Re: Today

Shazam! No reason, it's just magic. So Traveling Ray
<travel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:59:57 +0100, Alan Hope <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>gekko goes:
>>
>>>Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood. Alan Hope <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx>, who posted in misc.writing on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:21:58 +0100 demonstrates this principle in this way:
>>>> Stan (the Man) goes:
>>
>>>> >Your gf Zen.
>>
>>>> Zen and I routinely smite each other harder than you've ever smitten,
>>>> or been besmote. He dare not put a foot wrong because he knows I'll be
>>>> down on him like a ton of smitation. We're hardly chums. You're
>>>> thinking with that typically binary American brain of yours:
>>>> everything is either black OR white; friend OR foe; good OR bad; with
>>>> us OR with the turrists. The reason Americans on the whole don't get
>>>> irony is because irony breaks down the dichotomy. It refutes dualistic
>>>> thinking.
>>
>>>> Besides, I don't honestly think Zen needs any help in kicking your
>>>> arse up the corridor and back down again. I should be most insulted
>>>> were the shoe on the other foot, geddit? Shoe, kicking?
>>
>>>> Good. Now *** off.
>>
>>>A gang***, Hopey, involves a gang giving it to someone.
>>
>>It requires common cause. Show where that was the case.
>
>Do explain why stomping Josh is a common cause while stomping Stan
>isn't.

At least Ray's idiocy is of a slightly different kind from Nancy's.
Nancy confuses ends with causes and Ray confuses actions with them

Ray, would I need to explain why sunburn is not caused by a common
cause to a burn from a cigarette?


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