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- From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
- Subject: Re: Judith Martin is too (was: Wits and Half-Wits)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:45:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bzz289.JF5@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <Bzs03t.KKH@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <BzuIFF.3q7@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec28.021009.1208@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec28.021009.1208@netcom.com> tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox) writes:
- >In article <BzuIFF.3q7@NeoSoft.com> claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
- >>In article <Bzs03t.KKH@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- >>>hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu quoted Tom Maddox:
- >>>> I'm much more concerned with whether people are being interesting, witty,
- >>>> enlightening, provocative. In short, when it comes to public exchanges of
- >>>> the written word, I would hold up Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker as exemplars
- >>>> rather than Miss Manners.
- .
- .
- .
- > And maybe not. While your presciption for "great wit" is both
- >concise and superficially plausible, it is suitable more to some idealized
- >18th century drawing room than to a late 20th century computer newsgroup.
- >
- > And in any case, both Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde could be
- >discourteous when they felt the situation called for it. For instance,
- .
- .
- .
- I applaud the civility with which you
- have described our differences.
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- Cameron Laird
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