Do you think Samuel is the right age to conduct polls?

Good morning John,

Wow! what a morning of nuts…I think I know where they came from too! Yesterday evening when I went for a walk with my little doggie we went past Glebe Park public toilets in Central Canberra, and spotted a man sitting a brown Kingswood motioning his hand back and forth between his legs to a pictures of Venus Williams and Ella Fitzgerald. How odd!

I glanced to the left and there were a group of about 10-15 people huddled in a circle, and then they started jumping inside each other with their private parts in a way which looked like they thought they were frogs.

Whilst I hope I was just seeing them out of context, I do have this strange feeling that they might be the escaped lunatics who have been entertaining you this morning.

Have a great day John.

Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra

PS. About the AVO. Any chance that you can amend it so I can continue to email? I am very mature you know. Like Guy Sebastian, I can give others advice about when to have sex even though I haven't had it yet! Are you having a great day? Did I already mention that? Did you know you can also get a transcript of Samuel's Persiflage for those hard to understand words. Well up until episode 8 anyway. Are you having a great day? I do tend to waffle on a bit and take about ten minutes to say goodbye at the end of my Persiflage. Lucky the outro music goes for 1/2 hour. Hmm. Yes well I don't think so. Hmm. Plain english. Hmm. Yes well. Hmm. Time to get another letter out of the hat for the Persiflage Puzzle. Hmm. Ha ha deary me. We have already had that letter hmm. Stay safe on the roads John. I don't want to lose any listeners this Christmas. I want all of you back next year hmm. Deary me is that the time? Hmm. This is Samuel Gordon-Stewart signing off. Bye for now. Tada. I will say it again. This is Samuel Gordon-Stewart signing off with another email to John. Tada and have a great day!

PPS Chuck is running a smear campaign against me because I banned him for no reason or even without a courteous email outlining my reason. I will still use his feed back for the Persiflage though because Captain Flumes and John R1D3 doesn't fill the void.Hmm. Deary me. Have a great day! And when I say void I mean totally empty space. A vacuum. Hmm. How can I have time to email him when I am always emailing your good self and reading spam? Hmm. Tada. This is Samuel Gordon-Stewart. Have a great day! Tada.

PPPS. Hopefully I will dream about you again in my kitchen tonight making me a vegemite sandwich. Have a great day John! This is Samuel Gordon-Stewart signing off with another PPPS to John. Tada and have a great day! Deary me I forgot to add another tada!

Lifeline phone: 005510300

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UPDATE

I put my glasses on today

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*UPDATE

I will post this now

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dude, you are a fucking retard. I love you.

To: Samuel

From: Ismail

Ismail@stickmyheadupaturkey.com

I think you should ban HoinK

After all, no-one else got a second chance, so why should he?

And for the record, all six votes for 13-year-old drivers are mine - I think the highways would be far more interesting with younger drivers doing the wild thing ... it would be like playing dodgem cars.

I also think Santa Claus should move aside for a teen, or be banned all together.

Now you'll have to excuse me, I have to be at Glebe Park to jump about like a frog in a huddle with other loonies before we all put more calls in to John Stanley.

And John B1-B5 should be banned for his off topic post about you and rabbits.

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*Update

"Well I suspected it was a Brown Noise Unit contributor who was responsible for the votes, and I’m glad they aren’t serious."

http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2007/01/the-first-amusing-thing-ismail-has-written-for-a-while

Thanks again for not hyperlinking Brown Noise Unit Samuel. In every post you over-do-it with links to superfluous twaddle or numerous links to your previous posts, but not when referring to BNU.

Is it because you are being discourteous and uncivil? Or that you don't want people to discover the truth - that you run your blog like Stalin ran the USSR -- with an iron fist!

Here are some examples of your uncanny similarities to Stalin

-Silencing your critics

-Censoring dissent

-Repressing any decent commentary apart from your evil henchman B1B0

-Purging all in sundry to the ether of the Gulag

-Threats of blackmail

-An ever changing editorial policy and ideological control of your contributers comments to suit your own needs

-Your opinion always being final

-Forgetting those who supported your rise to fame and gave you the best ideas for your blog / five year plans

-Unrealistic art and boring photo essays which has as its purpose, the furtherance of the goals of worshipping you in all you untalented glory.

-The continued persecution and stigmatisation of those who suffer from mental illness

"I do have this strange feeling that they might be the escaped lunatics who have been entertaining you this morning."

"This is what happens when you let the loonies out of the asylum."

