Just a brief Show Sleuth reply - I try not to ignore any post (either
replying privately or here), I'm polite like that :-)
 
>From:    Ron Carter <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: About Show Sleuth
 
Thanks, Ron - I like those that can agree to disagree yet respect what
others have to say.  I do feel that what I'm doing is a good thing, I'm
learning a lot about how others view shows and by doing so I think that
I'm helping coordinators to learn the same.  I'll never say that I can't
improve upon my reporting and will strive with each show that I attend to
give better and better (i.e., fair) reports.
 
I would like to know what Ruffled Anonymous thinks is NOT superficial -
he/she did not specify that.  If you would like me to post on something
"significant" then tell me what that is and I will report on it.
 
>From:    Mary Jane Frank <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Comments to show sleuth
 
On all of the points that you brought up, you misundertsood what I had
written...
 
Regarding the raffle, I DID see ferret related items, never said I didn't -
I just said that there were too many non-ferret related things.  But all I
had been saying was that I didn't care for the non-ferret items, and would
have liked to have seen more ferret related.  I think the misunderstanding
may have come because when i was posting in general about raffles and
non-ferret items, I was also speaking of Croydon and other shows that have
had non-ferret related items.  Sorry for the misunderstanding there!  Also,
since you were involved with the show, I have been posting that I would
feel differently about non-ferret related items if I knew that they were
making money (as much as ferret-related) for the clubs/shelters they
benefit.  That is really all I care about.  If non-ferret related raffles
made more than ferret-related, then I would be the first to say hold only
non-ferret related.  I care more about the money that the clubs and
shelters make than what I take home as prizes.
 
About the location of the show comment - I had to go back and read what I
wrote, and saw what the misunderstanding was.  The post about Chicago was
the one that I had written and then Yahoo deleted before it was sent.  My
problem with the location of the show was getting there the day before.
In my original post I had mentioned that there was a lot of talk the night
before at the hotel about the traffic, meaning on Friday.  I did not
specify that in the second report after the first was deleted.  Also, I
mentioned in the original post and left out of the second one that I have
had similar problems with getting to shows in Baltimore and New Carrolton.
These shows to me are also in "city" locations, moreso New Carrolton which
I don't think is a show location anymore, but Baltimore, too.  The show
itself is tucked in a, well, not rural but not metropolis area itself but
getting there requires the same as getting to Chicago.  Maybe I could have
taken a different route, I'm not good with maps :-)   With these shows I
don't have problems the day of the show but in the transit to these shows
from home.  And I hope that I did not make it seem as though I was saying
that it WAS a bad place for a show - it wasn't!  - I really was only
soliciting the opinions of others on where they do and don't like shows to
be held.
 
About the announcer - on this we do just have a difference of opinion.  I
did state that I was not the only one who was put off by the harshness at
the end of the show.  But of course I'm not privvy to the fact that you've
had problems in the past getting the public to get moving.  As for my
saying that the announcer wasn't harsh enough with the judges - that was
someone else's post, I remember reading it, but it wasn't mine.  Though,
the whip and chair could make for a memorable show! :-)
 
sorry for the misunderstandings, and yes, we can have differences of
opinion.  Please take what I say for what it's worth - just hoping to get
more people to fess up to what they like and don't about shows.  I wish you
the very best with next year's show and I did have a good time this year.
 
Murray Mustelid the Show Sleuth
[Posted in FML issue 2840]