World's Fish Are In Hot Water

"Willi" wrote in message
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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Tim J. wrote:

Skwala typed:

Must... resist.... this... vortex.....

too late, sucked in.


Hell, you're standing dead-center.


I'm gonna toss two cents into this and call it enough.
If you want to say that arguing on Usenet is retarded
that's one thing, but when you illustrate your argument
with the picture of a retarded human being in an attempt
to be "funny" you have crossed a line.


I agree with that assessment and calling someone a retard, idiot, or
moron fits somewhere in between the two.



Yeah, but varying degrees of 'in between'. Try to list these terms in order,
with 'retarded' (combined with a picture of someone with Downs Syndrome) at
one end of the spectrum, and something considerably less PI at the other
end...

retard
retarded
idiot
idiotic
moron
moronic
cockeyed
harebrained
numbskull
dumb
nitwit
fool
foolish
tomfool
simpleton
witless
ninny
chowderhead
****-for-brains
knucklehead
dolt
booby
imbecile


I think once you start looking at the etymology of insults, they all
primarily originate from people with brain dysfunctions. Pretty sad
commentary on our collective consciousness. However, over time I think the
association can fade, but to attach these words to a picture (or any other
reference) that underscores that connection is quite....well, pick a word.

--riverman

"Tim J." wrote in message
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Skwala typed:
"Tim J." wrote in message
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Kevin Vang typed:
In article ,
says...
Well, I think maybe Kevin's use of "unfortunate choice of word"

The least you could do is refer to the word I used. ;-)

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idiotic

NOW see how much digging it takes.

1.. Showing foolishness or stupidity.
2.. Exhibiting idiocy.
Yes, much like this thread and the one that started it...

As if idiotic wasn't an adjective from the noun Idiot.... Great
argument.

You're right, and it should have never gotten to this point. That you used
a poorly chosen example that I (and obviously others) found in poor taste
and that I used a poorly chosen word in rebuttle, doesn't change my
original point. Score one for Kevin. ;-)
--


Uh oh. Thats just a bit close to the boundary for me...

--riverman
(Another few words, and you'd owe us all an......uh....nevermind.)

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:53:57 -0600, Cyli
wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:42:10 -0800, "Skwala"
wrote:

(snipped)

Other than that, maybe I just wasted my time with a bunch of hypocritical
blowhards with nothing better to do with their time than bash strangers from
the safe distance of Usenet.

There, now. Some of knew you were bright enough to catch us in our
real personas.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)


Gah. An us between of and knew, please.

One of us ain't too damn smart today.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:53:57 -0600, Cyli
wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:42:10 -0800, "Skwala"
wrote:

(snipped)

Other than that, maybe I just wasted my time with a bunch of hypocritical
blowhards with nothing better to do with their time than bash strangers
from
the safe distance of Usenet.

There, now. Some of knew you were bright enough to catch us in our
real personas.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)


Gah. An us between of and knew, please.

Gah! Italicize or use single quotation marks around 'us', 'of' and 'knew',
please!


One of us ain't too damn smart today.

Make that two.

Cyli

--riverman, netnanny

wrote:

....IOW, any more
appeals to the 4th?

TC,
R

nah...as you've no doubt noticed, i'm now spending my time at the
shallow end of the pool.

jeff

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:22:51 -0500, Jeff Miller
wrote:

wrote:

...IOW, any more
appeals to the 4th?

TC,
R

nah...as you've no doubt noticed, i'm now spending my time at the
shallow end of the pool.

jeff

Now that's the kind of thing I don't understand...what's the point of
getting in the water if you're just gonna stand around...but then again,
I was surprised to see that the Ailto thread died in a single day...

TC,
R
....and besides, you know guys who knew ancient Greeks AND 14th century
uneducated feeble-minded fools...I'd have guessed that gassy old judges
would be like eatin' lettuce...

wrote:

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:22:51 -0500, Jeff Miller
wrote:


wrote:

...IOW, any more

appeals to the 4th?

