My perfect 1 incher?

Yes, I think I got some help from you on that one (moving the pads closer to the top). As I recall, however, your advice was with reference to the Bib Hanger, where you suggested that I tighten the top screw and loosen the bottom ones. I don’t recall your suggesting I modify a Wench to achieve a similar effect. Am I wrong?

Actually, now that I’ve checked, my “small but significant” change was posted 1/17/06, whereas your post about Bib Hanger screw settings was much later, on 4/3/06.

Is it possible you got the idea from me ;) .

I wink because the reality is, as I’m sure you realize, that we all take ideas from one another. My point in the above response to Captn Hook wasn’t to claim ownership to any ideas. I’m not applying for a patent here. I was responding to what I perceived as a tone that he felt I had taken something away from him. I don’t believe I did. And, now that I’ve checked, I don’t believe I’ve taken anything away from you, either.

Oh wait. Here’s an earlier post in which you talk about opening the bottom screws of your BH. So maybe you were an influence.

But here I say I had already tried that idea. Are we getting rediculous yet?

It depends.

How attached to the idea of “getting credit” are any of the parties involved?

I’m willing to bet the Captn could give a fuck. From your above posts it’s clear (to me anyway) you are trying to clarify and give credit where it’s due, rather than demand respect.

Which most of us know is a losing proposition.

Glad you chimed in, Happy. I don’t give a frack who gets credit. I think I invented sex, for christ’s sake, even though when pressed I acknowledge that someone must have figured it out before me. I just thought the Captain sounded pissed at me and I needed to speak up.

I was referring to this PM, from 1-13-06, 4 days prior to your post about your “small but possibly important modification”

Seeing as how Modesto chewed me a new asshole on the basis of his perception of my offer of thanks to MX and Shiver for their contributions to the design of my training protocol not being adequate, and him not offering me ANY offer of thanks for my contribution to his “important modification” while I was trying to HELP him…I’m well justified in presenting the truth in this matter…that he brought up.

Fact is he’s done me worse wrong. I’ve mentioned them here and elsewhere (and have spared him the cold hard PMs to demonstrate it), thus making my conscience clear with respect to the truth…and thus have presented him the opportunity to make his so…I hope he takes it.

xeno

As far as I can see, you do deserve some credit. But it’s for the general idea of applying pressure to the dorsal surface of the tunica, either using the Bib or the OC. Regarding the Bib, I don’t think you were the first to have that idea. You can see from one of the posts I link to above that I had actually tried that idea before you mentioned it in connection with the Bib. Still, I do give you credit in this context because you emphasized the point and made me aware of it again. I don’t think you ever said anything about modifying a Wench, but I could be wrong.

Of course, as far as any of us know, Captn Hook had the idea first. I just don’t remember him ever posting about it.

Please be my guest if you want to start a new thread defending yourself against my claims that your IPR protocol was primarily a restatement of Shiver and MX’s earlier stated ideas. Address the matter directly there, rather than dropping suggestions here and there around the forum that I’ve done you wrong. If you make an honest and persuasive case that I’ve overlooked a considerable contribution, you will receive an apology from me.

By the way, posting PMs from others without their permission is at minimum bad form.

Frankly, I don’t think that any one deserves “credit” except Hook.

These Forums were founded at a time when PE was almost 100% DIY. I’m pretty sure we’ve all made changes to our “equipment”, and modified our hangers in some way.

If you’re really “hung up” on this “credit” thing, please feel free to start a “MM Did Me Dirty” thread (as MM has suggested), or better yet, why don’t you boys just go into the other room and work (PM) this out.

GM

I hope you’ll all understand that my assertion of “credit” (I didn’t actually use that word) was really a defensive reaction to feeling dissed by Captn Hook. I thought I had done something. Maybe not something big, but still something. Oh well. I’ve gotten over it.

Posting discoveries that others provided you with without crediting them for it is worse than bad form.

Shit xeno, you should write country music. You know, “hey, wontcha play, another ‘somebody done poor xeno wrong’ song….”, I think you would be a natural.