Re: EOL's

["Chub" <w@xxxxx>]

"Al Colombo" <securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I know he is trying very hard to yank my chain. I can see why so many
> of you truly tire of him.  He's attacked me several times in this news
> group and I've tried to be a gentleman about it by not responding in
> kind.  I don't play games with people, but he can sure stretch one's
> composure.  :-)
>
> Back in the 90s I had asked him to do a sidebar on power supplies for
> one of my technical stories when I was with SDM Magazine.  He said he
> would do it and so I continued on my other work.  I contacted him
> several times about the issue and he continued to insist that he would
> get it to me.  When we came down to crunch time I called him and he
> said he hadn't done it yet.  When I pressed him he became angry and
> stated that he always knew I had other people do my work for me.  I
> told him promptly that I can write the thing myself but was only trying
> to give him some exposure in SDM.  I hung up and promptly wrote the
> darn thing myself in 10 minutes time. Since then, he's tried to cause
> others to question my technical knowledge in this news group.  He's
> certainly a card, is he not? :-)
>
> Thanks for the return comment.
>
> Al

Don't feel too bad, as you know ;  No good deed goes unpunished.
A card, yea that's one way of putting it.
I wonder where that expression came from, "he's a card" ?