
the presence of much genius!" He swept his arm across the bar and
explained, "There are at least five fellows over there who each by
himself designed the Austin-Healey 3000!"
Every society needs a few smart men from time to time to come up with new
inventions and discoveries, but still such men are vastly overrated. The
history of great men (leaders) bores me to tears because I do not think it
ever gets to the root cause of a civilization. For that, you need to read
Arnold Toynbee.
If Napoleon had never lived, would the history of France and Europe been any
different? I think not because a Napoleon like leader was bound to appear
when and how he did. It was French society and European civilization which
made Napoleon inevitable. Same goes for Hitler and Stalin too of course.
If Edison had never lived, would we be without electric light bulbs? If
Einstein had never lived, would we be without a theory of the universe? If
Mozart had never lived, would we be without classical era music?
Individuals come and go, but societies and civilizations last for very long
periods of time. It is what is worth studying. To spend much time on
individuals is a waste of time. It is why I have never liked biographies
unless they portray the times.
Genius resides in a people, not in individuals. Hells Bell, even the most
benighted people on earth, the Aborigine, has a genius to be able to figure
out how to survive in that god forsaken land known as Australia.