Lorraine, yes you are correct to the goating was really a goading.
Long ago on another thread a threader named Richard Mazz??? who does post on this thread once said about me that my posts have to be understood as a story or discussion that started in a past post, and continues in a present post without an ending.
The post in reference to goating Ron was as if the post was a box labeled "to goat Ron" with its label inside the box, but you were correct to note that the contents of the box, inside the post, was a discussion of a bull trying to hit me, but hit empty air, and as done in the bull ring the matadoro I then will stick into the bull a pointed stick(goad).
But please I do this in fun and tongue in cheek and I do not consider Ron a bad person in spirit or intent. That Ron may cause chaos and destruction and lay waste to this thread and doom life as we know now it, yes, but he is really trying for the opposite.
To me Ron is an honorable man with good intentions. He just read the wrong books, thats all. Different books and a different person would have developed. Ron's only fault (a BIG one) is that he trusts others too much.
By the way, so far on my reading this thread noone has notified Zeev that his reply to Hutch's outter space precious minerals venture had a big error in Zeev's explaination. For sure Zeev knew of it and wanted others to expand on this subject, but Zeev forgets that his turnips are "feared" too much thru respect, even when wrong, and others are very reluctant to qquestion him too much.
Also, parsnip are better tasting than turnips.
Doug |