Re: Group-Bauer Plan

taylor.kingston@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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<raylope...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 22, 6:45 pm, taylor.kings...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

The term "ad hominem fallacy" is widely misunderstood and misused by
posters to this group. This too is an observation, not an argument.

Que tal, TK? Translation: is Tal the best speculative attacking
player ever, or should we give the honors to Lasker?

"¿Qué tal?" is a Spanish idiomatic expression, roughly equivalent to
"What's up?" or "How's it going?" For speculative attacking play,
Nezhmetdinov deserves consideration.
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I'll just free-up google & post this research here...

Hope no-one minds. Initially, I deemed it relevant to the thread
re-hashing Fischer's commonly understood attitude towards them with
bumps & curves, but I've had me prunes & it's all disappeared down the
cyber plug-hole - so to speak..

sublime cowgirl
Sep 17th, 2006 at 12:10 am

Oh and for those questioning the veracity of my tales, I dug out Tim
Flannery?s Throwim Way Leg this afternoon published in 1998, 4 years
after we were up there. His conversations with his Miyanmin friends
(from similar regions as our friends btw), and their culinary activities
pre 1973 make my stories somewhat dull in comparision

p59 ? Even during the early 1980s they would refer to the neighbouring
Atbalmin people as bokis es bilong mipela (literally, our refrigerator).
While there is a myth among westerners that most New Guineans were
cannibals, cannibalism as it was manifested among the Miyanmin is an
extremly rare thing [even]among New Guinea cultures.

Before 1973 the West Miyanmin would divide the year into two seasons -
the drier time was the pig hunting season?..the wettest part of the
year?was the man hunting season.

excepts from p65-66
Flannery recounts ? ?on the lonely nights we spent together on the
mountain Anaru told me of raids he had taken part in as a young
man???The killing had to be quick and total. The men and older women
were usually dispatched by being grabbed from behind, and a sharpened
cassowary leg bone thrust violently downwards into the gap between
collar bone and shoulder blade, so as to pierce the lungs.

?Anaru mimed a demonstration using an old blood-stained dagger, with me
as a mock victim. The feeling of his sinewy arms around my neck pinning
my body to his and the point of bone biting into my skin , sent a shiver
down my spine. It was all done so expertly. The bodies then had to
butchered, again quickly and efficiently. The heads, arms and legs were
detatched from the torso using bamboo knives. The torso would be gutted
[more graphic detail etc etc?]

?The bearer would then begin his long trek back to his village. The
community would eat well in the next few days. If he was exceptionally
lucky, he may also carry away a child in a string bilum.?

Flannery always gives good copy, maybe those salacious journo?s should
head in his direction. Dang it, maybe the cowgirl should freelance on
this one herself! LOL

tigtog
Sep 18th, 2006 at 8:27 am

Some good stuff from people who?ve actually lived/studied professionally
in PNG here - thanks all.

As to Amanda?s point in the first comment about just how much Paul
Raffaele is responsible for this beat-up, he has since had to
acknowledge that he speaks no local PNG language, that he has spent less
than 6 weeks total ever in the province (three weeks of that with
tabloid reporter crews), and that even the academic whose thesis he most
relied on for his book chapter on the Korowai tribe says the practice
ended decades ago. [link]

sublime cowgirl
Sep 18th, 2006 at 9:55 am

I think Raffaele comes across as rather niave in more than a few ways.
For example, the bum flashing part on 60 minutes, apart from being poor
taste, may have been a serious cultural insult, but it seems he was just
too excited to give serious reflection to the implications of any of his
actions, however benevolent he may have thought himself to be.

I hope i haven?t confused y?all but I haven?t lived in Papua (it was
called Irian Jaya a few years back)?just v. close to the Papuan border
in the Star mountains but i understand there are/were some cultural
similarities across those regions. (The border is just an arbitary line
on map imposed in the colonial carve-up after all ) Tim Flannery?s
Throwim Way Leg covers his exploits across both West Papua and PNG by
the way, and is well worth the read!

YOu know this is all probably just a ruse to cover up the real purpose
of Naomi Robsons visit, which, considering how slim and slim the papuan
men looked - was actually meant to be a story on the extolling the
Weight Loss merits of ?CANNIBAL DIET?.

....

m.
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