I know this is against the rules

I will say in the early days the Squires site was great, lots of great people and info, and I learned a ton. It has gone so downhill since then and I just can't deal with it, and haven't for a while. I had a couple of run-ins with Mark and I just thought they were ridiculous but it's the idiocy that keeps me out now.

Shame if David S. is being marginalized there, he is great.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
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Honestly, lots of perfectly nice wine geeks on that other board. And there's a lot of Burgundy conversation ...
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The Burgundy clique alone makes lurking worthwhile. There's also a sufficient diversity of comments that, by scanning the topic lines, you can often find new and interesting wines. Jim Cowen's notes there on Nantais and Beaujolais wines, for example, led me to what now are two of my favorite regions. Of course, considering the money I've spent on these wines now, I don't know whether to thank or curse him.

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I think Schildknecht's coverage is getting shrunk and dissed. I speculate darkly that it is because Parker realized that those he construes to be his enemies like David's reviews more. But he still officially has Burgundy.
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I recall some chat in that other place where Miller (Jay Stuart, not Gentleman Jay) responded to a query about the WA's upcoming Burgundy coverage by citing the enormous number of notes he was readying for publication, with the clear implication that he would be writing the coverage. I am a Schildknecht devotee, so I hope I'm wrong. But he really is almost too thoughtful and honest (I think) to be a member of "Team America."
 
originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Ian - it was Neal Martin that was talking about all his Burg notes & I think some are already up in the Wine Journal section.
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Thanks for the correction. When he wrote of 'his report,' since he is one of Parker's writers, I assumed he meant the magazine. In my benighted state, I 'fess, I don't even know what the Wine Journal is.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Begging for something.

Where is Jay Miller, anyway? He's been curiously silent through all this madness.
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We are taking up a collection to buy you a GPS unit that will help you find Jay Miller and Robert Parker's wine board. Actually we've found out that there is tarp money available. Obama will do anything for us to gain back our image in the world.
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
I am the Susan Boyle of the wine internet.
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I'd laugh at that, but I have no idea what you're talking about. (Did though.)
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She's the greatest singer that ever lived. Imagine the power of Tebaldi with the passion of Callas and the looks of Pavarotti.

Susan Boyle is here to stay.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
I am the Susan Boyle of the wine internet.
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I'd laugh at that, but I have no idea what you're talking about. (Did though.)
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She's the greatest singer that ever lived. Imagine the power of Tebaldi with the passion of Callas and the looks of Pavarotti.

Susan Boyle is here to stay.
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Aren't you the same person who told me that Thor Iverson was always upbeat and never critical of anything? It must be the arsenic in the Boston drinking water.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
I am the Susan Boyle of the wine internet.
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I'd laugh at that, but I have no idea what you're talking about. (Did though.)
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She's the greatest singer that ever lived. Imagine the power of Tebaldi with the passion of Callas and the looks of Pavarotti.

Susan Boyle is here to stay.
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I know well the power of Tebaldi, even better the passion of Callas, and much too well the looks of Pavarotti. Though of singers I only know whom I have heard; and I have been in the House many, many times, over and over again for the Greatest Artist; and her name is not Susan Boyle.

(It's about time we got a bit of drift on this thread.)
 
originally posted by Jeff Connell:
I know well the power of Tebaldi, even better the passion of Callas, and much too well the looks of Pavarotti. Though of singers I only know whom I have heard; and I have been in the House many, many times, over and over again for the Greatest Artist; and her name is not Susan Boyle.

(It's about time we got a bit of drift on this thread.)
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You see much, Connell son of Eomund. Too much.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
For your birthday
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Begging for something.

Where is Jay Miller, anyway? He's been curiously silent through all this madness.
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We are taking up a collection to buy you a GPS unit that will help you find Jay Miller and Robert Parker's wine board. Actually we've found out that there is tarp money available. Obama will do anything for us to gain back our image in the world.
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Jay mentioned at the last shindig at Soul Flavors that he occasionally posts on a board run by Robert Parker. This is the Wine Advocate guy, right? One of the pointy guys? That's cool.
 
Why do you pick on the one totally defenseless participant on this board?
Have you no shame?
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No. But it's done out of love and a desire to help. Or, perhaps, a desire to mock without recrimination. This tension between motivations is something on which I need to meditate.

Aren't you the same person who told me that Thor Iverson was always upbeat and never critical of anything?
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Why would anyone say something that dumb?
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:

She's the greatest singer that ever lived. Imagine the power of Tebaldi with the passion of Callas and the looks of Pavarotti.
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Susan Boyle has a very nice voice, but any comparison to either Tebaldi or Callas is not appropriate. As the son of a trained operatic soprano, I can tell you that she needs a good coach to get to the stratospheric heights of the true pros. She might very well have the pipes to do it, but she ain't there yet. And she looks a bit too much like a Monte Python version of a British housewife for me to take totally seriously (superficial, but true).

Mark Lipton
 
I do expect her to start trying to extract someone's brain with a frozen fish and yelling into the camera about it. "MY BRAIN HURTS," etc.

But it's a reality show. Really, what does it matter?
 
She's OK. It's the juxtaposition that freaks people. I hope she wins, but it's not even really a Paul Potts joint.
 
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