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#136548 12/28/04 09:35 PM
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i did not mean to offend, that's just always been my signature... should i remove it?

puto te esse stultum

#136549 12/28/04 11:12 PM
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Personally, I don't know latin so I don't find it offensive for the words I'm looking at... and even the repetition seems to be less of an issue (for me, anyway) because of this...

...but think of it this way:

Try adding it at the end of every sentence/paragraph/time you speak in a conversation one day, and you'll get the effect I'm thinking alot of us do.

BTW - Welcome to our chaos, bluefruitbowl! Is the fruit blue or is the bowl blue?


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I take it all y'all saw the article referenced in AWADmail?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-adfg-polyglot19dec19,0,630421.story


#136551 12/29/04 11:44 AM
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Is the fruit blue or is the bowl blue?

It depends on your point of hue, musick.

BTW you are a scholar and a gentleman -- and a diplomat worthy of emulation, as well. :)


#136552 12/29/04 07:16 PM
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>do you wonder why he isn't around? ~ from Helen

A reminder might be in order, Plutarchi:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=138598

You drove him away. As you did a couple of other non-"Carpals."


#136553 12/29/04 07:55 PM
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You drove him away. As you did a couple of other non-"Carpals."

Well, at least I haven't driven you away, ASp. At least, I can take comfort in that.




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A Usenet acronym I almost never feel inclined to use, but the Plutarchi (in all their legion avatars) are a very worthy candidate for it.


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the Plutarchi (in all their legion avatars) are a very worthy candidate for it

Methinks, my friends, you do conspire
To forge my virtue in this fire.




#136556 12/30/04 03:25 AM
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insane. he must be insane.

first off, he thinks we are his friends..
coupled with his ever present conspiracy theories --

you know scenario, he pisses people off one by one, two by two, over and over again. and when they, one by one, and two by two begin to dislike him, and finally come to loath him, its all a conspiracy against him--he is (in what's left of his mind) total blameless. He is so sure of this; he repeated attempts to bully us into being his friend. when we don't fall over, fawning him for a single pleasant word, WE are wrong.

--Ever see the mock office memo telling every one "the beating will continue till the morale improves"? -- he is so sure bullying will work he promises us more of it! --and tries to pretend its a virtue.

but he has the capacity to surprise me yet..

i surprised he didn't claim jheem can post or not post.. (and it has nothing to do with him... ) but WE CARPAL--we somehow posses the power to drive unnamed legions of posters from AWAD (include our ever present attempts to drive him away) --of course there is no evidence of this, but hey, why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory?

Testament to this is, we generally ignoring his public insanity couple with general idiocy, and profoundly juvenile behavior--BUT DO NOT publicly and privately pleading with jackie to ban him in all his guises.

i suppose milo is right, and we should be kind the infirm.. (can't we confine him to an infirmery instead?)




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Thanks, helen. I always feel unclean after allowing myself to react to his baseness. Time to hose myself off and retreat into the safety of watching his venality without further comment.


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