Re: Big Mig - honest, dishonest?

On 26 May 2007 14:09:11 -0700, "dustoyevsky@xxxxxxx" <dustoyevsky@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On May 26, 11:45 am, RonSonic <ronso...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Risible." From the Latin "ris" for laugh - the root word of ridicule and
derision.

Thank you. I knew, as soon as I popped "send", I would be called into
account for leaving the hyphen out, between ision and able.

Oh, it certainly was clear without a hyphen.

However, my intent in posting was not based on "laughter" but on
"laffer". Hidden protocols ("get me a positive reader"), personal
vendettas, bad rules, worse enforcement-- none of that is very funny.
Like having an apparent deep and real hatred for someone you've never
met; who, at worst, might only have been doing the same as everyone
else, if being more successful at it... because he saluted too
vigorously when he won some stupid bicycle race? (just guessing,
there) --D-y

Risible is good for that. While it just means laughable it doesn't mean funny as
much as that it should be laughed at as ridiculous and bordering on
contemptable. A sort of one snort laugh. You know like the guys who say you can
tell the dopers by either their super human consistency or by their super human
recovery from having a bad day.

Ron
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