-Your "hero worship" and massive adoration of talk back hosts is only comparable that of Stalin's "hero worship" of Lenin

John Stanley, "The Voice of Reason" / Lenin, "Brilliant Genius of Humanity"

-Using blanketing propaganda to give the impression that people actually care about the multitude of bilge you send to talk back radio hosts or recommendations you give to the Summernats organisers.

"I would like to take this opportunity to commend Summernats organiser Chic Henry, and the Australian Federal Police, for addressing the majority of my concerns."

http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2007/01/summernats

Samuel. Here is a reality check. Chic Henry or Mick Keelty would not give a hoot about your concerns. Fact. You lack adequate or any proper knowledge when it comes to running an event apart from appearing at the odd 2CC birthday bash filled with geriatrics, going on a lunch cruise with John Kerr, watching Humphrey B. Bear with Ma and Pa or photographing the OB of the opening of Bunnings. You are fooling no-one but yourself.

Just so you know, the age at which one can get a drivers license is a dead issue. Get with the times. Move on. What's next? Should illegal drugs be legalised? Voting age? Oh thats right you mooted that one too.

This post is not meant to be mean spirited. There is a lot to like and admire about you.

We took you from tears to glory and in return you ban us. The cut is still deep and seeps with puss. You have to expect some anger after you ban long time contributers. Thats how emotions work. Rejection is hard, just ask B1B2 when 2CC didn't call him back. Now he hates them. I don't hate you oh dear leader, but for fucks sake, at least have the balls to hyperlink.

Have a great day and thanks for the icepick to the skull.

Regards
Leon Trotsky
Yanovka, Kherson Province, Ukraine

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From Ismail: "Ismail@stickmyheadupaturkey.com"

Dear Samuel,

In your latest reponse to my correspondence Samuel states: "Well I suspected it was a Brown Noise Unit contributor who was responsible for the votes, and I’m glad they aren’t serious".

Well Samuel, while I am indeed serious about banning Santa Claus and free cars for every Australian on their 13th birthday, I have never been a member of Brown Noise Unit.

And, unlike other contributors to your award-winning blog, I am not a "they", and I would appreciate it if you refer to me in the singular.

In fact, I wish to completely dissassociate myself from BNU - they are a pack of bleating half-witted loonies.

I only post my missives on here to antagonise them.

And while you're deleting my votes from you poll, you should delete any from Mister_Stuttbutt.

Yes, another underscored pseudonym from John_R2D2.

You should ban John and his many personalities, and put yourself on thin ice for allowing this to happen.

I will be bringing this up with John Stanley!

With the sidebar poll. Nice one Sam. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Seig Heil!

Yes Baron. It doesn't surprise me though. We gave him a few other good ideas.

1. The name and concept for Editorial Echoes.

2. A podcast

3. 2nd series of Dlognwot

4. The iPhone post

4. Encouragement for more of what has been lacking at that blog: Stepometre, label changes, cafe reviews, Nattie, folding the washing etc...

I think BNU should pinch one of his. The random quote generator.

Samuel is "recovering from the effects of medication". I wish him well.

Someone's gone and spammed Samuel's survey ... I just know he's going to blame me (I said I lodged the other six votes as a joke and the mean spirited kid deleted five of them - I think he gets his jollies banning things from his blog), but I had nothing to do with it.

Come to think of it, there are probably lots of wannabe drivers 13 and under out there who would love to get P plates, and they are using the SGS blog as a portal to have their voices heard in the Halls of Power.

After all, didn't Samuel's leadership lead to that horrid Summernats scourge getting cleaned up?

Now we just have to deal with those loonies jumping about like frogs!

Maybe John B1_B5 lodged one vote for each of his many underscored identities.

Dear Samuel,

Are you obsessed with banning things from your forum?

Just because the public aren't giving the answers you like, it doesn't mean you can ban the question!

I have it on good authority that John B1_B5 logged on under each of his alter egos, which would add up to about 50 votes, and from what I've heard, he does have an unnatural interest in people aged 13 and under.

Therefore I think you should ban John B1_B5 ... and I want to have a second vote - I think 14-year-olds should be allowed to get P-plates, and gather in parks with other loonies and jump around like frogs!

More evidence of his double standards, hypocritical attitude regarding John2Bnot2B and his multitude of log on names.

Just like Stalin he likes to re-write history to suit himself.

Samuel's behaviour regarding his latest poll is indicative of a moron who gets all his info from talk back.

