Fellow Twainiacs,

Here is the bottom line on the "Discover" quote:

Mark Twain never used "Discover."   And like Costco he only takes American 
Express.

Your pal,
Horace J. Digby
Winner of the Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor.
Returning Judge in 2008 with Bob Newhart.
http://www.lexingtonfilm.com/rbscompetition.htm



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Crimmins" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Mark Twain quote?


>I hope Jocelyn Chadwick reconsiders and apologize if I in any way
> contributed to her departure.
>
> I think it unfair to place a further burden on this forum's
> benevolent administrator by asking him to serve as a bouncer.
>
> I cannot in good faith call for the ouster of Mr. Fears. I ask my
> friends to reconsider this request. I can and will sic my spam filter
> on Mr Fears if he doesn't stop posting instant and often boorish
> responses to almost every submission to this list. I wish he'd
> realize that this list is not his personal Rorshcach test. I know I
> have had a couple of thoughts of posting lately that I abandoned
> because I didn't want my remarks treated as if they were fodder for
> "Ask David Fears."
>
> No matter how you spin it, you are not a martyr or a victim, Mr
> Fears. What you are is one member of a forum full of people who are
> very knowledgeable about Mark Twain. It is a forum that is bleeding
> members ever since you have begun posting far more often than any
> other member. As any good teacher might say, "Let's give some of the
> others a chance."
>
> Barry Crimmins
>
>
>> Chadwick
>
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Larry Howe wrote:
>
>> Jocelyn--
>>
>> I'm sorry to read that you're leaving the forum.  Although I
>> understand and
>> have felt similarly at different points, I urge you to reconsider.
>> In the
>> spirit of an historic speech given just a couple of days ago, I ask
>> you to
>> maintain an association with a group that has merit despite the
>> wrongheaded
>> remarks of a vocal inividual. I appeal to you in part out of
>> selfishness: if
>> sensible people leave, there will be little reason for other
>> sensible ones
>> to stay and others to join.
>>
>> It is, of course, frustrating to have a particularly stubborn
>> member not
>> learn from repeated calls to show some sensitivity.  I take this
>> opportunity
>> to point out to David Fears that his activity on the forum is having a
>> deleterious effect.  I would encourage you, Fears, to grow up
>> (resist your
>> adolescent inclination to reply with lame wit), apologize for your
>> mistakes,
>> and be considerate in subsequent posts.  If you cannot do this,
>> then I would
>> call on the list administrator to do something about it.  If either
>> of these
>> conditions are not met, the list faces the likelihood of
>> abandonment from
>> other intelligent, mature voices like Jocelyn Chadwick's.
>>
>> --LH
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jocelyn
>> Chadwick
>> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:03 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Mark Twain quote?
>>
>> I have been a member of this forum for longer than I can really
>> remember and
>> have learned from, contributed to, and read with enthusiasm
>> comments from
>> this group. I am so sorry that today, I will ask to be removed. I
>> am making
>> this request publicly and with much sorrow in my heart and in my
>> soul. When
>> I read the quote yesterday, I actually wondered whether anyone
>> othen than
>> the usuals would respond.
>>
>>   I thank you all for the wonderful conversations, but I cannot,
>> will not
>> abide any sort of insensitivity on a forum from which I have always
>> expected
>> substantive conversation, scholarship, and yes, disputation, but
>> without
>> wreckless remarks for no apparent reason other than one can.
>>
>>   Mr Fears, you have caused me to do something that I never thought
>> I would
>> do--leave a forum I have so loved and admired for so long.
>>
>>   Jocelyn A. Chadwick
>>
>> David H Fears <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>   Isn't it interesting that those who lie here waiting in attack
>> mode for
>> terms they *perceive* as pejorative respond by using terms such as
>> "troll"
>> and
>> "fossil" in ways which are undeniably pejorative. Such abuse can
>> only limit
>> contributions to this forum.
>>
>> David H Fears
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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