Will the real Famspear please stand up.

[Quixote]

Nationwide and Freeme were involved in an important discussion about what makes gasoline federally connected so as to make it subject to a federal excise tax. But they got sidetracked on the question as to which of them is really Famspear.

For those on pins and needles about the gasoline issue, Nationwide, in a separate thread, reveals that the federal connection that makes gasoline subject to the gasoline excise tax is the gasoline excise tax itself.

Post subject: Why is "Gasoline" Defined as Only Federally Connected?

Can you all see the false premise in that question?

The federal government grants a privilege taxed by the United States federal excise tax on gasoline. It can be found here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/4081

[Famspear]

Yeah, for Nationwide aka Libre aka Harvester aka johnthetaxist aka johnny cash aka whatever.... everyone is Famspear, just as everyone is Jay Adkisson, and just as Jay is Famspear, etc., etc.

I follow Harvester's postings intermittently at lost horizons and one or two other web sites and, bluntly, its hard to keep up with his paranoid delusions.



Poor Preposterous Pete. This is the kind of drivel his losthorizons forum is left with now....

[LPC]

Poor Preposterous Pete.

You're expressing sympathy for Hendrickson?

You're not really Famspear. Who are you?

And what have you done with the *real* Famspear?

[grixit]

Idiots! Gasoline is a highly processed industrial product. Its making and final composition are controlled by a ton of regulations. That's about as federally connected as you can get.

[Famspear]

Poor Preposterous Pete.

You're expressing sympathy for Hendrickson?

You're not really Famspear. Who are you?

And what have you done with the *real* Famspear?

If the real Famspear were a fake,
'twould be more than a fella could take!
Am I caught in a jam?
Am I not who I am?
I'm confused! I might jump in a lake!

[Famspear]

But wait!

If, as Harvester/Libre/Nationwide, etc., seems to think, everyone is Famspear, then there could be no fake Famspear.

Now I'm really confused.

[Burnaby49]

Poor Preposterous Pete.

You're expressing sympathy for Hendrickson?

You're not really Famspear. Who are you?

And what have you done with the *real* Famspear?

We all know where the "real" Famspear is. He's lurking in the Fortress of Solitude with the real Superman. They've split the crime fighting responsibilities. Superman goes after Lex Luthor, Famspear focuses on Hendrickson and Harvester.

[LPC]

But wait!

If, as Harvester/Libre/Nationwide, etc., seems to think, everyone is Famspear, then there could be no fake Famspear.

Now I'm really confused.

Me too. I can't decide if we're all Famspear, or none of us are Famspear.

Or perhaps, like Schroedinger's cat, both at the same time (i.e., quantum Famspear).

[Famspear]

But wait!

If, as Harvester/Libre/Nationwide, etc., seems to think, everyone is Famspear, then there could be no fake Famspear.

Now I'm really confused.

Me too. I can't decide if we're all Famspear, or none of us are Famspear.

Or perhaps, like Schroedinger's cat, both at the same time (i.e., quantum Famspear).

Ah, yes, and if I myself am found inside Schroedinger's closed box, perhaps I am both Famspear and Not Famspear -- until the moment when someone opens the box and looks inside, at which point I am either Famspear or Not Famspear, but not both.

Hey, you know, if hadn't already given up the practice of ingesting serious hallucinogens some forty plus years ago, that might almost sound profound to me.

[notorial dissent]

And how do you know you gave them up, and that this isn't just another in a long line of hallucinations????

[Famspear]

And how do you know you gave them up, and that this isn't just another in a long line of hallucinations????

Yikes!

[Lambkin]

Only a diabolical lunatic such as Famspear would argue with himself on Lost Horizons like this. I'm pretty sure the forum consists of Pete, Famspear, their sock puppets, and one other very dim guy.

[ArthurWankspittle]

"I'm Famspear"

[Duke2Earl]

I'm not worthy of being Famspear.

[Famspear]

My identity's causing confusion!
Oh, perhaps I have suffered contusion!
Now I'm caught in a jam;
I don't know who I am!
Someone help! Could this be an illusion?

[AndyK]

I was Famspear, but I gave it up for Lent.

[webhick]

I am Famspear's Complete Lack of Surprise.

[Pottapaug1938]

"To Tell The Quatloosian Truth", with your host David Merrill.

[wserra]

I think we're all Famspears on this board.

[Pottapaug1938]

EARL OF DOUGLAS

Another Famspear! they grow like Hydra's heads:
I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
That wear those colours on them: what art thou,
That counterfeit'st the person of Famspear?

FAMSPEAR

Famspear himself; who, Douglas, grieves at heart
So many of his shadows thou hast met
And not the very Famspear. I have two boys
Seek Percy and thyself about the field:
But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
I will assay thee: so, defend thyself.

EARL OF DOUGLAS
I fear thou art another counterfeit;
And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like Famspear:
But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
And thus I win thee.

-- as Shakespeare rolls over in his grave at this parody of Henry IV, Part 1 (Act V, Scene IV)