I read that he has made another enemy on the internet. I find it ironic that he has a go at someone because of their red and blue blog design. Samuel doesn't approve? Well I just looked at a photo of him at a lunch cruise with John Kerr and he was wearing a red t-shirt and blue tracksuit pants. GAH! Those primary colours GAH!

I don’t claim to be an expert in fashion, but I know horrible fashion design (or lack thereof) when I see it. Usually it doesn’t bother me, but when it can pass for a weapon designed to make people go blind, it really does annoy me.

Even though your subject was 'Online Polls', your pointless bleating and constant on topic subject headlines have put you on thin ice.

I am not sure of the editorial policy around here but you Sir are close to being banned. Why don't you go and stick your head up a turkey you goose!

Are you talking about Samuel's primary colours in this photo Louis?

GAH!

I just listened to the intro of Samuel's Persiflage and I have multiplied into midget sized Rolph's.

The police have just made an arrest into my horrible stabbing in my driveway. The perpetrator had Samuel's Persiflage playing on his Sony walkman at the time.

Porridge anyone?

Nattie and Humphrey

Humphrey and Nattie

December 19th, 2005<!-- at 12:09pm--> <!--Samuel-->

This morning at 10:30 Nattie, Humphrey and myself watched an episode of Here’s Humphrey in which Humphrey built a magic car which went on an adventure and sent him postcards. As always, Here’s Humphrey was a lot of fun. Nattie sat on my lap right through the show, as did Humphrey, and after the show I took this photo of Nattie sitting with Humphrey.

As per usual, Humphrey will be making an appreance with his good friend Santa on Christmas eve on Carols By Candlelight. Nattie, Humphrey and myself will all be watching.

Samuel

This is why I love Samuel. He is a "crazy, nerdy, funny guy."

(use for critical analysis is permitted under Australian copyright law.)

http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2007/01/madness

Thanks for the links Samuel...all of them. Did you vote in the poll?

And thanks for the Witty Text Plugin.

I would like to distance myself from that goose Ismail. He is on thin ice over here. I have not banned anyone yet, but my trigger finger is itchy and I have a spot on the chain gang in the gulag with Ismail's name on it.

Oh. Since your voting sample has been compromised. Your driving poll is now no longer scientific. What kind of poll is it if you delete some of the votes? Pol Pot ran similar polls and look what happened there.

I voted once, for "18".

The poll was never scientific or representative anyway...I should have borrowed the Slashdot poll disclaimer "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

Incidentally, on the Humphrey B. Bear post, I'll have a Humphrey story shortly (people who were listening to John Stanley on Monday afternoon would already know what I'm going to write about).

Since we are corresponding via proxy, thanks for correcting me point by point Samuel. I feel I over indulged on Black and Gold Pineapple Pieces with a cough syrup chaser before I wrote that.

I do have a challenge though. Any chance of you posting Leon Trotsky's comment on your blog(it is in this thread) and addressing it point by point? If you can correct 50% of his points, he will be purged with an icepick to the skull.

Thanks and I hope you are feeling better.

Hi Sam. I meant did you vote on the poll here? 18 is a good choice though.

I am not sure what code the poll uses here, but I know you can only vote once.

Yes more Humphrey! I wasn't listening to John Stanley so I did not know that.

For the purposes of quality control the real Samuel Gordon-Stewart wrote this:

The poll was never scientific or representative anyway...I should have borrowed the Slashdot poll disclaimer "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

Incidentally, on the Humphrey B. Bear post, I'll have a Humphrey story shortly (people who were listening to John Stanley on Monday afternoon would already know what I'm going to write about).

Another Samuel, who is a fake, wrote the other post by SGS. The Rolph Harris Samuel from the goodies episode.

I hope you enjoyed the freedom of the right of reply, which you see fit to deny over at Stalag 13.

As a founding member of the site, which as been going for more than two years, I take no responsibility for what anyone says here in the comments, just like I wouldn't take responsibility for what anyone says over in your 'non-forum', or in real life for that matter. Only some time of uptight asshole would do such a thing.

Re the ripping the poll off us off remark, the technology for doing polls has been around for ages, yet you only chose to add one to your site a week after we did, and I know you check BNU daily for any comments about your good self. Seems a bit of coincidence to me.

And guy, get a sense of humor for Christ sakes. Must you take EVERYTHING literally and seriously? Do you really think, in all honesty, that anyone would accuse you of stealing a post about the iPhone from here when news of it appeared in literally millions of places at once all around the Net? Or the technology to do a poll on a website?

