From: RobIrving@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:59:04 EDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:30:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Who Is Jerome Clark?

>To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Who Is Jerome Clark?
>Date: Thu, 11 Jun 98 20:51:56 PDT

Jerome,

>>So my May 14,
>>1984 letter to Clark concluded: 'The yacht Hanky Pank made her
>>maiden voyage of 1984... Perhaps you will join us someday (and
>>your body will be found floating in the Chesapeake).'

>Note here further evidence of Mr. Brookesmith's inability to
>read. Here the "joke" has Klass implying that it is he who will
>have me murdered. Let's have a show of hands out there. How many
>of you would take as a "joke" -- not even from a friend here,
>mind you, but a longtime adversary -- a remark intimating a
>desire to have one done in? No, Mr. Brookesmith, you've already
>voted. Any other hands? No?

If not, more than likely because it's such a childish exercise,
which either becomes you or it doesn't. Who can tell? Perhaps we
should vote on it with a show of hands.

Anyway, never one to shy away from childish exercises I'll stick
my hand up.  You'd have to be either a fool to not sense that
Klass was alluding to his previous comments (how good a joke,
and how funny they were is irrelevant)...either a fool, utterly
humourless or anxious for any opportunity to score points off
the guy, due to an underlying resentment over separate
longstanding issues, I suspect.

Clearly you appear more comfortable taking disagreements down to
a personal level.  So you'd be hard pushed to convince anyone
who knows that, other than a half-wit, that Klass's comments
constituted a 'death-threat'.

Curious for one who likes to parade as being 'tolerant of
ambiguity'. I see you've read Festinger. You should read him
again.

As you asked,

Rob