Re: Cooper wrong again
- From: "Father Ignatius" <FatherIgnatius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:53:04 +0200
R J Valentine wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:45:34 GMT Tony Cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
} On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:39:26 GMT, Bob Cunningham
} <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
}
}>Did not.
}
} Whoa! Do I detect a twinkle here?
I keep telling you the guy's got a sophisticated sense of humor (for a
Utavian). Let's say maybe ten years ago I contradicted him on
something,
and he deduces that I asserted in effect that I'm somehow impugning
his
veracity. So if years later he accuses me of calling him a liar and
I ask
him for an example, which I can't recall a single one of, what could
he do
but deduce that I'm somehow impugning his veracity after googling up
two
examples of someone ELSE calling him a liar, but nothing relevant
from me.
So, if years after that he accuses me of calling him a liar _twice_
(with
no mention of the number of times he's called other people liars and
called me deluded) and I ask him for an example, which I can't recall
a
single one of, you'd think that of all the expert googlers I've
annoyed by
my choice of a less inappropriate character of the ones offered as
standard by tin the flagbearer of newsreader programs than the one
[ObAUE] sheeplike used by the vast majority of posters for
block-quote indentation
to substitute for the [ObAUE] English-usage standard of three spaces
that incompetent programmers find hard to deal with <take a breath;
no comma>
ONE of them would have googled up ONE example just to help out poor,
old
Mr. Cunningham. So where people might think he's stuck between
actually
lying and himself deluding himself (IYCMD), could be he's only painted
himself into a corner [= PGE "shoe boxed himself into a corner"] aand
is wriggling out a window of humor. That's what I deduce: Sparky has
a great
sense of humor. So I of course forgive him for accusing me of
calling him
a liar. And I have pity for his apparent inability to put obvious
clues
together and come up with the obvious (to a select few) conclusion
that
his descendants are far more intelligent and capable than he seems
willing
to admit. It does remind me, though, that last night my wife and I
viewed
a "PBS Series" entry from 1996 of what appears to be a BBC Nature
selection of bird shows from 1995, one of which was "Parrots: Look
Who's Talking", which I picked up at the Delaware Museum of Natural
History not
far from here (of which I happen to be a "grandparent member"). So I
may
be deluding myself, but one of the parrots would seem to be the very
same
parrot from the URL provided (I think) by Old Phil, saying "square"
when a
square is held up in front of it. Anyhow, there were many examples of
parrots of various kinds saying what might be "defined" by some
linguists
as "rounded" vowels, so there's no doubt left in my military mind
that it
can be done. The advantage of the DVD was that it gives a hint as to
how
it is done, which I didn't observe with any depth, so this is just an
impression, barely a conjecture. They seemed at first glance to
articulate their beaks widely for "ee" sounds and not so widely for
the "oo" sounds, almost as if the beak were a vertical version of a
horizontal
human mouth, on top of the demonstrated very talented tongues of
parrots otherwise used for manipulating the seeds they eat.
But I digress. My point is that Mr. Cunningham seems to me to have a
great sense of humor. Better even than Young Kira's, though he may
not be
as smart as Young Kira.
*applause*
.
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