I think the latter half of what you're describing there, yes.
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That's mostly wrong. Lockwood first appeared in season 1's "Eyewitness to Murder" as an assassin, Hopper, whom Steve captured alive. Season 2's finale "Steve Austin, Fugitive" brought back Lockwood as someone that we were supposed to think was Hopper (and who framed Steve for murder, hence the "Fugitive" part), but it turned out to be the identical twin brother (and alibi-providing accomplice) of the assassin, who had died in prison between episodes. He was also taken alive, though probably with a broken jaw from a bionic punch.
I won't debate the content of the episode, I haven't seen it since it originally aired. Admittedly, TSMDM is a series I want on home video, I just don't have it. That said, you couldn't resist, could you? Telling me I'm wrong, that is.
I just remember one of the twins had a large birthmark or mole on his cheek, and that was how Steve Austin could tell them apart in the episode which both characters appeared, and how he figured out he was dealing with the twin in the second appearance.
I said "That's mostly wrong," not "You're wrong," because I was talking only about the information, not the person. It's not a personal failing to misremember something; it's just a lack of information that can be easily remedied. I wasn't judging you for being wrong, I was trying to help you become right.
"Wrong" is not a dirty word. Being wrong is something that happens to all of us all the time, just a step along the way toward getting it right. Me, I get things wrong constantly, which is why I'm obsessive about looking things up and finding out what's right.
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Although "wrong" is colloquially used as a synonym for incorrect it often feels more harsh because its meanings include moral issues and comments on personal behavior (e.g. "that was the wrong thing to say to your father" has a note of disapproval). As such, "that's not correct" comes across as slightly more friendly than "That's wrong". It's perhaps a subtle distinction but it's there.
The Hopper twins appeared in two episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man! The second was the final episode of the second season and the first to show Oscar's secretary Callahan! 
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Having grown up as the school target, it's easy for me to get defensive even when it only seems like I'm being attacked personally. The fact that so many here respond to my posts in ways that sound to me like they think I have the memory of a goldfish, when I don't surround myself with reference materials before coming here and rely on my memory for my information, and am correct more often than not, does seem to me like an attack. I will try to be more open-minded in the future.
I was the school target too, which is why I always try to direct my comments only toward the information or ideas expressed, not the people expressing them. I'm sorry I chose my words poorly this time.
Star Trek or Doctor Who were not subjects for banter in the school yard when I was a kid either!
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Plenty of us were targets or target adjacent. Some of us still are.
Written language online is a tricky thing because the same words whose meaning is perfectly clear due to tone and delivery in person doesn't necessarily read the same way. I'm much more careful in my phrasing here than I am in conversation because of that. Words which are innocuous when spoken often seem harsh when typed.
Correcting people online is especially fraught, because—"post not poster" aside—it's easy to take such criticism as one-upping pedantic gainsaying even if that's not at all what the author intended. This is why—sucessfully or not—I frequently try to write things in "playful" language so it's clear I'm just trying to be factual instead of showing off that I'm the Smartest Guy In the Room, which I frequently ain't. Smartest Gay in the room is another matter entirely.
See what I did there?
Written language online is a tricky thing because the same words whose meaning is perfectly clear due to tone and delivery in person doesn't necessarily read the same way. I'm much more careful in my phrasing here than I am in conversation because of that. Words which are innocuous when spoken often seem harsh when typed.
Correcting people online is especially fraught, because—"post not poster" aside—it's easy to take such criticism as one-upping pedantic gainsaying even if that's not at all what the author intended. This is why—sucessfully or not—I frequently try to write things in "playful" language so it's clear I'm just trying to be factual instead of showing off that I'm the Smartest Guy In the Room, which I frequently ain't. Smartest Gay in the room is another matter entirely.
See what I did there?
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I kind of lost it on a facebook post recently, when a poster asked a question in a group, and in one short sentence had three bad misspellings, no punctuation, and two ridiculous grammar errors. I went all "Can't anyone type ONE sentence without multiple errors on the internet?"
Yeah, the barrage of grammar-nazi posts and insults was crazy.
But, if you you're going to communicate in the written medium, you should at least TRY to do it well.
Yeah, the barrage of grammar-nazi posts and insults was crazy.
But, if you you're going to communicate in the written medium, you should at least TRY to do it well.
It can be a good reason, but it shouldn't really be an excuse.
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That's a point - if we're all a little damaged, we should know how to interact taking that into account.
You're a good reason for a lot of things, but getting in a fight on the internet is not one I've seen before.
D'oh! Typo. Fixed. Mea culpa.You're a good reason for a lot of things, but getting in a fight on the internet is not one I've seen before.
DeForest Kelly in one of his villainous turns as a gunslinger out for revenge against Robert Culp in this morning's episode of Trackdown.
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