Email I got this morning.
Dale,
It seems to me that you barely contribute to the message board. Do you even care about whistles anymore? Seems to me that all you do is pop up occasionally with something completely OT and weird. Like this Enron thing. Maybe it’s time you retired.
Name Withheld
I’m thinking about a good reply but I’m not going to have time until after I finish shredding these Enron documents.
Let’s see, you edit the newsletter, tend the website, read the message boards, deal with the email. . .but you don’t post on an hourly basis.
Dale it is OBVIOUS that you just don’t care.
Sounds like somebody has too much free time on their hands. Blah. Tell 'em to go play their whistle and stay away from the computer…
Hey,
You could duct-tape them to a steel chair, lock them in a room with good resonance, and have them listen to me play the whistle for a couple of hours! 
Dale: I firmly believe there are two types of individuals in the world: ‘Doers’ and ‘Sitters’. The 'Doers do…The ‘Sitters’ take cheap shots at the ‘Doers.’
Those who criticize what they do not understand are fools. Fahgedaboudit.
Cheers to you, Dale, and keep doing what you do.
Byll
Dale,
Don’t pay them any attention, they are just jealous because they are not the Undisputed King of Internet Thinwhistle Journalism.(hope I got the title right) 
Lady Whistler
What? Now you have to contribute to this forum in order to be classified as one who likes whistles? Does the CEO of a company need to contribute to all of it’s forums in order to run the company? I think not.
Participate in the manner and quantity that you see fit
Erik
p.s. So did I win the Haiku contest or what? 
Diss the Undisputed?? Sacrilege, heresy, I say!! Off with their heads…
Tots
[ This Message was edited by: totst on 2002-01-16 12:10 ]
Hey, get off my back, everybody! It was the only way I could get Dale to even acknowledge me! Oh, to tell of the hundreds of nice You’re-Doing-A-Great-Job emails! The flowers I sent secretly. The Clare two-part whistle I sneaked in his mail box. And not a single acknowledgement. Nothing. Nada.
And now this. Publicly. I cannot bear it.
Oh, no! Surely it can’t be Porridge again!
Knock 'em up side the head, Dale, yer doin just fine!
OK, I’ve always been the Devil’s Advocate so I have to pose a few questions here…
B) Can I become an Undisputed One too and receive free stuff from people?? I would enjoy constantly getting gifts like whistles and CDs and clothing (but, please, no more underwear!!) and whistles and even pipes.
IV) Are we paying for Dale’s LearJet or was that a gift (wink wink) as well?
These questions deserve honest answers Dale!!
[ This Message was edited by: John Allison on 2002-01-16 15:06 ]
Name Withheld wrote:
Dale,
It seems to me that you barely contribute to the message board. Do you even care about whistles anymore? Seems to me that all you do is pop up occasionally with something completely OT and weird. Like this Enron thing. Maybe it’s time you retired.
Actually, Name Witheld, Dale still cares a great deal about whistles. It’s just that his collection has gotten so obscenely large from all those freebies, etc. that all he does any more is spread them out on the floor and wallows in them in WHOA ecstasy. Doesn’t leave much time for this messageboard nonsense. And when he does post…well what cheek to try and insert some off topic levity. “Harrrumph!” I say! 
More mundane sobriety!!! No more weirdness!!!(pant, pant) … well…I’d just better go have a little lie down…(pant, pant)…I’ll be better in a minute…
David de la Barre
P.S.
P.P.S. I think Name Witheld is really Porridge’s evil twin “Oatmeal”…either that or he must be one of those bullys from Commie Martyr High…Holy Mudhead, Mackerel!
[ This Message was edited by: Feadan on 2002-01-16 18:24 ]
Personally, I like the completely OT and weird tidbits Dale throws out. It’s the primary reason I got hooked on C&F when I first got here!
I still laugh at the “whistling posture” graphic on the main site.
I think I can answer one or two of these:
I think Dale became undisputed about the same time he became the only tinwhistle journalist. At the time my website was new, it had reviews of the 5 cheapie whistles I’d played. I stumbled across Dale’s site (one of 3 tinwhistle sites on the internet, if I recall correctly), and saw that his reviews were more in depth and professional than mine. I tipped my hat to him at that time (though secretly envious that no one ever sent me a free whistle to review), removed my reviews, and put a link to his site from mine. I believe at the time I even said on my site that his reviews made my pitiful attempts look pathetic.
I think that your dues specifically are earmarked for the caviar served on the Lear, John.
On 2002-01-16 15:05, John Allison wrote:
OK, I’ve always been the Devil’s Advocate so I have to pose a few questions here…
- How did Dale become The Undisputed One? Was this a personally appointed title or is there some sort of commission out there who bestows titles like this on unsuspecting people? Is there a crown and scepter that goes with the title as well?
IV) Are we paying for Dale’s LearJet or was that a gift (wink wink) as well?
These questions deserve honest answers Dale!!
Dear Dale-
Please establish a minimum posting quota. I’d hate to think I wasn’t doing my part.
~L.M.
Oh, I forgot to mention whistles.
Whistles are a girl’s best friend, gentlemen prefer whistles. There.
[ This Message was edited by: LittleMy on 2002-01-16 20:18 ]
Well, this has certainly provoked a lively exchange–exactly my purpose in sharing this little email with you.
The salaries of the chiff & fipple staff, by the way, are paid by the Roman Catholic Church. Don’t ask.
Dale
It could be Porridge - this is weird. Oooohh, what fun!!! We have a mystery on our hands!!!
Sara
You guys must realize the experience that Dale is going through.
You must remember that aside from his day job as a Clinical Psychologist he works on the Chiff and Fipple website, read tons of email and is fed either Mountain Dew or some similar drink intravenously by the Crystal People who are insidiously planning to install the final step to the interplanetary reception net transponder and furth////end transmission/////TRANSMSN INTERRUPT BY AUTHORITY OF VIAGRA, VICE
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On 2002-01-16 21:30, Daniel_Bingamon wrote:
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[ This Message was edited by: Daniel_Bingamon on 2002-01-16 21:34 ]
you know what is freaky is the edit post thingy really says edited by Crystal_People. Scary. But on topic, I think Dale is doing a great job, and I don’t think he has to contribute 800 billion post! Doesn’t he do enough already?!?!?!
Well, must go finished rubbing Petroleum Jelly into my dance shoes (don’t ask, you really don’t want to know )
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, criticise. Keep on doing. Ignore the critics. Why throw stones at every dog that barks at you?