Blankets
Matthew P Wiener
weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu
Fri Jun 6 14:55:38 CDT 1997
David Casseres wrote:
>Matthew Weiner sez
>>And I am not doing that whatsoever. Sheesh. Meanwhile, the song remains
>>baldly inaccurate, historywise. Deal with it, eh? Scrambling to find
>>*somewhere* a positive spin *somehow* on its historical contents is not
>>going to work.
>[...] the song is neither corroborated nor contradicted by history,
>so how the hell can it be "baldly inaccurate, historywise"? History
>does not say anything at all about the song.
I listed numerous features of the song that were grossly inaccurate so
far as history goes. You keep pretending I did not.
>> on the money. The guts of the song are indeed baldly inaccurate, as I
>>showed with point by point enumeration of its disconnection from reality.
>You showed nothing but a lack of written documentation,
Liar.
>>You may bother to note that most of the historical errors had nothing to
>>do with the blankets before lying your head off about what I did or did
>>not "try to pass off".
>There are no "historical errors" to note.
I noted many. The only attempts to refute me were pretty ridiculous, like
claiming "the West" did not mean "the West", and so on.
> Do not call me a liar;
Then stop lying. Duh.
> you did
>indeed try to pass off a lack of evidence as contradictory evidence, and
>you are still doing so.
You're lying again. I did not try to pass anything off, for one thing.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu) If Apple owned
NBC, they would sue Nike for comedy-interface copyright violation.
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