That's a serious question, by the way. I couldn't help notice that
whenever someone writes something about me, and 999 times out of 1,000,
it's something extremely malicious and mean-spirited, it's always a
LIE.

When people aren't writing LIES about me, they're writing ARROGANT
LIES. When they take a break from writing ARROGANT LIES, they're
usually seen writing FALSEHOODS. Some of these FALSEHOODS are based on
speculation, hearsay and conjecture. The rest are found in the category
of "deliberate falsehoods". That's when someone says something about
you they know is a lie. Like when Robert Morein says I'm Richard Graham
(even though everyone else thinks otherwise. Though the rest don't all
agree on who I am, of course. Each one lies to themselves in different
ways).

When people are not writing FALSEHOODS, they're saying wrongful things
about me. When they're not saying wrongful things however, they are
sometimes just misappropriating what I say. But usually, they are busy
making up things OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH. Like Robert Morein saying I'm a
crack addict and a murderer. (Sorry to use Robert in so many expamples,
but he really is a shining paradigm of what RAO is all about. Although
he is the sickest puppy on the group, and has got the biggest pitchfork
of all the Demons of RAO).

Sometimes though, people aren't writing FALSHEHOODS about me, or making
things up OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH. Sometimes, they're just fibbing, or being
mendacious, or duplicitious, misleading, beguiling, delusory, roguish,
or plain misleading. But most of the time though, it's just your
old-fashioned LIES that people say about me. Most things said about me
are intentional LIES, and to the truly clueless among you,
unintentional LIES. Here are some of them:

THE TOP TEN LIST OF RAO'S LIES ABOUT ME
(a full list would include thousands of items, actually):
==========================

1. I am Dr. Richard Graham

2. I'm a shill, who's intent is to sell, but not advertize, products.

3. I am affiliated with PWB

4. I'm a working psyhicatrist, specializing in adolescents, and while
it's been proven that I don't have the time to edit my own newsletters,
I somehow do have the time to "rape and pillage" RAO.

5. My tweaks don't work (This is expressed in many, many ways,
including: "Your tweaks are a joke, they're "insane", they're for
"lunatics", etc. etc.)

6. I don't believe myself that my tweaks work.

7. The few people who did try my tweaks and found that they do indeed
work, are stupid. Well except for Sander, who gets the lion's share of
respect because:

a) He's a working audio engineer and
b) He's one of the friendliest types on RAO, he has the "correct
RAO-approved sense of humour" and thus is well liked by all.

So he's just politely told that he's "fooling himself", and some very
lengthy explanations have been written by some very misguided people
(ie. Robert Morein, Ludovic Mirable, Steve Sullivan, etc) , to try to
convince Sander of why he's fooling himself. None have worked, so far,
because apparently, his new stereo speaks louder than the fools on this
group, trying to convince him he didn't hear what him and his friends
have heard. Even though they've never tried the tweaks themselves.

8. I "raped and pillaged" RAO. (That's one of my favourite lies about
me, just for the sheer irony of it).

9. I went to marketing school.

10. My recounting of my recent experiences with Belt's cream elecret
("The Benefits of Cream Electret: "The Cream Is A Scream!" ) was a lie,
and not a true story.


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There's one thing that all of these lies people have written about me
have in common: not a single one of them is true. There's another thing
that they all have in common: NO ONE HAS EVER PROVEN A SINGLE ONE OF
THEIR LIES. In fact, no one has ever even tried to prove one of their
lies. Every time I casually ask someone to prove anything they ever
say, whether its a lie about me, my tweaks, or Arny lying about what he
clearly wrote about Sennheiser 580's or about me being Ernst Raedekcer
in one of his own posts, people on RAO can always be predicted to do
one of two things:

1) Evade the request for proof.
2) Run like hell in the opposite direction, and never show any valid
proof.


Why are so many people lying about me? Because I was kind enough to
give them free tweaks. Something that no one else here has done on the
history of this newsgroup. (That only makes sense here on RAO, so any
new lurkers reading this are going to have to figure that one out for
yourselves). Perhaps this is why most chose not to take advantage of
them. RAO netizens are such a fearful, paranoid group, that they don't
understand why someone they don't know would try to help them. And so
they believe this "helping your fellow audiophile ploy" must be a new
kind of "attack", the likes of which they've never seen before. Which
is why they were in "attack mode" against me FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
And the attack mode only escalated, as they found new reasons to
convince themselves that my giving free tweaks to the group out of the
generosity of my big heart, was somehow an EVIL PLOT, full of deceitful
intention and ill will. I know I've said this before but it bears
repeating: A greater bunch of crackpots you will never find
concentrated in one place, outside of an insane asylum.

The whiners whine...

"But what you're saying is preposterous! It's ridiculous! You're the
one who is lying! For these "lies" as you call them, have long been
accepted as FACT! As Shovels here said to you recently, "We all know
that you.....". And you should know that whatever follows "We all know
that you....." is always a FACT on RAO! Popular opinion by a majority
of ANY group, can always be counted on as being a 101% TRUE FACT! This
is why 10 million Elvis fans aren't wrong, and why all of your tweaks
and the products you mention are BOGUS!"

"People don't have to try them to find out, or even figure out how the
science behind them really works (and not just "pretend" to find out,
and believe they've figured it out). They just have to listen to what
they're about, compare that to what they ALREADY KNOW about audio, and
then laught their bloody guts out! Because as we all know, it's
IMPOSSIBLE for something new to come along that changes what we know
about something else. Otherwise then, what we thought we knew all along
would be wrong, wouldn't it? insert head scratching sfx here

It's IMPOSSIBLE for a majority of people to agree on something, like
your tweaks being a joke, and be WRONG. Yes, EVEN IF HEY HAVEN'T TRIED
THEM! That's the rule of the ignorant bigot, who sheepishly is
constantly checking his peers to see what they think, in order to
establish what he thinks (did anyone say "Shovels"?). That's the rule
we follow here on RAO. If you don't like it, get lost!".

Your honour, I rest my case.