Jesus god! As a Y generation, you should at least be familiar with the concepty of sarcasm.

Anyway, have fun back at your Gulag trading rabbit recipes with your adultfriendfinder.com-trawling creepy old friends.

And for fuck's sake, grow up a bit and get yourself a sense of humour.

via SGS.com

This ‘Brown Noise’ character (under various names) seems to
be TOTALLY obsessed with everything you do Samuel.
Sounds like a potential stalker to me, and from the language he uses, there’s a good possibility that he may become physically violent !

Haaha ha haa ha haa ha ha ha ha!

Oh man. Keep it up, brothel creeper!

'under various names'

Could he be right? Could the authors of BNU all be figments of each others' imaginations? Am I on acid? I think I may be turning violent. Someone didn't return my phonecall at my favourite radio station because they thought I was a complete fucking asshole, so I might post a picture of a boxing glove on my Grade 2 level history class blog saying 'cop that' and 'boo hoo I'm little bitch boo hoo totally unprofessional blib blub never be back man of my word blib blib dont lick pussy I'm a barely literate lonely old fuck hoo hoo.'

B1-B5... thanks for the laughs, you cocksmoking fuckhole. Go eat a bag of dicks.

I think you have put yourself on thin ice with that post Baron. I know I have been considering banning myself after my post outlining the ideas I claimed to give Samuel. Legally I don't have a leg to stand on. And I don't want to be responsible for any defamation lawsuits that I bring against myself.

I hope Samuel joins up here. Maybe he can do some guest posts. I hope to have him on Video Persiflage at some stage.

Well then, I must be an "uptight asshole". I've faced a defamation lawsuit and narrowly avoided another in the time that I have run samuelgordonstewart.com, that is part of the reason that I take my responsibility to moderate content seriously...of course the fact that I use my full, real name on my site probably makes me a slightly easier target.

As for the poll, I thought you had one for a lot longer than a week, I must have been thinking of another website.

I have a very healthy sense of humour...that I don't find your sarcasm particularly funny doesn't alter that fact.

I'm now curious, in what ways do you think I need to grow up. I'm not having a go at you, I'm just interested.

This ‘Brown Noise’ character (under various names) seems to
be TOTALLY obsessed with everything you do Samuel.
Sounds like a potential stalker to me, and from the language he uses, there’s a good possibility that he may become physically violent !

B1-B5... thanks for the laughs, you cocksmoking fuckhole. Go eat a bag of dicks.

Totally agreed Baron. B1B0 has proved himself to be a complete and utter fuckwit time after time after time. A fucking brain donor. John, get with the program, you are like a kid walking into a movie halfway and asking what is going on.

Violence is not part of my repertoire, but laughing at your constant bullshit and weird behavior is. Fuck. Keep posting please, you are a one-of-a-kind moron.

Regards
Potential Stalker

Is there some way we can stack the votes of the poll from Samuel being an assburger to 2Bnot2B?

He is much more deserving.

I know 2Bnot2B is an internet friend of Samuel but god he is an asshole. I haven't agreed with some of the flames being thrown on Samuel from some sites, but I agree with all flames being thrown on John.

Samuel, who is hoink? And what the hell does he have to do with BNU?

Man I love the internet. Without it, I would be forced to actually do something with my time.

Here's my point, man. You are so pompous you sound like you're making your blog out to be Time Magazine. Know how many blogs are out there? Over five million. Nobody would seriously go to the expense of suing a skint kid who lives with his parents and can't hold down a job for more than a year. The threat obviously made you back down though. And there is no way, there is no fucking way that you can go all over town owing money and these people, and these people, and here's my point, and they come and they piss on your fucking rug. Am I wrong?

UPDATE

That last sentence was a joke

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Maybe if you stopped calling your betters loonies and offering free advice about what form of fowl they should place their heads into, chiming in with earnest advice on matters of government policy, and soliciting unwanted pointers on blog design, you might stop getting so many pissed-off emails from people.

The authors and publishers of our On The Verge column have had legal letters numerous times from Sony BMG, Metlink and countless others and on all occasions its been hot air and posturing to get a free handout. You can take a read via 'other stuff', but you wouldn't find it funny, as irony and satire is not a concept you seem to be familiar with.

Grow up? Stop taking yourself so utterly seriously. I don't want to disrespect your blog, you do a good job and in many respects I admire you. However, you have a massively overblown sense of your own importance. You need the perspective granted only when you move out of home and your parents stop telling you every day that you are special in every way.

