It seems 'you know who' is not the worst problem the town has:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/04/naked.town.ap/

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5374435&nav=4QcS

I've been to Brattleboro. I recall the downtown area as been rather
stoney and without a lot of greenery. But that was more than 20 years
ago. maybe it is a little different now.

Old Haasie

The Historian wrote:
It seems 'you know who' is not the worst problem the town has:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/04/naked.town.ap/

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5374435&nav=4QcS


Amazing what neil thinks is chess news. It appears he finds the topics
of naked boys and vermont irrestible combinations?

Rob

Nudity is a "problem"? Gee, dude, do you bathe with your
clothes on? Good ol Historian the Puritan.


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It seems 'you know who' is not the worst problem the town has:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/04/naked.town.ap/

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5374435&nav=4QcS

Chess Freak wrote:
Nudity is a "problem"?

Public nudity in the center of town, yes.

Gee, dude, do you bathe with your
clothes on?

I generally don't bathe in public places. Perhaps your experience is
different?

Good ol Historian the Puritan.

That's an improvement over what the Brattleboro Bedlam calls me.

You may recall that Brattleboro was suggested, by the Bedlam, as a
better choice for USCF headquaters than Crossville. Since Crossville
often has been ridiculed, I figured Brattleboro should be more closely
examined. Also, the Bedlam has frequently posed as the Great Moralist
of US Chess; let's hear him discourse on the homeless camps and other
problems of his home town.

wrote:
I've been to Brattleboro. I recall the downtown area as been rather
stoney and without a lot of greenery. But that was more than 20 years
ago. maybe it is a little different now.

I was in Brattleboro a couple of months ago and it did not seem to
fit your description, except for the prevalence of stone buildings.
There's hardly any place in Vermont that is "without a lot of
greenery."

Uzytkownik "The Historian" napisal w wiadomosci
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It seems 'you know who' is not the worst problem the town has:


Go away, moron.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INNES PLEDGE?

You may recall that Brattleboro was suggested, by the Bedlam, as a
better choice for USCF headquaters than Crossville. Since Crossville
often has been ridiculed, I figured Brattleboro should be more closely
examined. Also, the Bedlam has frequently posed as the Great Moralist
of US Chess; let's hear him discourse on the homeless camps and other
problems of his home town. -- Neil Brennen (aka The Historian, etc.)

An interesting development among the ratpackers
has been a transference of anger from Phil Innes to
the town of Brattleboro itself. It is as if these worthies
are telling us: the United States is not big enough for
the three of them: ratpackers/Brattleboro/Innes.

The process that has hit upon Brattleboro as the source of
their and Edward Winter's difficulties is worth rehearsing.

If hitherto -- indeed for several years -- the
understanding was that Mr. Innes was the source of
ratpacker discomfiture, this line began to alter -- at first,
almost insensibly, but like the old-fashioned snowball
rolling down hill, it gathered momentum and the gravitas
of rgcp slush and gush.

The first sign that something serious was
happening among the ratpackers was the strange
business about taking an Inne Pledge. The point is
not that no one believed anything would come of the
Pledge but that after so many false promises for so
many years from Neil Brennen and others that they
would ignore Mr. Innes -- well, after all of these
faux promises, they were now shouting out the Pledge
with an absurd, nay preposterous, energy. They were
worse than Ray Milland in Lost Weekend. Milland lied
that he was not drinking, but he never thought to say
anything so absurd as that he did not wish to have a
drink. Yet our ratpackers were telling us that not
only would they no longer quaff from the Innes Cup,
they were positively averse from doing so.

Hah!

After a few days, veteran rgcp-ers noticed that
the ratpackers rose was sick. The petals of the
Pledge were withering. Just as Neil used to killfile
this writer several times a week (unkillfiling during
the interim period between killfile spasms) so there
were occasional renewed affirmations of faith. But
they lacked the earlier fervor that this writer likened
to the hoohah and hoofpoofle inside a prairie preacher's
revival tent.

The ratpackers stood about, hands behind their
backs, heads down in shame, shuffling their rgcp feet
in embarrassment. They they were -- Neil, NMnot
Kingston (our A-rated masternot), Louie and
Rapper-Tapper -- like schoolboys caught peeking
through a hole in the girl's john.

Still, the ratpackers shifted target. First, the
target was Phil; secondly, the target was themselves;
and now, in the last fews days, the target has become
the town of Brattleboro, Vermont.

Neil has begun talking about Brattleboro having
"homeless camps," a kind of Rio de Janeiro of the
Green Mountains. Lula da Silva, meet Ethan Allen and
the Green Mountain Boys.

