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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: ethics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.071359.11741@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <1992Dec9.131435.5280@penet.fi: <1992Dec14.222310.29611@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1h8jbuINN5ql@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:13:59 GMT
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- In article <1h8jbuINN5ql@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> doug@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Douglas Newlands) writes:
- >:West is an LM <who> should know better
- >
- >What a quaint idea! Being an LM or GM just tells you that someone has played
- >bridge over a period of time; it guarantees nothing about their skills or
- >their ethics.
-
- Just to pick nits, but it seems to me that you (Doug) are assuming that
- the original poster intended to substitute the phrase "and thus" for the
- word <who> in the above included text.
- No such substitution was made, and thus none should be assumed.
-
- It is amazing what a difference that substitution or lack thereof makes
- to the meaning of the above phrase. It is very similar to the confusion
- caused by Rob Buchner's recent posting(s) about the practices currently
- in effect (so he claims) in our local Regionals. I must concede that
- his original post certainly made it sound like he supported the actions
- that he was, in fact, merely reporting. When it became clear that he
- was as confused as the rest of us by it, a lot of flamers ended up
- looking real stupid.
-
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- Emersons' Law of Contrariness:
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we
- can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
-
- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
- hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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