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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.200546.23790@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1993Jan9.012901.28461@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <726746966snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:05:46 GMT
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- In article <726746966snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
- > > >Let's see what sort of momentum can now be maintained . . .
- > > Except you forgot something.
- > > What about the argument that you bolstered with the bad etymology? Do you
- > > now admit your position is weaker than you had thought, since one of the
- > > pieces of evidence for it is bogus?
- >No, I have not forgotten anything. My position has been clearly (and
- >repeatedly) stated as seeking to bolster the level of discussion here,
- >within the wider context of a persistently polarised, petty, sniping,
- >zero-sum type of game among the American contingent here.
-
- Sidetracking the discussion by presenting fake evidence does not bolster the
- level of discussion.
-
- >Throwing a real howler periodically into a thread (whose author had in
- >fact begun to explain himself as it all appeared to get out of hand)
- >with which I had no previous involvement at all, is quite a legitimate
- >device. Indeed it got you all sitting up suddenly worrying about it.
-
- Ah. "Oh, I didn't _really_ believe it. I _meant_ to do it." Suuuuuure.
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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