[at-l] Continuing Land Sales in Maine's North Woods

[Snodrog5 at aol.com (Snodrog5@aol.com)]

In a message dated 6/10/04 8:38:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ellen@clinic.net 
writes:

> Well, at least TJ has finally gotten the location of the land sales right. 
> A few days ago he was claiming it was all happening in southern and coastal 
> Maine.

 Still upset that I pointed out he was using bogus claims to prop up his 
scatterbrained delusions Bob has now desperately descended from his usual 
manufactured facts and hysterical hyperbole to intentional falsehoods. If anyone lives 
over on the seacoast near Bob, would they stop by and see if he's O.K.?
 I know Bob gets very upset when his words are quoted back to him, but 
there's little chance he'll actually read this far down in a post - here's what 
actually appeared in the post he's hoping no one read:

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> (Bob) "Land speculators and investment trusts have boosted the price of 
> Maine land by 30 percent a year recently. Literally a third of the land mass of 
> the state has changed hands during the past five years or so at ever 
> increasing prices. That's five or six million acres."

(me)- "Most of the property referred to in this oft repeated canard is in the 
more densely populated southern and coastal regions of Maine. The question 
was about the North Woods, Weary - who had bought and their plans for it. Thanks 
for the re-run of one of your stock posts, but - have you any factual, and 
perhaps useful, input to this topic?" 

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 Bob used 'boosted the price of Maine land by 30 percent', 'literally a third 
of the land mass of the state has changed hands', and 'five or six million 
acres' in an attempt to make people from away think those figures are about the 
Maine North Woods without actually saying so.
 It reminds me of when I informed my employees I had discovered they were 
taking 40% of their sick leave on Mondays and Fridays. So upset were they by what 
they thought I was saying, the fact that 40% of their workdays were on 
Mondays and Fridays was overlooked.
 I've told Bob what he needs to do to become a better salesman for the Maine 
A.T. Land Trust. Perhaps it was too far down in the email for him to have read 
it.

TJ