Yet news reports state that Lula will easily win
reelection as president of Brazil. Why? Every Latin
American populist is hated after his term of office.
Why should Lula be an exception? And here, I think,
Neil has suggested the answer. Lula sent the Rio
homeless to Brattleboro.

If true, then Phil Innes must still make the
case that Brattleboro is better than Cross-to-Bear.
How will Mr. Innes explain the presence of possibly
tens of thousands of Brazilians in Vermont and
elsewhere, who may at this very moment be creating
somewhere in the hidden valleys of rural New England a
second Sugar Loaf Mountain or, still worse, another
Cordova Mountain with a statue of Christ the Redeemer,
arms spread wide, surveying all of the American East
Coast. Too, there will be the accustomed tasteless
Latino Catholic Cathedrals with their wax Madonnas and
bleeding Christs, garish in color, rudely religious in intent.

How does Mr. Innes propose to explain this kind
of threat to exemplary white parents of Ritalin-wrecked
children from Denver, Colorado, who would be as shocked
by wax figures with nails and pegs in their hands and tummies
as they are by any other kind of religious fervor?

The effect on scholastic chess of a move to
Brattleboro could be negative. The Brennen bola is
now in Phil's court, and he needs to give it a thwack.
Or he needs to move the Rio homeless, apparently
currently living in Brattleboro, back to Brazil.

Everyone: ya gotta love those ratpackers.


The Historian wrote:
Chess Freak wrote:
Nudity is a "problem"?

Public nudity in the center of town, yes.

Gee, dude, do you bathe with your
clothes on?

I generally don't bathe in public places. Perhaps your experience is
different?

Good ol Historian the Puritan.

That's an improvement over what the Brattleboro Bedlam calls me.

You may recall that Brattleboro was suggested, by the Bedlam, as a
better choice for USCF headquaters than Crossville. Since Crossville
often has been ridiculed, I figured Brattleboro should be more closely
examined. Also, the Bedlam has frequently posed as the Great Moralist
of US Chess; let's hear him discourse on the homeless camps and other
problems of his home town.

I am a bit disappointed; for a moment, I thought I was going to
finally
learn exactly what this mysterious "Innes Pledge" is! Instead, Mr.
Parr
rants on and on like a man in an asylum, yielding nothing more than a
faint hint that it may have something to do with ignoring Phil Innes.
:(

OTOH, I now know that Brattleboro -- a term which keeps popping up,
here and there -- is a city or town in Vermont, and apparently has
little
or no significance except as a tool with which to ridicule Phil Innes.

In addition, Larry Parr has now clarified the issue of exactly who he
is
talking about when he uses the term ratpacker (and when doesn't he use
the term?); until now, we were left in the dark, playing a guessing
game.

The exact source of Mr. Parr's psychotic delusions are unknown, but
at least we now know the who main characters are, or rather, we

Neil Brennen, ad hom of choice: The (fake) Historian

Louis Blair, ad hom of choice: The Nutty Professor [note to self: don't
*ever* answer his questions!]

Edward Winter, ad hom of choice: portray as head honcho ringleader of
the imaginary ratpack! It makes for a good story.

Taylor Kingston, ad hom of choice: pretend he lied about his rating,
pretend he is a mediocre player like me

[note to self: "the Gang of Four" has a nice ring to it, but that ad
hom was already allocated]

[note to self: pick up milk and bread on way home from work for
wifeypoo, and dog biscuits for Phil]

wrote:

An interesting development among the ratpackers

Notice how, in our Larry's hands, a single post by a single person
somehow magically transforms into "an interesting development" among
several people.

has been a transference of anger from Phil Innes to
the town of Brattleboro itself.

Notice how, in Larry's mind, Brennen's post somehow becomes "angry."

It is as if these worthies

Notice, again the plural. Who are these other "worthies" who suddenly
are "angry" at Brattleboro?

are telling us: the United States is not big enough for
the three of them: ratpackers/Brattleboro/Innes.

And now, the people Parr has fabricated make a Parr-fabricated
statement.

The process that has hit upon Brattleboro as the source of
their and Edward Winter's difficulties is worth rehearsing.

Suddenly, with all the relevance of a pumpkin-pie recipe, lacrosse
score, or bus schedule, Parr injects Edward Winter into the
proceedings. Bizarre.

snip remaining Parr ravings

Personally, I have nothing against Brattleboro. Been there once, a
few months ago, to deliver an adopted pug dog to its new owner (my wife
and I are active in Green Mountain Pug Rescue:
www.greenmtnpugrescue.com). Seemed like a nice town. The drive down,
Route 7 south to Bennington, then east along Vermont's southern border
through Wilmington to Brattleboro, was beautiful.