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From: Gus Richter on 20 Jul 2010 23:12 On 7/20/2010 7:37 PM, dorayme wrote: > In article<i241vd$li7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"<a.nony.mous(a)example.invalid> wrote: > >> dorayme wrote: >> >>> I suppose you will point out now that Wittgenstein once >>> sagaciously asked >> >> How odd is that? I haven't seen Ludwig's name in print for years and >> years and maybe decades, and now ... twice in just a few hours. In a >> novel I was reading last night, an older sibling suggests his parents >> name a new baby girl "Wittgenstein." Another character in the book is an >> ethicist. > > I think it would be an excellent name for a baby girl. > > It has been mentioned in this or ciwas or ciwa a few times. It > cropped up in one one remark by Korpela when he was explaining > the very useful idea of family resemblance and many times in > various exchanges between Ben C and me when we used to probe the > meaning of life (egged on by Gus). > The answer, of course, is 42. -- Gus
From: dorayme on 21 Jul 2010 01:59 In article <i25oio$8qi$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Gus Richter <gusrichter(a)netscape.net> wrote: > On 7/20/2010 7:37 PM, dorayme wrote: > > ...when we used to probe the > > meaning of life (egged on by Gus). > > > The answer, of course, is 42. <g> -- dorayme
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 21 Jul 2010 05:59 dorayme wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de> wrote: >> dorayme wrote: >> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de> wrote: >> >> Jeff Thies wrote: >> >> > There's a reason why I pinged Dorayme, she wasn't going to put me >> >> > through this. >> >> This is _not_ your customer support forum, nor is it the dorayme (or >> >> whoever or whatever) contact forum. If you want to contact dorayme >> >> (or whoever or whatever) and >> >> her/him/it alone, send her/him/it an e-mail. >> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ >> That is _not_ what I wrote. > > You deny it? It is there in green and white for all to see. Want > a screenshot from different angles? You have inserted "/it" twice, and you damn well know that. I would score you down for deliberate quote forgery if that was still possible. PointedEars -- Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are positively harmful for cross-browser scripting. -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk> (2004)
From: dorayme on 21 Jul 2010 08:53
In article <2267079.00ifERbkFS(a)PointedEars.de>, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de> wrote: .... > >> dorayme wrote: > >> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de> wrote: > >> >> Jeff Thies wrote: > >> >> > There's a reason why I pinged Dorayme, she wasn't going to put me > >> >> > through this. > >> >> This is _not_ your customer support forum, nor is it the dorayme (or > >> >> whoever or whatever) contact forum. If you want to contact dorayme > >> >> (or whoever or whatever) and > >> >> her/him/it alone, send her/him/it an e-mail. > >> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ > >> That is _not_ what I wrote. > > > > You deny it? It is there in green and white for all to see. Want > > a screenshot from different angles? > > You have inserted "/it" twice, and you damn well know that. I would score > you down for deliberate quote forgery if that was still possible. > Geez, what will you accuse me of next, inserting the "or whatever" twice too? I could take to this forward slash quoting idiosyncrasy of yours in a big way. It is so /cool! Just out of curiosity, why is it not possible to *score me* down? What is stopping you? In billiards or snooker, the reason might be that the slider has been super-glued by a prankster, or rusted or something. What gives in usenet? -- dorayme |