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Sniping at each other is an art form -- learn it.
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Michael Ernest
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Joined: Oct 25, 2000
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For a classic example, read this.
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
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HS Thomas
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Joined: May 15, 2002
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I guess sniping is an art form when it stops just short of trading insults. 
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Mark Fletcher
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Whats more neither chess player accused the other of being a loony liberal Anti American traitor.
Which was nice. 
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Mark Fletcher - http://www.markfletcher.org/blog
I had some Java certs, but they're too old now...
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Michael Ernest
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Originally posted by HS Thomas: I guess sniping is an art form when it stops just short of trading insults.
Two roughly equal combatants with a capacity to entertain; that's about it. It also helps if they are equally bright, petty and thick-skinned. They you got something lots of people would have a good time reading.
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Al Newman
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Originally posted by Mark Fletcher: Whats more neither chess player accused the other of being a loony liberal Anti American traitor. Which was nice.
Nor naming the other a monkey tricked-out in a suit. Exclaiming over how well the speech-training had gone.
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SCJP1.4, SCWCD
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Richard Hawkes
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My fav phrase, "...just shy of coherence..." 
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