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Originally posted by jaguar
Talking of never getting answers maggieL. Or tw.
Anyone care to inform who's oversized shoes i'm aparantly filling?
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Barak clearly let it be known he was black. He loved to bait the "suburban white boys" with a mixture of patronizing and condescending posts expressed in a "doctorial" or "Ivy League" manner. His purpose: I was never really sure. But he quickly tantalized and aggrevated some. It was rather amusing to watch some get so upset over such trivial concepts. There were times when I actually had to agree with Barak - albeit part of a post from time to time.
Recently Undertoad expressed a negative attitude towards the 'Barak experience'. That surprised me since during that time, Undertoad remained quite neutral and detached from the procedings - and they did procede.
However Barak did finally do the unforgiveable. He quoted some numeric conclusions from his book. He was held to define how he obtained those conclusions. The units of measure and the arithmetic, two separate errors as I recall, did not make sense. My "Hey Professor" post was a repeated attempt to have him explain those descrepancies. He never responded to multiple posts and eventually disappearred.
BTW, I don't consider you as a replacement for Barak. That is neither a complement nor an insult. Its just a plain fact that Barak was such an interesting character in that he could so 'bait and switch' others into frustration. Yes, I was amused. Others were not as entertained, as you may have noticed. To this day I don't know what his motives were. Maybe just to have fun? That is one possibility. You would have had to read those posts to appreciate what I mean.