What a hoot! I was scrolling through old threads and immediately stumbled on this from 2018, which I hadn't seen before.
MTG declared me "an ignorant nutjob." There is simply no higher compliment than having MTG declare you an ignorant nut job.
Tim Nickerson quoted with a hee-hee-hee Smiley Face a challenge by Jim DiEugenio that I, a mere Ed Forum newbie, seemed to think I had "in just a matter of days and sixteen posts ... done what say Gil Jesus, David Josephs, John Armstrong, Martha Moyer and the later Ray Gallagher could not do in literally years of research, going back to the nineties."
Jimbo was talking about my discovery of the File Locator Number on the Klein's postal money order, which pretty much sealed the deal on its authenticity. He was quite wrong that I thought I had done this in a matter of days and 16 posts. It took me about an hour on Google. Up your pompous ass, Jimbo.
I'm kind of surprised that my 2018 Ed Forum post (quoted in John M's original post) holds up as well as it does. It's pretty much exactly what I would say today and is entirely consistent with my recent "focus on plausibility" post here. Not nearly as snarky as I would've expected.
It's kind of interesting to scroll through these old threads. I just started at page 208 and worked backwards from there.