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Subject: Re: The Fire Burns On - Relevantly to CCC

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:14:47 07/22/02

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On July 22, 2002 at 19:20:56, David Dory wrote:

>This Skinner-Strickland mess needs to be cleared up (if indeed that is still
>possible), to ascertain whether Skinner and or Strickland (forget Wilke, he's
>irrelevant at this time IMO) are just spoofing us with unwarranted lies, or not.
>
>I never doubted that Peter Skinner was real - he's in the phone book, address
>and all.
>
>I have a real doubt about Strickland being an alias Skinner used, however. The
>language, the depth of knowledge, overall point of view of Mr. Strickland was
>just too uncanny for me. And Mr. Strickland is NOT in the phone book - surprise,
>surprise!
>
>I would be surprised if somebody from UA Games Dept., contacts CCC, and states
>that THEY KNOW STRICKLAND PERSONALLY - and that he is not our Mr. Skinner, and
>his language and point of view do indeed match those of the Mr. Strickland who
>posted up here to CCC.
>
>Mr. Skinner's heroic actions are great - but don't grant him a license to spoof
>us all here with pseudonym's and pretentious lies.
>
>And that's exactly what happened here, in my opinion. I didn't even suspect it
>at first - but every single post by Strickland drew that conclusion closer and
>closer.
>
>Barring some evidence that can't be manufactured, I see it as the only one -
>Mr. Skinner is using Kevin Strickland's name to post here.
>
>Why? Because his own validity got wiped out in the $300 computer sale incident.
>
>Which indicates to me, he lied about that also.
>
>I'll bet a dollar you can get a copy of a Fedex shipping receipt, for that
>computer.
>
>No "receipt got lost", bullshit, Mr. Skinner.
>
>I try to have a lot of compassion for folk who make mistakes, but I don't like
>being played for a fool.
>
>In my book, you're a cheat to Mr. Galati, and a liar HERE, and you must know
>you've done NOTHING to prove otherwise, despite all your irrelevant statements
>regarding your personal life, etc.
>
>All of that (your marriage problems, fire, etc.), have NOTHING to do with the
>veracity of your statements here on CCC.
>
>That's my opinion.
>
>David

As long as you are mentioning the infamous FedEx receipt, isn't it possible for
the recipient to contact FedEx and ask them if anything was shipped to them?

bruce



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