From: Paktor@cup.portal.com (David L Paktor)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast,soc.misc
Subject: Re: More responses from Ralph Winston forthcoming in a few days
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:51:00 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


 In Message <gate.Du7eiB1w164w@b-cpu.UUCP>
    ralphw@b-cpu.UUCP (Ralph Winston)   writes:

>    Those of you who are eager to read my amazingly stupid, inaccurate
>    and malicious responses will probably get just what you deserve...
>
>                               Ralph Winston

Oh, Happy Happy, Joy Joy!  Breathless anticipation!  Eager delight!  Drool!
    Slurp!  Dribble!  Yummmmm....   And -- what's that smell?

Oh, right.  Sarcasm, of course.

Those of you who have been following the net for the past year or so
    may remember Winston as the 'Talmudic Scholar' who posted a bunch
    of trash purporting to be "excerpts from the Talmud", and which was
    supposed to "prove" something-or-other.  After a few refutations
    from persons who were genuinely knowledgeable about such matters,
    verifying the fraudulent nature of these purported quotes, someone
    recognized and identified the whole collection as a reprint of early-
    -part-of-the-century Polish anti-Semitic libels.

One of the clear indications that it was Polish, (besides actually
    recognizing it historically) is the nature of the transliterations,
    which follow the rules of Polish orthography -- in particular, 'sz'
    for 'shin' and 'w' for 'vav'.

The fact that he let it slip by, combined with the fact that he had
    access to such stuff at all, makes me wonder if Ralph Winston is
    for real -- that is to say, if he is really who he purports to be.

I suspect that he is posting under a pseudonym, and is, in fact an
    older person of Polish origin, probably one who emigrated late
    in life, at an age where linguistic patterns are well-settled in
    and hard to change.

For all we know, 'he' may even be a woman, posting under a cross-gender
    as well as cross-cultural pseudonym.

Of course, his frequent excursions into denying the murderous intent
    of the German state towards the Jewish People during World War II,
    and his protestations against their burden of guilt, suggest that
    he may actually be a German, instead.

But in either case, he would not be the young WASP-y individual who
    tastes-good-like-a-cigarette-should that the name conjures to mind.

Granted, these are narrow clues from which to try to move on to such
    a grand conclusion, so this is nothing more than sheer speculation
    on my part.

Does anyone "out there" have any more solid information to go on?
    Does anyone know whether this 'Ralph Winston' is character really
    who 'he' purports to be?  Or who 'he' is really?

Can we take a clue from spelling his name backwards?  I get something
    like:  "Notsni wh plar"  which I make out to be:  "Notsi" (=Nazi)
    "wh" (abbreviation for "with his") "plar" (loose anagram for "pals").

Nazi With His Pals ===  Ralph Winston.  Now, that tastes like a cigarette...

David

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   A recent survey showed that 80% of Americans think Dan Quayle is
    not qualified to be President.  What is disturbing about this,
              is that it implies that 20% think he is. 

     However, we can take some reassurance in the notion that these
      are probably the same 20% that think Elvis is still alive...

		(Actually, the number is closer to 17%;
		Dan Quayle thinks that's more than half.)

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