January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

think Jonathan's suggestion is better than yours. No reason for everyone to
bail on the site. Let's just keep things civil. It's fine to have spirited
discussions and disagree with eachother. The best course of action is to try to
accomplsish this without resorting to personal attacks. If that stuff starts
up, the best thing is to ignore it instead of escalating it. This is a great
boxing site---lots of fine opinions and intelligent banter used to be routine
here. I'd like to see it get back to that. Guys like Kent and Jimmy Dorsey
have always maintained a pretty high level of respect for the site, the hosts
and the visitors. Look back at Jimmy Dorsey's posts and you see intelligent,
informative and respectful writing. I'm sure we'll all disagree from time to
time and some insults, hopefully humorous and not threatening or bitter, will
fly, but at the end, we'll all move on to a new subject. |
|10/27/05 07:24:11 AM|Willard|East||Yeah||||10|I'm mostly responsible for all
this crap going on. I started up the whole Ali/Frazier debate again. Nobody
would back down. I'm sorry.Anyways, God bless Jerry Quarry.|
|10/27/05 10:51:54 AM|Pete|Cleveland||N/A||||10|DOES ANYONE ON THIS SITE HAVE
THE COURAGE TO ANSWER MY QUESTION?QUESTION: IF ANYONE WAS TALKING TO ME
FACE TO FACE, WOULD YOU ACCUSE ME OF "RENTLESS NIGGLING."|
|10/27/05 12:31:27 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Come on gang!This is a site to talk
boxing,The Quarry's conduct themselves like they always do,with they utmost
CLASS,it would embarras me two times if they read some of this stuff,We should
very much be thankful for the site, for it is great, Jonathan, I'M from nearby
Delano, and actually played football, against Bobby when he was WITH THE NORTH
STARS and BAKERSFIELD. I did some research on Mike Nixon/Sugar Ray Seales bout
the scores were 48-44, with Nixon hitting the deck twice, if it weren't for the
knockdowns,the scores would have been 46-44 and very close,Nixon was no joke!
Angelo thanku for the kind words and I very much appreciate it.|
|10/27/05 02:17:21 PM|Fan|Fandom||Fan@Fandom.com||||10|Pete I wouldn't say that
to you. I wouldn't say it for a couple reasons. First, I don't use words like
niggling. Maybe that is a word used often in the U.K, but I have two masters
degrees and have never heard of it. Also I don't like the word. I have learned
that words people don't know are useless because your target audience doesn't
understand you. On aboxing site the word "niggling" is a useless word. Any
word that has to be given a dictionary reference to the majority of people
reading it is useless. Noam, speak to your audience, not above them. |
|10/27/05 03:50:18 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Fan: You
must have hated Cosell if you don't like college S.A.T. word usage. Actually,
the word "niggling" isn't that uncommon---I've heard it used fairly often. I'm
not sure if this was a correct use, but I read an article in a car magazine
about Jaguar having "niggling quality problems." That's just one example and
I'm sure there are many others. I'm not sure we should sensor words just because
they SOUND offensive. |
|10/27/05 04:12:56 PM|Noam|same||same||||10|Fan - buy a dictionary and read it.
There is no racial inference to the oft used English word 'niggling'. None-what-
so-ever. For someone with two degrees that shouldn't take long to sink in,
especially if you got the degrees in English, as opposed to gobbledegook. (PS.
stop making derogatory comments about Brits. That's racism. Ask
Pete.)Pete - ditto above. Stop the relentless niggling and mock
indignation when perfectly acceptable words and terms, taken from an English
dictionary, are used here. It's political correctness gone crazy if people have
to sift through the dictionary considering that inoffensive and oft used words
can be re-arranged by some nitwit to pretend that racial insult was intended
when obviously it was not.As I said, I'm willing to leave this site and
return it to its former glory as long as others contributing to the bickering
leave too. It seems that I'm the only one willing to make that sacrifice. Come
on Pete, be a man of conviction.(Please note: don't re-arrange the word