Potshots...The Untold Story!!!

[Alex]

Bless you soulfilms. Real, substantive action.

[SHATOUSHKA]

SF.... even i can post an adequate amount
of alex doing such... but the reason why i have
yet to do so... is because i know it will be a
futile effort.

X will post a 'pot shot'....
then alex will come along and give a long, drawn-out
explination about blah blah blah...
taking this thread waaaaaaaaaay off topic...
in the sense that alex has made the claim that
when a person 'pot shots'... they do so with
the motive.

therefore, i have asked alex to provide the
unsubstantiated proof that his claim to the
term is valid. he has yet to do so.

i rest my case.


edit--

i just wanna add that... since alex claims that
pot shots are done with motive, then it should
be very easy for him to post his own pot shots.

playing into the game and giving alex what he
wants will not deter me from believing that alex
is merely skirting the issue i have brought up.

we all know it.
even alex.

[soulfilms]

actually, i was referring to alex pot shotting me.

[SHATOUSHKA]

yesh yesh! me too....

but here's what i'm saying:

alex claims that pot shotting is founded in a
sinister motive to perform said action against
another poster

if this were a true claim, then the pot shotter
premeditates his action... and can clearly label
that post accordingly.

therefore, since we all know that alex has pot
shotted... and since that means that alex had
premeditated his pot shotting actions....
alex can certainly provide his own examples
of times when he has pot shotted someone.

h.e.l.l.... all he'd have to do is venture into
his S8 forum for some quick examples....

but instead, alex wants to play this game....

fine... go ahead...

i'll sit here and watch... making appropriate
comments along the way. *raises eyebrow*

but don't say i didn't warn you

*whispers to SF: i know which ones you are talking about*

[Alex]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by shatzy:
[QB]SF.... even i can post an adequate amount of alex doing such... but the reason why i have yet to do so... is because i know it will be a futile effort.

X will post a 'pot shot'....
then alex will come along and give a long, drawn-out explination about blah blah blah...
taking this thread waaaaaaaaaay off topic...[QB]

Now that is an example of a potshot, it portends to predict the future while trivializing the unknown answer.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by shatzy:
[QB]
i just wanna add that... since alex claims that
pot shots are done with motive, then it should
be very easy for him to post his own pot shots.
[QB]

Wrong, it would be very easy for YOU to post what you term to be a potshot.

[Alex]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:

alex claims that pot shotting is founded in a
sinister motive to perform said action against
another poster

if this were a true claim, then the pot shotter
premeditates his action... and can clearly label
that post accordingly.

therefore, since we all know that alex has pot
shotted... </font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>


That would be a potshot. It attempts to make a foregone conclusion in which no evidence has been supplied. Your good at this Shatzy!


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:

and since that means that alex had
premeditated his pot shotting actions....
alex can certainly provide his own examples
of times when he has pot shotted someone.

h.e.l.l.... all he'd have to do is venture into
his S8 forum for some quick examples....</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

That is a potshot and a half. For you to trivialize the good work I do on that forum is definitely a buckshot potshot.


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:

but instead, alex wants to play this game....
</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>


Another potshot, calling what I have discovered in earnest, a game.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:

fine... go ahead...

i'll sit here and watch... making appropriate
comments along the way. *raises eyebrow*</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>


aka...You'll just sit here and, and, take POTSHOTS!!!


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:

but don't say i didn't warn you</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>


Ridiculing an outcome before it happens is another form of a potshot.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:

*whispers to SF: i know which ones you are talking about*</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Alex whispers to Shatzy, "no you don't".

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ February 14, 2003 03:55 AM: Message edited by: Super-8mm in the DigitalAge ]</font>

[SHATOUSHKA]

alex....... quoting me and calling it a pot shot
is hyprocritical. making a claim without evidence
is not called 'pot shotting'.... or do you want
to have another semantics war?

and secondly,
i do know what SF is talking about because i
saw the GD threads she was in... so don't tell
me what i do or do not know.

thank you

[Alex]

GD, what's that?

[SHATOUSHKA]

g.a.w.d.d.a.m.m.e.d.

[Alex]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by shatzy:
alex....... quoting me and calling it a pot shot
is hyprocritical. making a claim without evidence
is not called 'pot shotting'.... or do you want
to have another semantics war?
</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Here is my quote, once again...

"ridiculing an outcome before it occurs is a potshot"

That's what you did, and that's what it is.