It's a big cruel world out there man and it's only when you are truly alone that you can get some sense of perspective on where you fit into it. And I'll give you the tip, when you are really and truly on your own, you start to gain a sense of humility.

I would have liked to say this on your site, but unfortunately Wonko the Sane and Captain Flume were banned.

Anyway, whatever man. You asked for detail and here it is. Seeing as your favourite subject is yourself, i look forward to seeing a point by point rebuttal on your site and for the laughs it'll bring.

Here's the thing, Sam. You listen to so much talk radio you sound like you're a 70 year old woman. Talkback contributors (aside from 2Bornot2B, who is infantile) are qualified to offer opinions because it assumed that by living to old age, they have gained some sort of wisdom. While this is not often the case, there it is.

You should not be so ready to chime in every two minutes with your own thoughts when you aren't qualified to comment.

To my mind, you aren't qualified to comment in the public arena with the sort of authority you seem to feel you have unless you have some sort of adult life experience to back it up with. You don't earn respect by being a precocious kid who thinks he knows everything.

You will appear, as Chuck so aptly commented, like a child who wanders into the middle of a film and wants to know what's happening.

Open up your eyes a bit and stop being so self-fucking-important.

Cop That! Oh ..... and here's a little present for BNU and The Beige Baron...... for your lack of courtesy - It's just not the done thing you know -- saying you'll respond to my post and then not following through on your promise . It's unprofessional, and totally inexcuseable.

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Well guess what ? They never did reply to my post ! As far as I'm concerned, they've 'done their dash' , once and for all ! I shan't be commenting again after THAT disgraceful performance, and I won't be reading BNU anymore either, because I'm sick and tired of reading those corny and annoying adverts being played over, and over, and over, and over .

Besides, I've got enough 'on my plate' without allocating any time to the radio.

Now excuse me I have to go and watch Serena Williams on the telly!

Absolutely nothing. He is from a completely unrelated website...the only reason I brought him up was John's comment about physical violence.

Beige Baron, thank you. Your advice sounds logical to me. Whilst I disagree with some of the comments about talkback radio, I see plenty of merit in what you have said, and in a few years I will have the opportunity to look back and see how close to the mark your advice was.

I think my online presence presents me as bolder than I really am, it probably also presents an unrepresentative and exaggerated self-interest...all things I will need to address in due course.

Dude, I accept what you're trying to say. A flame war serves no-one, but you made this personal for me when you banned me and others for no good reason, and then proceeded to attack from you site offering no right of reply. 

Everything I ever wrote on your site as WONKO was in good fun and man, for a while your site was funny and cool and unique, because you revealed your own life, and people responded with amusing commentary -- see: Spear and heatseeker. Which, I might add, was not malicious or designed to hurt.

See:

http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2006/03/new-podcast

If you read the comments at BNU in any detail, you'll see I am regularly paid out upon by far more eloquent folk and I take it in the spirit it was intended.

I can no more be responsible for what Chuck, who is an author for this site, says in the comments section as I can for anyone else who is not.

Those not associated officially with BNU have a 'not verified' next to their names in the comments, but I reserve the right to fucking laugh my arse off if what they say amuses me. And I reserve the right to respond or not when they piss me off. Who cares, man? When the meteor crashes into the earth and we are all killed, WHO CARES? (random capitalisation courtesy B1B2).

Jesus, you'd be a killjoy if you didn't, even when harsh remarks are aimed at oneself.

So, if you want to snipe at this site publically from your much better-patronised site, at least discriminate what commenter you are talking about and link to the comment in question, which was what what was raised earlier. Of the ten or so regular contributors to BNU, both men and women, Chuck and I are the only ones here who have ever published anything SGS-related. The rest are comments, for which we take no responsibility. And to which, until now, you have never responded.

Why should the rest of our site authors be mocked by you, when you refer to 'Brown Noise Unit' on your blog, because of those who leave comments on our articles? Contrary to you, people are free to say what they like here.

Anyway, that was seriously OT... I want to make it clear that I am as opinionated as the next guy, but I freely and often take the piss out of myself and do not take myself seriously. Sometimes I often despair of myself. See here if you do not believe me

http://www.brownnoiseunit.com/im_sorry_sir_i_wasnt_listening

I am not in a glasshouse, I smashed mine long ago. And unlike you, I know no-one else reads this site beyond the few who write for it. So dude, just loosen up a bit okay, and stop taking everything so damn seriously!  

