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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:25:26 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
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- Ruth reflects:
-
- >The only thing worse than a bore, is another bore commenting on how bad the
- >first one was. Please keep your inane prattlings on the subject to yourself.
- ><so there><ptttttttbp>
-
- Actually, in this respect you're no more of a bore than a lot of
- other people. I seem to recall an exchange some time ago about
- wonderfully witty insults. But you do seem to specialize in the use of
- expressions like "<evil smile>" and "<evil grin>", a use that I don't
- find boring but peculiarly irritating after a while. I mean, you might
- as well go on to write "<devastatingly witty comment>" or "<profound
- philosophical insight>" in lieu of those supposed comments or insights
- themselves. The impressions I, as a reader, get of your face and your
- intentions and the state of your mind as you write are not determined
- by these silly stage directions.
-