[YodasLuke]

Yodas Luke

You wrote-: "Might I suggest another golf website where pontificating and verbal defecation are the modi operandi?"

Yoda has kindly provided me with this forum where I can freely express my opinions (even if they represent in your mind "verbal defecation"). You are not obliged to visit this forum. Yoda has already stated that he has posted a "caveat emptor" sign in front of this forum. What excuse do you have for entering this forum and then complaining about the "quality" of my posts.

By the way, why do you have to have the psychological need to pontificate about an obvious typo error?

Jeff.

A. Your quote: "Yoda-I have been deciding whether to respond to your last post. Your tone is demeaning and ill-conducive to an ongoing debate. Why can't you simply state your disagreements without pontificatiing, and implying that you are the final arbiter of the "truth"?"

Although I enjoy the depth and nature of many of your posts, I find the above quote offensive. That is, if you are suggesting that Yoda is trying to be pompous or supercilious. In this forum, he is the judge and the jury. Until you start your own website, that’s the law. Enjoy the scenery or find your own pasture.

B. Your quote: “What excuse do you have for entering this forum and then complaining about the "quality" of my posts?”

I have been with Yoda from the beginning. I am a Senior Instructor with this website and I am responsible for some of the content. I need no other excuse.

I’m invoking my right as the “anybody else” in the following quote:
“That doesn't bother me. You, or anybody else, is free to criticise me as much as they want.”

C. Your quote: ”By the way, why do you have to have the psychological need to pontificate about an obvious typo error?”

I have an unfair pet peeve about people using big words and not spelling them correctly. I never “criticise” anyone, but I often criticize. At least I haven’t caught you using “your” as a contraction.

D. I would like to sincerely apologize to you if you assumed that the part of my quote, “verbal defecation”, was directed at your posts. When I thought of a place where the true Pontiff of the Universe reigned supreme, the “verbal defecation” also came to mind. In no way did I mean for that to be a reference to you or your posts. That part was solely directed at the other website. I hope you’ll trust in my stated intent.