[WikiEN-l] Hello world! (was "Hello world?")

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 January 2011 16:55, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>> That's what he said September 18, 2004.  So no, this wasn't an honest
>> mistake (which still would be reason not to trust what he says).  And
>> it wasn't even just Wales being misleading, as he so often does.  This
>> was an intentional lie.
>
> If he was intentionally lying, he must have had a motive. What motive
> could he possibly have for lying about his age by a day?

He was definitely intentionally lying, either in 2004 and 2010, or in
2007.  So there is no "if", and that means he must have had a motive.
However, I don't see the point in speculating over what that motive
was, as we don't even know for sure which of the times he was lying.

> Do you think he was just doing it to be annoying?

No.

> Jimmy has plenty of faults (we
> all do), but being annoying for the sake of it isn't one of them in my
> experience.

Not mine either.  So why do you bring it up?