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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.


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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.




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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!


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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)


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Dear Faldage: I am constantly confused. I seldom merit comparison with you.


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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.

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>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.


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I'd nearly forgotten that this discussion was in regards to a real person.
or two



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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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