PS B0=B3 is still a master assclown who rips on you without you caring to realise it because you think he is your friend. He is a patronising, gloating, deluded creep who was far and away the most personally abusive on your site, and left your site only to return and gloat when you purged.

Think on that... but I am expecting nothing because you said yourself on your site 'nothing would change your mind'. Which is a very dangerous thing for you to say, unless you want to have the mentality of a 19-year-old for the rest of your life.

One of the most important parts of my young adulthood was reflecting on the enormity of my fuckups. To never admit you are wrong makes you a fucking fool. And at 27, I am always wrong.

You aren't a fool... are you Sam?

Don't get too serious mate ... we're just a bunch of lunatics trying to have fun.

And rest assured, I have used the handle heatseeker since I was a recruit in the Army (heat seeker, as in one who constantly draws heat).

Although I am in the media, I have never been a member of The Spin Starts Here (not interested in inane banter about reality television of soapies, but they seem to do what they do well and enjoy themselves), Needs to be Glassed (again, they have their moments, but they're not my thing) or Riot Act (too Canberra-centric and rugger bugger for my tastes).

I have been a respected contributor on a host of forums for years (okay, so not this one, but some other people seem to respect me).

I know there was a COMPLETE TOOL on Riot Act going by Heatseeker (note the capital H) who was making off the wall homophobic threats of violence against you, but I can assure you that was not me, and I'm sure that other BNU members will vouch that I lean slightly towards sophistication in my outlooks on life.

Okay, so maybe I have unfulfilled aspirations to one day lean slightly towards sophistication, but I am definitely not a violent homophobe.

I think that's what you off on the wrong foot (hence the veiled "don't make me" threat from you) with me ... it's a bit like taking the comments of the multitude SGS clones that regularly turn up in forums as the real deal.

There are trolls out there who assume personas at random to mask their mischief.

Meanwhile the biggest monkey on your back in your ... is it a forum or blog? ... is that silly old fool John B1_B5 - you're a cool happening crazy nerdy blogger, and he's just a semi-retired porn site trawling creep who constantly makes off-topic comments and drags your site down to his level.

John should just stick to his multiple boring blogs that he posts under his many personalities.

Samuel:

I am seriously considering calling out the big guns when it comes to lawyers!

First, John B1_B5 refers to me as that `Brown Noise" character (under various names). As I have plainly stated, I am not a member of Brown Noise Unit, which is inhabited by halfwits, lunatics and perverts. Therefore John's association is defamatory!

Indeed, BNU moderator Chuck A Spear has plainly stated I am on thin ice for my postings there.

Next John paints me as a "potential stalker" and states: " there’s a good possibility that he may become physically violent !"

On what does he base these assertions? Meanwhile, they are made all the worse by you offering to tell HIM where I live!

Trust me, when I launch my legal case, you'll both have as much a chance of defending yourselves as you would of winning a lottery if you hadn't bought a ticket!

Absolutely nothing. He is from a completely unrelated website...the only reason I brought him up was John's comment about physical violence.

Beige Baron, thank you. Your advice sounds logical to me. Whilst I disagree with some of the comments about talkback radio, I see plenty of merit in what you have said, and in a few years I will have the opportunity to look back and see how close to the mark your advice was.

I think my online presence presents me as bolder than I really am, it probably also presents an unrepresentative and exaggerated self-interest...all things I will need to address in due course.

I've watched the back-and-forth between you and other BNUers with interest from the sidelines. Although it may seem a little caustic at times -- particularly if you're on the receiving end -- most of the jousting is done in good humour. On the odd occasion when comments are 'serious', I'm pretty sure that they're well-intentioned.

The Baron's right, some of the baiting that we dish out to each other on BNU is pretty ferocious. What I'm saying is that it's not a pick-on-Samuel pack mentality.

Also, while I'm at it, I'll back up heatseeker -- I've never seen him post anything that would suggest he's a homophobe. So I think you can safely assume that Heatseeker (note the capital 'H') is a different person.

Anyway, I hope you're not taking any of this too much to heart.

To bring the tone back up, I clicked on a link Samuel provided when addressing one of my posts point by point and found this. For me it is probably book 2 verse 3 in the genesis story of Wonko/heatseeker/chuck.

Click here for the post and suggestions.

*Note B1_B2's remark?

Yes, champagne commentary ... Samuel hadn't laughed so much in a long time and, yes, there was an inane comment from R2_D2 with a link to a picture of a very odd sculpture:

http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2006/04/black-gold-change-their-label-design