What's nice about Wikipedia is that noone *can* rip pages out of the books. They can put salt in the sugar dispenser. ______________________________________________
Actually, *anyone* can rip out a page. Then the library staff have to (A) detect and (B) revert the rip.
And I don't want salt in sugar dispenser when I'm preparing cafe au lait.
Why are you so cantankerous? You, you -- you CURMUDGEON!
Eddie Spaghetti <------ in a saucy mood
Ed Poor wrote:
Why are you so cantankerous? You, you -- you CURMUDGEON!
Comparing our personalities: Is Ed calling somebody "curmudgeon" equivalent to me calling somebody "asshole"? Remember, it's all relative to what we normally say. ^_^
-- Toby
|From: Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu |Content-Disposition: inline |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:02:37 -0800 | |Ed Poor wrote: | |>Why are you so cantankerous? You, you -- you CURMUDGEON! | |Comparing our personalities: |Is Ed calling somebody "curmudgeon" |equivalent to me calling somebody "asshole"? |Remember, it's all relative to what we normally say. |^_^ | | |-- Toby
No, it's relative to civility and incivility; "darn" is not as offensive as "damn" no matter who says it.
Tom P. O88
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:05:44PM -0500, Tom Parmenter wrote:
No, it's relative to civility and incivility; "darn" is not as offensive as "damn" no matter who says it.
That's because you've never heard an elderly Englishman swear. My grandpa could turn the most innocuous of words into the deadliest and most insulting of swears entirely by the tone of his voice
Jonathan.
Tom Parmenter wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
Ed Poor wrote:
Why are you so cantankerous? You, you -- you CURMUDGEON!
Comparing our personalities: Is Ed calling somebody "curmudgeon" equivalent to me calling somebody "asshole"? Remember, it's all relative to what we normally say. ^_^
No, it's relative to civility and incivility; "darn" is not as offensive as "damn" no matter who says it.
That's not what I was referring to. I meant the equivalent in terms of the speaker's internal thoughts.
-- Toby
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:21, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
What's nice about Wikipedia is that noone *can* rip pages out of the books. They can put salt in the sugar dispenser. ______________________________________________
Actually, *anyone* can rip out a page. Then the library staff have to (A) detect and (B) revert the rip.
A better analogy (since torn pages are not perfectly reversible) is that people can go in and insert their own books on the shelves, as well as stick their own propaganda and pamphlets into the books--most of the time the additions are valuable, but sometimes they're juvenile pornography, or inflammatory tracts, etc.
And in this library everybody is staff.
And I don't want salt in sugar dispenser when I'm preparing cafe au lait.
Certainly.
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