O! M! G! Something's wrong with CSPAN... alert the media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdbwKeKPUdo

How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

RealLindaL wrote:How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

Did you bother to read the title of the post? DUH!

Is it your contention that the readers of this forum are so witless that they're incapable of deciding whether or not they want to click on a video without a summary? How insulting.

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

Did you bother to read the title of the post? DUH!

Is it your contention that the readers of this forum are so witless that they're incapable of deciding whether or not they want to click on a video without a summary? How insulting.

How presumptuous to compare yourself to a literary icon. Not even close.

I have never seen spicer give a press conference, this was hilarious and what I imagined the WH to be.

Floridatexan wrote:
How presumptuous to compare yourself to a literary icon.  Not even close.

Compare myself to a literary icon? What the hell are you talking about? You been hitting the sacramental wine a bit too hard? Sure you posted in the right thread?

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

Did you bother to read the title of the post? DUH!

Is it your contention that the readers of this forum are so witless that they're incapable of deciding whether or not they want to click on a video without a summary? How insulting.

Is this the way all communications with you are going to go?

Floridatexan wrote:

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

Did you bother to read the title of the post? DUH!

Is it your contention that the readers of this forum are so witless that they're incapable of deciding whether or not they want to click on a video without a summary? How insulting.

How presumptuous to compare yourself to a literary icon.  Not even close.

What did you mean by this, comparing myself to a literary icon? When did I do that?

btraven wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

Did you bother to read the title of the post? DUH!

Is it your contention that the readers of this forum are so witless that they're incapable of deciding whether or not they want to click on a video without a summary? How insulting.

How presumptuous to compare yourself to a literary icon.  Not even close.

What did you mean by this, comparing myself to a literary icon? When did I do that?

Who is B Traven?  No one knows for sure.

Floridatexan wrote:

btraven wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:How about at least a brief description to allow people to decide whether or not they wish to click on the youtube link?

Did you bother to read the title of the post? DUH!

Is it your contention that the readers of this forum are so witless that they're incapable of deciding whether or not they want to click on a video without a summary? How insulting.

How presumptuous to compare yourself to a literary icon.  Not even close.

What did you mean by this, comparing myself to a literary icon? When did I do that?

Who is B Traven?  No one knows for sure.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works

Floridatexan wrote:

Nice catch.

"From the moment his first works were published in Germany in the 1920's Traven evaded all efforts to identify him and encouraged contradictory and often fantastic accounts of his life. When he died here on March 26, 1969, he left all the important questions unanswered. "

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/25/books/his-widow-reveals-much-of-who-b-traven-really-was.html?pagewanted=all

RealLindaL wrote:"From the moment his first works were published in Germany in the 1920's Traven evaded all efforts to identify him and encouraged contradictory and often fantastic accounts of his life. When he died here on March 26, 1969, he left all the important questions unanswered. "

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/25/books/his-widow-reveals-much-of-who-b-traven-really-was.html?pagewanted=all

In the absence of any reliable information on Traven's origins, a variety of bizarre theories have evolved.

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:"From the moment his first works were published in Germany in the 1920's Traven evaded all efforts to identify him and encouraged contradictory and often fantastic accounts of his life. When he died here on March 26, 1969, he left all the important questions unanswered. "

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/25/books/his-widow-reveals-much-of-who-b-traven-really-was.html?pagewanted=all

In the absence of any reliable information on Traven's origins, a variety of bizarre theories have evolved.

Yes, many of them outlined in the above NYT piece.

"The irrelevance of anyone's formal identity, in the form of documents like birth certificates and passports, is a major theme of 'The Death Ship,' which many critics regard as the finest of Traven's novels."

RealLindaL wrote:

btraven wrote:

RealLindaL wrote:"From the moment his first works were published in Germany in the 1920's Traven evaded all efforts to identify him and encouraged contradictory and often fantastic accounts of his life. When he died here on March 26, 1969, he left all the important questions unanswered. "

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/25/books/his-widow-reveals-much-of-who-b-traven-really-was.html?pagewanted=all

In the absence of any reliable information on Traven's origins, a variety of bizarre theories have evolved.

Yes, many of them outlined in the above NYT piece.  

Linda that is why I mentioned on your "A Brief Time Out" topic that I appreciate his taste in movies,music and authors.

Telstar wrote:Linda that is why I mentioned on your "A Brief Time Out" topic that I appreciate his taste in movies,music and authors.

Got it, Tel, and understood.