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Thursday, November 06, 2003
 | Meanwhile on the FFF
Yet again, the poster known as Dan Peters posted more nonsense about a Dave Hyles sighting. Dan Peters, if you are new to this storyline, came onto the FFF a little over a year ago and insulted several people. He focused on those who have published documentation about the gross corruption of Jack Hyles and Dave Hyles (the two preachers of the now-declining Hyles dynasty). Back then, he wanted it made clear that he was a supporter of Dave Hyles. In fact, he was obnoxious and vehement enough that many people thought he was Dave Hyles. Then when Madisonmadness and others started posting about Dave Hyles' latest awful sins, and it looked like there might even be criminal charges brought against Dave Hyles, Dan Peters changed his story. He posted that he was moving to get away from Dave, leaving town entirely, etc. This part of his story became highly elaborate, overly dramatic, and very annoying. And prolonged. He would post rambling accounts about trying to get away from Dave. His posts took on the tenor of a badly written cloak and dagger story. But, of course, everybody knew that if Dave Hyles even knew Dan Peters at all, Dave didn't care and wasn't looking for him. |
So after about two months of Dan's twaddle, I nominated him for the FFF's first Net Award for Cluelessness and got a few votes. Yesterday he posted another Dave Hyles sighting, letting us know he (Dan) was only in town on business and reminding us that he remained unseen and unnoticed by Dave Hyles. So I posted the award that you see on the left in the FFF gallery.
Two of the posters (Ryan DeBarr and Chris Connally) objected to this and reminded me that it was not of grace to do that, so I apologized on the forum. However, several days have gone by, and we have now been spared any more Dave sightings from the writer known as "Dan Peters". Chris Connally suggested that perhaps I created the trophy for strategic reasons. I let that go unanswered. If I humiliated a person who truly is feckless and merely irresponsible, I do apologize for any roughness that has caused him pain. If, on the other hand, I have eliminated a source of deliberate confusion and rumor designed to interfere with a clear and organized response to gross corruption in the pulpit, that will have to remain my business.
