I was the 33rd person to sign. You know kids, we can have some real fun with this and totally screw up the petition. (I could care less about the arguements as to whether or not we need a two newspaper town, I just like the ball busting)
Hey I sent an Email to you and all moderators ... did you get it?
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I guess that the majority of the citizens of Scranton feel that one paper will sufice ... but if you think about it ... maybe we should want a Wilkes-Barre paper in Scranton ... it will show that in comparison to the problems in Wilkes-Barre (i.e. crime) ... that Scranton is relatively a safe place to live ... I get that from watching the news ... but I guess that's not enough for the DD'ers and the Doomers ... I hope that they one day find their crime free utopia to live in ... really I do ... but guess what ... it does not exist!
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
More than that Lus, it shows the true lack of impact that dd.com has.
They complain daily about the Scranton Times, yet given the opportunity to sign an online petition from the comfort of their home or office only 49 of them have chosen to do anything. Expand that number to take into consideration leaving the home to vote in an actual election and you see how dd.com has no affect on anything.
Given the low numbers of signatures on the petition, it's hard to imagine that Joe's inflated claims of site traffic are even a small percentage of what he claims.
You can't have it all Joe - so what is it? Do your members disagree that Scranton would be better served by two newspapers, or are the number of people who go to your site no where near what you claim?
Has to be one or the other, and if you're Joe both answers suck.
they sure do ... at least we don't claim to be anything but what we are ... but Joe sure is giving us attention for a site that nobody bothers with ... what's up with that ...
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
They complain daily about the Scranton Times, yet given the opportunity to sign an online petition from the comfort of their home or office only 49 of them have chosen to do anything.
Furthermore, Mr. Jablowme and Mr. Hewson cannot possibly be the only fake names on that petition. That link is just an invitation for vandalism, a method I'm sure was taken by the likes of Phil McCracken, Amanda Huggenkiss, Mike Hunt, Rosy Palm and her brother, Harry, Richard Cranium, Joe Blob, and others like them.
If that petition contains more than a dozen actual, verifiable names, I will be very suprised. Besides, can't the Leader be delivered via the mail? Or picked up at a newsstand? Or accessed on line? Perhaps the financially responsible folks at DD.com could come up with a more productive way to spend the $5 a week that is apparently burning a hold in their pockets.
Maybe they can all pool their $250/year and adopt a Senior Citizen who is sure to lose their home because their pension, social security, and dividend checks simply aren't enough to live on anymore.
I heard from a very reliable source (actually, I'm making it up, sue me...) that the list of signers of to the petition include the following people:
I.P. Freely, Maya Buttreeks, Jacques Strappe, Ivanna Tinkle, Heywood U. Cuddleme, Mike Rotch, Al Coholic, Bea O'Problem, Seymour Butz, Anita Bath, Homer Sexual, Lee V. Mediately, Eura Snotball, G.I. Manidiot, Oliver Clothesoff, Will U. P. Onme, Hugh Jass, Ollie Tabooger, and Ahmed Adoudi.
Oh my god you don't know how much I needed that laugh Paul ... thank you for your sense of humor ... you and Art ... are pissers ... always good for a Belly Laugh ... my favorite name is G.I. Manidiot ... love that one!
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
LOL ... I wish I had the imaginations that you guys have ... I take things way to seriously sometimes ... like my mother of all overreactions yesterday with the little lawsuit thingy! ... I'm going to try and loosen up a bit ... and I am really going to try to come up with a name to sign with ...
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I like that Art ... even if it is taken I am going to sign it anyway ... That wouldn't be considered identity theft now would it?
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I heard from a very reliable source (actually, I'm making it up, sue me...) that the list of signers of to the petition include the following people:
I.P. Freely, Maya Buttreeks, Jacques Strappe, Ivanna Tinkle, Heywood U. Cuddleme, Mike Rotch, Al Coholic, Bea O'Problem, Seymour Butz, Anita Bath, Homer Sexual, Lee V. Mediately, Eura Snotball, G.I. Manidiot, Oliver Clothesoff, Will U. P. Onme, Hugh Jass, Ollie Tabooger, and Ahmed Adoudi.
Art, no fair...you mined the Bart Simpson list of "crank callers to Moe's Tavern" before I could!! My personal favorite is 'Homer Sexual'.
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Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.
Just signed it...60 signatures so far. I noticed that it won't let you see the signers, which is too bad. Quite the movement (of the bowel variety) that Anti has started.
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Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.
I hope Mr. Connor (an Irish surnamed publisher...I thought they were supposed to be corrupt?) gets a hearty laugh out of his petition.
What would be even more fun would be for him to post the signed petition somewhere after he gets it. I don't care about e-mail addresses, but it would be nice to see how many names on the petiton jive with the voter and tax rolls in Lackawanna County.
Hell, the way they went off about it, you'd think that 100 names by now (even counting the vandalism) would have been very easy to accomplish. Speaks volumes to the absolute lack of influence that site has.
You are so right Paul ... I guess it does show their impact on this city ... which they claim to speak for the entire population of Scranton ... when I signed this morning ... around 7 AM there were 58 signatures ... now here is the real question ... how many of the signautres on that petition belong to the 7 or so actual posters of PD ...
At least we acknowledge the fact and are quite proud of it ... that we are a very small group ... and we know that when one of us speaks ... we only speak for ourselves ... we don't claim to represent anyone other than ourselves ... can they say the same at DD ... I don't think that they can!
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I personally represent 8 signatures on that petition. Subtract those and the ones you guys added and we're down near forty other people that signed. Subtract the jokers from that list and we're lucky if we're talking about 2 dozen. Maybe 30 at best. What a joke.
I wonder if we have any sort of "right to know" what signatures are attached to the petition. After all, as a resident of Scranton, I will be directly impacted by the presence of a second legitimate newspaper in my area. (I don't think anyone seriously even considers the Union News to be a legitimate source of ink and paper. Sorry, Joe....)