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Date: 04 Sep 2006 08:17:05
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Something to remember...
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After picking up a bit of a rep on this list for my acerbic tongue, and
after offending Ken terribly by mentioning my male partner, I've been
making a conscious effort to reform myself; to become the kinder,
gentler Omniryx. Well...with the possible exception of poor, hapless
Larry-who-thinks-we-are-all-fanatics.
Anyway, my resolution arose from the sig line of an aquaintance on an
audio list. It says, quite politically incorrectly,
"I don't fight on the internet. Fighting on the internet is like
competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still
retarded."
Something (at least for me) to think about.
Will
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 09:37:35
From: Cordovero
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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You just figured this out?
C
> Anyway, my resolution arose from the sig line of an aquaintance on an
> audio list. It says, quite politically incorrectly,
>
> "I don't fight on the internet. Fighting on the internet is like
> competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still
> retarded."
>
> Something (at least for me) to think about.
>
> Will
>
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 19:37:09
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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Heat + Beans wrote:
> Of course, this was done, ostensibly, as a reaction to overly-fussy
> nit-pickers who tried to control others' expression by getting people
> to use words like "African American," "gay," "disabled" and so on
> instead of the more common parlance.
I vaguely recall Jonathan Swift taking up similar aims against
proponents of the times, bitting, decisive wit being attributed, I'll
hazard, as particularly proper to an Englishman's purveyance;--
Wherewithal and remarkedly in contrast from what first be conceived
sardonic humor, somewhere alongside a French Court of the Dolphin
King;-- Together, for manners scathingly amusing and derisively
diminutive to arrive by hallmarks of civilized attainment and accademic
crowns. Even for such a satirist as "Bickerstaff" Swift, no less
inured in having practised it lifelong, to manage one longlast trill
by way of will and testament [by and such, etc. & etc., vestige funds
be aroundabouts Dublin spent for a hospital to -F]. . . "ideots &
lunaticks" because "No Nation wanted [needed] it so much."
-Beauty, rosebuds chance prick, is no less by measure and pain, any
blossum fully-bloomed is permitted to exact.
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Date: 05 Sep 2006 18:55:51
From: Natalie Drest
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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"Flasherly" <gjerrell@ij.net > wrote in message
news:1157423829.704463.263930@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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> I vaguely recall Jonathan Swift... (snip)...to manage one longlast trill
> by way of will and testament [by and such, etc. & etc., vestige funds
> be aroundabouts Dublin spent for a hospital to -F]. . . "ideots &
> lunaticks" because "No Nation wanted [needed] it so much."
>
Thanks for that Flasherly, that is truly hilarious- if a little politically
incorrect!
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 17:16:35
From: Heat + Beans
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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Omniryx@gmail.com wrote:
. Even if you win, you're still
> retarded."
> Will
I can recall when "political correctness" meant what it said, sans
irony. "Political," in the sense of power relationships, and
"correctness" in the sense of civility (as mentioned here). Suddenly
(so it seemed) members of more powerful groups (white people, straight
people, males, etc) stripped "political correctness" of its civil
component and turned the expression into an umbrella that covered and
permitted all manner of rude and offensive language.
Of course, this was done, ostensibly, as a reaction to overly-fussy
nit-pickers who tried to control others' expression by getting people
to use words like "African American," "gay," "disabled" and so on
instead of the more common parlance.
So with that very personal perspective, I'm willing to risk some
political correctness and express my dislike for any speech/joke that
references "retarded," whatever the context and in spite of the
perfectly obvious good will of the speaker.
Martin
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 21:05:16
From: Steve Ackman
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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In <1157415395.815823.299580@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com >, on 4 Sep 2006
17:16:35 -0700, Heat + Beans wrote:
> So with that very personal perspective, I'm willing to risk some
> political correctness and express my dislike for any speech/joke that
> references "retarded," whatever the context and in spite of the
> perfectly obvious good will of the speaker.
My engine was pinging on that 86 ane gasoline,
so I retarded the ignition timing.
You would say that how?
;-)
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 21:41:30
From: Randy G.
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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Steve Ackman <steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com > wrote:
>In <1157415395.815823.299580@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, on 4 Sep 2006
>17:16:35 -0700, Heat + Beans wrote:
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>> So with that very personal perspective, I'm willing to risk some
>> political correctness and express my dislike for any speech/joke that
>> references "retarded," whatever the context and in spite of the
>> perfectly obvious good will of the speaker.
>
> My engine was pinging on that 86 ane gasoline,
>so I retarded the ignition timing.
>
> You would say that how?
>
I set the timing to advance challenged.
I advanced the timing so far it wasn't any more.
The timing is now more advancedless.
I de-advanced (or in the North, un-advanced) it three degrees.
This thread is as funny as a limb-challenged person in a defecation
kicking contest where "everyone is a winner" because all contestants
are equal regardless of race, creed, color, religion, or nation or
origin.
Randy "and I mean that in a good way" G.
http://www.EspressoMyEspresso.com
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 19:59:24
From: Ken Fox
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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"Steve Ackman" <steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com > wrote in message
news:slrnefpjao.kv1.steve@wizard.dyndns.org...
> In <1157415395.815823.299580@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, on 4 Sep 2006
> 17:16:35 -0700, Heat + Beans wrote:
>
>> So with that very personal perspective, I'm willing to risk some
>> political correctness and express my dislike for any speech/joke that
>> references "retarded," whatever the context and in spite of the
>> perfectly obvious good will of the speaker.
>
> My engine was pinging on that 86 ane gasoline,
> so I retarded the ignition timing.
>
> You would say that how?
>
> ;-)
you developmentally disabled it
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 13:13:52
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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Cordovero wrote:
> You just figured this out?
Let us say that I just paused to contemplate it.
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Date: 04 Sep 2006 14:07:44
From: Cordovero
Subject: Re: Something to remember...
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<Omniryx@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:1157400832.431422.134240@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
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> Cordovero wrote:
>> You just figured this out?
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> Let us say that I just paused to contemplate it.
I don't like the analogy, but I appreciate the sentiment. Civility is
sorely lacking all over, but on the newsgroups in particular.
C
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