If it was all for a good laugh, why would you get mad at the people who claim that you're lying because you are really in Canada? Wouldn't that be the point of the joke you are supposedly laughing at?
Or beg me like a little girl to remove the "fake" email address from canada that was set up for a "joke."
Or swear that he really, really, really wants Ottoman to come to New York and confront him in person, except that he wanted to make Ottoman think he lives in Canada.
Woah! Yet another thread where NewYorker gets mega-owned! This one is hilarious!....oh wait..aren't they all? Someone please change the thread title from Iranian President speaks at Columbia to NewYorker speaks from Canada.
Thank you everyone. Like Ottoman, I've been sick in bed the last few days - you've really cheered me up. Thank you so much. P.S. Otto: The offer still stands. I'll cover your ticket under the above stated conditions.
I have been unable to log in for the last 24 hours. Emails sent to me through the board weren't being received. I tried to change to a different email address to see if it would fix it, but couldn't get the activation email so my account was in limbo. Clutch just assisted me by manually activating my account from the server side. During this absence, I did send you an email, New Yorker, at your .ca address. As I stated in that email, before I front for an airplane ticket I request a tangible way to track you down so you don't suddenly declare the whole offer a joke or a test or whatever, haw haw. I require the ability to protect myself from you disappearing off of the face of the earth after I've shelled out the cash and set aside the time. I honestly don't think that this request is unreasonable based on the percentage of the time you reverse previous statements that appeared factual and claim they were only a joke. Even if we assume that each of these instances of witty repartee started out as such, as you claim, your sense of humor is so labyrinthine and unfunny to everybody else that it is impossible to determine when you are making a joke or not. In any case, you have accomplished for yourself just about everything I had hoped for you when I took you up on your offer. It hardly seems that you can do any more harm to yourself, but as I did say I would come I will allow you the opportunity to surprise me.
BTW, it really is amazing to me that you can't even tell the truth about believing that I was really sick. You instead have to lie directly to my face and then snipe from afar like this. You are a truly special human being.
well, techniquely i didn't set up the email address for the joke, but more like 5 years ago when i use to write stuff online and needed a pen name. i don't know how i ended up with a canada account though, but i knew using this one would cause you to question whether i was really in new york though. so i just switched my clutch email address to it and wow! just beautiful man, just beautiful. it doesn't matter if you spread the email address around, it's a useless account, but i had to keep the gig up ya know. i really thought at first it would be otto to put it up...so when he didn't, it was nice of you to do it for him. thanks man.
I won't give out my home address, that's just too much of a risk. I got your email. What I could do is put you in touch with the camera person and the person who'd interview you - would that work?
I have to be able to find you. Or you can pay in advance. Anything short of that is unacceptable. The idea, after all, was that you were going to prove that you weren't hiding behind the anonymity of your web browser. If you don’t satisfy that basic condition, what are you proving? BTW, you also have to be present on my film and answer my questions on a 1 for 1 basis. Also, on second thought, I’m only interested in meeting you, not some third party interviewer. That was, IIRC, the whole point of your challenge – you challenged me to meet you not some third party that you could hide behind. The idea is that you are hiding behind others. Fundimentally, hiding behind your monitor, or your interviewer isn't any different.
I thought you had an uncle here and stuff to do anyway, what are you risking anyway if you have people here to visit? No, I will not appear on your film. I am paying you to appear on mine. That's the only reason for paying you, so that you appear on my film. Otherwise why would i do it?? I am willing to meet someone you know in nyc ahead of time to establish credibility, but you will not get paid until you deliver.
Again, you told me to come visit you to show that you aren't hiding behind your internet connection. You fail your own test.
No, I told you to come visit to give YOU a chance to prove you aren't hiding. So instead, you come up with conditions you know I can't possibly accomodate and then twist it into me bailing out. So not only are you a weasel, but you're trying to paint me as the one bailing out. My offer still stands. I will pay your plane ticket if you come up here and appear on film, that's the original offer....now you're the one putting 20 stipulations that I won't agree to.
You two lovebirds can draft a contract with an electronic execution clause if accountability's a problem...
