Re: Why the heck did I wait so long to try this?

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:23:10 -0800, "Bob Terwilliger"
<virtualgoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Damsel wrote:

Okay, we have now identified the sound that I make when I read one of
your posts, Bob. It's a blood-curdling scream, followed by
gust-busting laughter.

Oh, my. What WILL the neighbors think?

The guy downstairs is used to weird sounds coming from up here. I'm
sure he doesn't think a thing of it. :D

Carol, trying to figure the French thing out

It all goes back to René Descartes: He was the French philosopher who made
his most famous philosophical statement ("Cogito ergo sum") in Latin. The
statement translates as, "I think, therefore I am." Descartes had set out to
come up with a statement which could not possibly be doubted: You can have
ironclad certainty in your own existence, because if you doubt your
existence, then something must be doing the doubting, which means that you
are that something.

Why did Descartes express his statement in Latin? Because Descartes was
French, of course. And he was a THINKER. He was a FRENCH THINKER.

Therefore, sf is not French.

Oh, my ........

Carol

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