A Conversation for David Moses OBE
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Jan 3, 2003
An under-estimate ? Thats a planner for you.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Jan 3, 2003
The quote reads - to say I'm delighted is an under estimate - I'm assuming this is actually what he said and not a typo in your behalf.
My contention - causing all the haedaches - is that planners either desperately under-estimate because they have no experience of normal human interaction, or they assume that people will react in the anally retentive way that they do and vastly over subscribe.
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 6, 2003
Oh. I was miles away. I just thought he did good work to do with the terrible train crashes that happened in Hertfordshire during the last few years.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Jan 13, 2003
Somebody had a sense of 'deja-vu' about this entry???
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 13, 2003
Why? I haven't seen an article writen by anybody else about him. If there already is, could you point me in it's direction to see if I have missed out any important information./
Cheers!
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Feb 26, 2003
Yeah, Monk, what's up?
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Feb 26, 2003
Let's just say that I have good reason to be suspicious of its provenance: the thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F105801?thread=229407&skip=0&show=20 will explain why.
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sprout Posted Feb 26, 2003
A google search confirms that this chap clearly exists. However, the entry is a bit pedestrian. Is there nothing more interesting to say about him? If not, is it worth having an entry on the topic? I suspect not.
Sprout
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Feb 26, 2003
When I read it I thought it had come straight out of a newspaper or newsletter. Hence my suspicion about it.
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sprout Posted Feb 26, 2003
A local newspaper maybe? certainly possible. It doesn't appear to have come from anything that is on the web, in any case.
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Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 Posted Feb 26, 2003
I searched the London Gazette, which publishes the honours lists, but couldn't find any David Moses OBE.
Perhaps the date or spelling is incorrect, or it was a different honour? If the Rev could provide the listing reference that would be a great help.
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sprout Posted Feb 26, 2003
The online Guardian has Mr Moses down for an OBE in the New Years honours, for services to emergency planning.
Sprout
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Great Ceasers Ghost Posted Feb 26, 2003
Monk, you are sad beyond even the vast spectrum of upsetting events I have born witness to, and i've been to borehamwood.
Cease this tiresome witch hunt
The real Monk would be chuckling at you right now.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Feb 26, 2003
No witchhunt, mate. Just very fed up and annoyed with others wasting my time for their own amusement.
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Feb 26, 2003
I can understand the frustration, but I still think it's important to avoid prejudicial and/or insulting treatment in PR. As others have said, a web search very quickly turns up that the subject of the entry did, in fact, receive the OBE for the reasons detailed in the entry. However, nothing I saw on the web had more than a sentence or two about the guy, and I find it a little disturbing to start off with charges of plagiarism without actual proof.
Mikey
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Feb 26, 2003
It's just that the first entry posted to PR by this guy was plagiarised. And he *did* say he was going to do it again. So I just took him at his word. Predjudicial, maybe. Unfounded, not at all.
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sprout Posted Feb 26, 2003
It's that old cry wolf thing... When you try it on, you inevitably lose a bit of credibility.
Still, apart from those issues, it's a bit thin at the moment to say the least.
Sprout
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Peer Review: A912016 - David Moses OBE
- 1: Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle (Jan 2, 2003)
- 2: McKay The Disorganised (Jan 3, 2003)
- 3: Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle (Jan 3, 2003)
- 4: McKay The Disorganised (Jan 3, 2003)
- 5: Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle (Jan 6, 2003)
- 6: Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle (Jan 13, 2003)
- 7: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Jan 13, 2003)
- 8: Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle (Jan 13, 2003)
- 9: Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! (Feb 26, 2003)
- 10: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Feb 26, 2003)
- 11: sprout (Feb 26, 2003)
- 12: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Feb 26, 2003)
- 13: sprout (Feb 26, 2003)
- 14: Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 (Feb 26, 2003)
- 15: sprout (Feb 26, 2003)
- 16: Great Ceasers Ghost (Feb 26, 2003)
- 17: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Feb 26, 2003)
- 18: Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! (Feb 26, 2003)
- 19: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Feb 26, 2003)
- 20: sprout (Feb 26, 2003)
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