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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 5 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Re: flatulence and humorless gits #56583 02/15/02 08:28 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York We're often confused! I just love it when Faldage uses the "mad" non-smiley (the only one he ever uses, if I may speak for him) as a joke. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: flatulence and humorless gits #56584 02/15/02 08:48 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park i just love it when faldage uses the imperial "we" as in We are not amused.. its so kind of you, anna, to make your home with a slightly befuddled man. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: flatulence and humorless gits #56585 02/15/02 09:00 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the imperial "we" as in We are not amused.. That was Dr. Bill and I who are often confused. And I am not *slightly befuddled! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: flatulence and humorless gits #56586 02/15/02 09:18 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 There, there Faldage, what are you and Dr. Bill confused about . It all seems pretty self evident to me...definitely a case of prolepsic paralipsis. (thanks Cara for the brilliant explanation) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: flatulence and humorless gits #56587 02/15/02 09:18 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage: I am constantly confused. I seldom merit comparison with you. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: flatulence and humorless gits #56588 02/15/02 09:38 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 laughing their asses off at the irony that the subject can't protest without admitting he's a deranged nutter for imagining such behaviour? mav, they may be "laughing their asses off", but they merely demonstrate that they lack sufficicent confidence in their argument to subject it to open debate. Howevermuch they enjoy thinking themselves clever, they in fact show the reader that they have nothing better to offer than rhetoric and adjectives. Hence their "subject" need not trouble to refute; res ipsa loquitur. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #56589 02/15/02 09:48 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Wonder what they'd charge me #56590 02/15/02 10:01 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >I do not think that t[h]is describes the man... max, thank you; I'd nearly forgotten that this discussion was in regards to a real person. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Wonder what they'd charge me #56591 02/15/02 10:09 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 I'd nearly forgotten that this discussion was in regards to a real person. or two Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Wonder what they'd charge me #56592 02/15/02 10:53 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 But I wonder what this guy's life is going to be like now. Will people around him think "ha, good for you James you sure suckered that big corporation," OR "our tax money is paying that a**h**e James." My money’s on the latter. Will strangers on the street call him an idiot or will they totally ignore him. 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