Re: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

On Oct 2, 5:02 pm, David <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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SA and SHA are a different matter. My reputation with them is slowly
healing anyways. Thank God.

No, it is not.

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BTW, in another post you wrote:

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was
round."

Apparently you mean that you or Babs will be vindicated in the future.

However, perhaps you ought to know that educated folks in Columbus'
time knew the Earth was round. They disagreed with him (and some may
have laughed) because they thought his estimate of the diameter of the
round earth was ~1/4 or so too small.

They were right; Columbus was wrong.

Does this mean that Thiering will be shown to be wrong, too? :-)

That is certainly the way to bet.

.

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