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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 10 of 10 1 2 … 8 9 10 Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130993 08/14/04 12:08 AM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 Sometimes it's the job of a Fool to state the obvious. As you have just demonstrated, Faldage, with such charming innocence and ironic self-content, stating the obvious is not always the same thing as recognizing the obvious. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130994 08/14/04 11:02 AM Joined: May 2004 Posts: 89 A amemeba journeyman amemeba journeyman A Joined: May 2004 Posts: 89 Pray tell, Amemeba, what contemplative reveries could be more bovine than musing on something which is utterly empty-headed? Ah Ha! The Wordminstrel speaks of cows of a different kine! Cows and adolescents and beat poets don't speak in "words" they simply "Moo". Mooing, you see, serves them well in-as-much-as they have no need for sapient conversation. Their only need is to belong to the herd, or the coming generation, or the cognoscenti. A meaningless moo, properly mooed, will garner them membership in the desired in-group and the hip-group will answer back "Right-on", or "Cool" or "I herd that". But in great contrast, Wordminstrel, a few some of us aspire towards a much higher goal, namely, towards a more accurate understanding of the fundamental nature of words and their meanings. Through this understanding we hope to bring peace to all mankine. (or something like that.) Wanna join our happy group? Wanna stop being a word nerd who uses words like a knee-jerk robot that knows not well what the words mean? If you prove to have ears, Wordminstrel, I will be happy to share some of our dark word secrets. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130995 08/14/04 01:13 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 a few some of us aspire towards a much higher goal, namely, towards a more accurate understanding of the fundamental nature of words and their meanings. Whatever "few" you have in mind, Amemeba, it would be better for everyone, not to mention your cause, if there were even fewer of them. I fear the tinkers have mistook their tinking for thinking. As you yourself observed so insightfully, so recently [albeit more harshly than I myself would have put it]: "How does an ignorant person recognize a wise one?" How can a cow which can only "moo" recognize the music in a voice, the poetry in a pasture? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130996 08/14/04 01:39 PM Joined: May 2004 Posts: 89 A amemeba journeyman amemeba journeyman A Joined: May 2004 Posts: 89 Hot diggedy dog, Wordminstrel, you lose! You resorted to name calling without also addressing the proposition at hand. It is good to win but somehow I feel cheapened. Like a small town tinkerer who has failed to help out a fellow man. Edit Added: Darnit Wordminstrel, I think you added that last part about the poetry of a pasture after I replied. I think. Non-the-less your non sequitur serves as a allusion to the point so I apologize. Damnit. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130997 08/14/04 02:10 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 I think you added that last part about the poetry of a pasture after I replied. I think. Let us just say we are on the same wave-length after all, Amemeba. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130998 08/17/04 01:11 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 508 Metro Detroit (MI) N nancyk addict nancyk addict N Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 508 Metro Detroit (MI) Inasmuch as. Nonetheless. No hyphens. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No Left Turn Unstoned #130999 08/17/04 08:06 PM Joined: May 2004 Posts: 89 A amemeba journeyman amemeba journeyman A Joined: May 2004 Posts: 89 Ahbutyes, Nancyk, you digress. Who is the fool? Faldage? Wordminstrel? Other? _______________________________________________ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 10 of 10 1 2 … 8 9 10 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... 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