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Bravo, Max! Although I've only lately registered, I've browsed AWADtalk for months and the change in the tenor of the posts is a little disturbing. One of the things I've enjoyed has been the general good-spirited apparent camaraderie among the posters. Stridency is not my thing, so let's all shake hands and begin again! (And, no, my real name is NOT Polyanna)
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good show, max. I'd just add one thing: remember back around election time in the U.S. when politics last reared its ugly head 'round here? we stomped that puppy flat. I'm thinkin' we should have remained vigilant....
who knows what evil lurks therein?
(the shadow do!)
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when politics last reared its ugly head 'round here? we stomped that puppy flat. I'm thinkin' we should have remained vigilant....okay, just so i have this straight: We've ruled out religion and politics.... so we're left to argue about what, specifically? 
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so we're left to argue about what, specifically? Of prescriptivism vs. descriptivism, Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings.' That should do for starters. 
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... and whether 42 in fact was the correct answer, and whether CapK should carry on abusing ellipsis now he that knows how to spell it [ellipsis] that should do for starters!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Must I be the first to throw down my glove?
Well, OK. If I must.
Cabbages are the best (unless rendered unrecognizable by sauerkrauting), but sealing wax sucks.
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Without meaning to pick on my dear friend Fiberbabe, the word "sucks" is one I dislike very much. It seems quite likely that it originated in an activity that is not party talk.I am almost surprised the gay community has not managed to make its use as a pejorative non PC.
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> Without meaning to pick on my dear friend Fiberbabe...No picking taken! I actually thought for a moment as I wrote the word, "Hmmm... probably not indicative of my most sparkly vocabulary, particularly in such gentle company. Oh well." [Send] I apologize if I did offend. Let's just say I find sealing wax despicable, for the sake of causing a stir...
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One more question : is the Louisiana law based on the Napoleonic Code ?
Yes, Ma'am. Exactly. And I, for one, have never done a dot of research on Louisiana law, and have no idea how near or far it might be from English common law. Scribbler? Father Steve?
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Yes-- again- I got "extra credit" in an accounting class for knowing that-- the GAAP--(General Agreed Accounting Practices--i think) does not apply in Louisiana either.
It effects inhertence-- in Napolionic code, the first son inherts-- not the wife, and if there are only daughters, the daughters husbands have control of the money (think of the scene from "Streetcar named Desire" when Stanely tell his sister in law -- he know the law! ) there are some other changes in stock, bonds, shares and investments. Our class didn't cover how it was different--and we were taught gaap rules-- and the louisiana didn't use them!
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