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post Fri 26th February 2010, 4:06am
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I'm told that all the recent tinkering with the article autobiography on Gary Weiss has put Weiss himself in a strange place, psychologically. He -- as Mantanmoreland -- has been begging many former allies for intervention and even asked ArbCom -- as Stetsonharry -- to be unbanned.

Of course, Stetsonharry was shown the door, but not before expressing his deep, DEEP, red-faced, vein-bulging, scowling disappointment.

Apparently it was Huldra's inspired addition of the Wikipuffery category that really set him off.

If had a devious side, it might suggest that just a little more improvement of the article (and it could certainly use more than a little improving) would yield some really interesting Weissian fireworks.
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post Sun 4th April 2010, 2:30am
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If institutions have learning curves, then they necessarily have emotions.
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WordBomb   Gary Weiss on the verge of a nervous breakdown   Fri 26th February 2010, 4:06am
Alison   I'm told that all the recent tinkering with t...   Fri 26th February 2010, 4:13am
WordBomb   [quote name='WordBomb' post='223546' date='Thu 25...   Fri 26th February 2010, 4:31am
One   Crap. That would be worse than asking the ex-girl...   Fri 26th February 2010, 4:35am
Herschelkrustofsky   :popcorn: The downside of being really successful...   Fri 26th February 2010, 4:31am
Mr. Mystery   I've never understood MONGO's relationship...   Fri 26th February 2010, 4:48am
RDH(Ghost In The Machine)   I've never understood MONGO's relationshi...   Fri 26th February 2010, 10:30pm
Piperdown   Gawy's prolly peeved that Word-B is now being ...   Fri 26th February 2010, 10:11pm
Cla68   It might be dawning on Weiss that he has lost cont...   Fri 26th February 2010, 10:33pm
taiwopanfob   It might be dawning on Weiss that he has lost cont...   Sat 27th February 2010, 1:53pm
Piperdown   Only Gary Weiss would hop back on the "Smear ...   Fri 26th February 2010, 10:33pm
Heat   Put him out of his misery and start an AFD on his ...   Sat 27th February 2010, 9:07pm
Mr. Mystery   Put him out of his misery and start an AFD on his...   Sun 28th February 2010, 9:40am
CharlotteWebb   Pfft. That helped Cla's adminship get deraile...   Sun 28th February 2010, 10:02am
The Adversary   I'm told that all the recent tinkering with t...   Sun 28th February 2010, 8:38pm
Abd   It's still happening. I was presented by email...   Sat 3rd April 2010, 5:29pm
Milton Roe   Looks to me like Gary Weiss just edited, five day...   Sat 3rd April 2010, 5:41pm
WordBomb   [quote name='Abd' post='229983' date='Sat 3rd Apr...   Mon 5th April 2010, 7:01pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='Abd' post='229983' date='Sat 3rd Ap...   Mon 5th April 2010, 7:04pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='Abd' post='229983' date='Sat 3rd Ap...   Fri 9th April 2010, 10:15pm
EricBarbour   [i]Whose sock is this, Whose ban indef, On ArbCom...   Sat 10th April 2010, 8:57am
Somey   Added text by Weiss in bold. The added text is d...   Mon 5th April 2010, 6:05pm
Abd   [quote name='Abd' post='229983' date='Sat 3rd Apri...   Mon 5th April 2010, 11:53pm
WordBomb   WordBomb, you are an expert on this topic, by reas...   Tue 6th April 2010, 1:41am
CharlotteWebb   Thanks, but I cheated, slightly. Looking at it, I...   Tue 6th April 2010, 2:55am
Abd   I was asked to provide the URL of the blog post th...   Sat 3rd April 2010, 9:31pm
Jon Awbrey   The Education — Or Not — of Wiki-Pollyanna Yo...   Sat 3rd April 2010, 9:36pm
Abd   The Education — Or Not — of Wiki-PollyannaYou ...   Sat 3rd April 2010, 10:03pm
Jon Awbrey   [quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='229996' date='Sat ...   Sun 4th April 2010, 12:28am
Milton Roe   [quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='229996' date='Sat...   Sun 4th April 2010, 12:36am
Abd   It's actually not that easy to figure out. Jim...   Sun 4th April 2010, 2:29am
Jon Awbrey   Sure, there's always a next question — Li...   Sun 4th April 2010, 2:42am
Abd   Next Question — [b]Who wants it that way? You...   Sun 4th April 2010, 2:09am
Jon Awbrey   Next Question — [b]Who wants it that way? Yo...   Sun 4th April 2010, 2:22am
Abd   There has been no clean-up. I noticed JzG's in...   Sun 4th April 2010, 12:18am
WordBomb   Wow. There's been a lot of action on this thre...   Mon 5th April 2010, 7:23pm
Milton Roe   Neither the account nor the IPs mentioned in that...   Mon 5th April 2010, 7:55pm
CharlotteWebb   Neither the account nor the IPs mentioned in tha...   Mon 5th April 2010, 10:35pm
WordBomb   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='230217' date='Mon ...   Mon 5th April 2010, 11:09pm
thekohser   Neither the account nor the IPs mentioned in tha...   Tue 6th April 2010, 2:40am
GoRight   JGZ is among that startlingly commonplace breed o...   Tue 6th April 2010, 1:57am
Jon Awbrey   O, I C, you're still stuck on the individual m...   Sun 4th April 2010, 12:38am
Abd   If institutions have learning curves, then they ne...   Sun 4th April 2010, 4:41am
Moulton   If institutions have learning curves, then they ne...   Sun 4th April 2010, 4:35pm
Milton Roe   If institutions have learning curves, then they n...   Sun 4th April 2010, 6:16pm
Moulton   If institutions have learning curves, then they ne...   Mon 5th April 2010, 6:18pm
Abd   Gary Weiss is still putting puffery into his artic...   Sun 4th April 2010, 4:20am
The Adversary   Off protection, Bagley reverted to remove the stuf...   Sun 4th April 2010, 4:31pm
The Adversary   If anyone wants to find out which article Matan ha...   Sun 4th April 2010, 6:16pm
gomi   [Modnote: The posts on Martin Luther have been mov...   Mon 5th April 2010, 5:26pm
Floydsvoid   Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not an accountant...   Tue 6th April 2010, 1:25am
WordBomb   Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not an accountan...   Tue 6th April 2010, 3:01am
Cla68   All this is in my book, by the way...which better...   Tue 6th April 2010, 4:21am
WordBomb   [quote name='WordBomb' post='230278' date='Tue 6th...   Tue 6th April 2010, 5:16am
EricBarbour   [url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...   Tue 6th April 2010, 10:08am
Cla68   [quote name='WordBomb' post='230278' date='Tue 6t...   Wed 7th April 2010, 11:39pm
written by he who wrote it   <snip> I can't wait to see how Weiss...   Fri 9th April 2010, 12:40am
The Adversary   -- will protect the page, perhaps toss out a few...   Fri 9th April 2010, 3:19am
Piperdown   I have PLENTY on this subject. In fact, it compri...   Tue 20th April 2010, 12:56am
Floydsvoid   Here's how it works: the manipulator buys ......   Thu 8th April 2010, 12:35am
Piperdown   Oh, and by the by, Gary surfaces with his old frie...   Tue 20th April 2010, 1:24am


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