Re: Quotation marks, comma

Amethyst Deceiver <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:15:14 +0000, Chuck Riggs <chriggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:31:38 +0000, James Hogg
<Jas.HoggOUT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just back from a dive in the archives, I can see that
there may be plenty of opportunities for what Chuck
calls "time-wasting drivel".

You're right. I've got a little list.
Now that Jerry has mentioned it, the Summer Doldrums Competition is a
surer way for someone to waste his precious time, when time is so
short, than fiddling around with puns, solving Rubik's Cube or playing
Sudoku. Rather than taking up trivial pursuits, why not write The
Great Novel, help solve the global warming problem, paint a friend's
portrait or, at least, read a good book?

Because we don't want to. If they waste your valuable time, kill the
threads.

It's quite hard to come up with successful criteria for determining whether one's time is being wasted or not. In some ways it's easier to accuse others of wasting their time, if they are doing nothing towards a common good. But they may well be doing something towards their own good as they see it, and who is to condemn them for that?

On the whole, I think time is better spent living than not living. Playing games is one way of living. Children get the idea at an early age, and I feel rather sorry for those who grow out of it.

I wonder how a cicada would answer if accused of wasting his time underground for seventeen years just hanging about for one day's orgy before dying of sexual exhaustion.
--
Paul
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