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]