TC,
R

nah...as you've no doubt noticed, i'm now spending my time at the
shallow end of the pool.

jeff


Now that's the kind of thing I don't understand...what's the point of
getting in the water if you're just gonna stand around...

who says i'm just standing around? ... i mean, beating up all those 12
year-olds and arguing with my fellow idiots and morons, even in shallow
water, isn't as easy as it used to be. of course, i am able to keep my
head above water most days.

jeff

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:09:54 +0800, "riverman"
wrote:


"Cyli" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:53:57 -0600, Cyli
wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:42:10 -0800, "Skwala"
wrote:

(snipped)

Other than that, maybe I just wasted my time with a bunch of hypocritical
blowhards with nothing better to do with their time than bash strangers
from
the safe distance of Usenet.

There, now. Some of knew you were bright enough to catch us in our
real personas.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)


Gah. An us between of and knew, please.

Gah! Italicize or use single quotation marks around 'us', 'of' and 'knew',
please!


One of us ain't too damn smart today.

Make that two.

Cyli

--riverman, netnanny


I figured the rest of you were either smart enough to insert them
mentally or weren't smart enough to have noticed the lack of the word
in the original.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:09:54 +0800, "riverman"
wrote:


"Cyli" wrote in message
. ..
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:53:57 -0600, Cyli
wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:42:10 -0800, "Skwala"
wrote:

There, now. Some of knew you were bright enough to catch us in our
real personas.

Gah. An us between of and knew, please.

Gah! Italicize or use single quotation marks around 'us', 'of' and 'knew',
please!

I figured the rest of you were either smart enough to insert them
mentally or weren't smart enough to have noticed the lack of the word
in the original.


Nice double jeapordy, but there's a strange thing about cognition that has
nothing to do with 'smarts'.

I read your comment first, and it seemed like a jumble of words with no
meaning. So I read the previous post, and sort of had a gist of what it
meant, and then reread yours, still not being able to comprehend it. Then I
re-reread the previous post and noticed that, under close inspection, I was
initially wrong and IT actually didn't make any sense either.

At that point (and I kid you not), I wondered if I had suffered some sort of
mild stroke and suddenly things that should make complete sense were
suddenly nonsensical. I almost called SWMBO over to read the lines to see if
they meant anything to her.

Then I worked through it slowly, and noticed that there seemed to be a word
missing in the first post, and I figured out that it must be 'us', between
'of' and 'knew'. THEN I read your post, and your meaning dawned on me. In
fact, I slowly lost any conception of how it did not make sense to me
before. Now it makes complete sense, but I find that I am inserting the
single quotes mentally.

Anyway, it was a strange experience for me for a bit, and probably not at
all unlike the experience you had reading the first post, eh?

Sort of reminded me of a time my older brother pointed to a lime tree when
we were kids and said 'see all the limes?" and I could not see a single one,
as they were the same shade of green as the leaves. He said "Keep looking,
once you see one, you'll see a million", and I stared and stared, with no
avail. Then he pointed one out to me, and the tree just erupted in
limes...they were EVERYWHERE! And after that, it was impossible to look and
NOT see them, but I sure remember staring and staring and not spotting any.

--riverman

PS: Ann while Bob had had had had had had had had had had had a better
effect on the teacher.

"riverman" wrote in message ...

...Anyway, it was a strange experience for me for a bit, and probably not
at all unlike the experience you had reading the first post, eh?

Sort of reminded me of a time my older brother pointed to a lime tree when
we were kids and said 'see all the limes?" and I could not see a single
one, as they were the same shade of green as the leaves. He said "Keep
looking, once you see one, you'll see a million", and I stared and stared,
with no avail. Then he pointed one out to me, and the tree just erupted in
limes...they were EVERYWHERE! And after that, it was impossible to look
and NOT see them, but I sure remember staring and staring and not spotting
any.

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http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

Wolfgang