On May 1, 1:43*pm, George Plimpton wrote:
On 4/21/2012 12:04 PM, Too_Many_Tools wrote:





On Apr 12, 1:57 pm, George *wrote:
Try as he might, Cliff Barnes never could get the better of J.R. Ewing..
* *The Wikipedia entry describes Barnes

* * * *During the show's original conception, the character of Cliff was
* * * *modeled after the late Robert F. Kennedy [never knew that.)
* * * *However, he evolved into a bumbling sad sack who was very much his
* * * *own worst enemy. A lawyer and a bureaucrat, not an oil man, Cliff
* * * *was out of his element when dealing in the cutthroat oil business
* * * *and, despite repeated attempts, would always be outsmarted and
* * * *outdone by his rival J.R.

Then entry does say that in the final season, Barnes beat J.R. and took
over Ewing Oil - I never knew that, as I didn't watch it after about
1982 - but that obviously was just a cheap trick by the series producers.

Hawwke-Ptooey very clearly appears to be a bumbling sad sack here. *The
difference is, most of his opponents aren't like J.R. - maybe those
****bags Haskell and gummer, but certainly not Dan, jk or I.

I personally enjoy Hawk's posts...insightful, intelligent and fair.

They're nothing of the kind. *He has no insight, he isn't particularly
intelligent, and he is anything but fair - in fact, he is the most
biased extremist imaginable.- Hide quoted text -

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I disagee.

As I said, Hawk's posts are insightful, intelligent and fair.

Unlike those who disagree with him.

George...you might want to do a reality check...you have problems we
can fix here on Usenet.

TMT