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Assume that I reminded u that my IMPROVEMENTS in spelling
represent a calculated effort to drag society, kicking n screaming
into the 21st Century.*

* subtle reference to supremacy of Individuals
over their CHILD: society.

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@Letty,

Letty wrote:

"...the gift without the giver is bare.." Lowell.
This one is particularly good for this time of year, hinge.

Maybe sometimes.
It depends on how u look at it
and the objective value of the gift.

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bookmarking....these are great.

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@OmSigDAVID,

David, your nitpicking doesn't make the world advance.

Should I go into rebutting your points one by one, which I could easily do, I wouldn't convince your frozen mind of the soundness of that quote.

I do think that simple facts of life are far beyond the grasp of your close-mindedness..

As so, you can have the last word...

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@hingehead,

hingehead wrote:

Are you familiar with the term 'aphorism'?

Here's some definitions:
brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation.

"Life, don't talk to me about life."
Marvin the Paranoid Android

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i'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy
Drunk

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@Francis,

Francis wrote:

David, your nitpicking doesn't make the world advance.

Should I go into rebutting your points one by one, which I could easily do, I wouldn't convince your frozen mind of the soundness of that quote.

I do think that simple facts of life are far beyond the grasp of your close-mindedness..

As so, you can have the last word...

I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.

I have no interest in making the world ADVANCE (toward WHAT ?)

DAVID

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@djjd62,

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

Daniele Vare

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

Assume that I reminded u that my IMPROVEMENTS in spelling
represent a calculated effort to drag society, kicking n screaming
into the 21st Century.*

Your inference that spelling will improve society motivates me to once again point out your loose grip on reality.

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@djjd62,

Thanks Deej, for bringing in Douglas Adams, and, I think you'll find a more apropos quote, a la Tom Waits, is

"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.

And how pray tell are you doing that? By posting drivel on a bulletin board populated by a few hundred people? Clap. Clap. Clap.

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@wandeljw,

Living well is the best revenge.
--Sarah or Gerald Murphy (long-suffering and infallibly generous hosts of Fitzgerald and other difficult guests at their villa in southern France)

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@OmSigDAVID,

David,
Society of the 21st century is already kicking and screaming without your inflicting spelling improvements on them. Food and shelter first, then spelling games?

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@Miklos7,

Miklos7 wrote:

David,
Society of the 21st century is already kicking and screaming
without your inflicting spelling improvements on them.

Food and shelter first, then spelling games?

No: rejected.
U give them your food and your shelter.
I ll proceed to show better, more logical n easier ways to spell.

David

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@hingehead,

hingehead wrote:

Quote:
I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.

And how pray tell are you doing that?
By posting drivel on a bulletin board populated
by a few hundred people? Clap. Clap. Clap.

I said what I said in the ubiquitos context
that EVERYTHING we say is futile commentary
and that NOTHING that any of us posts has
any effect in the outside world.

Everyone ELSE knows that;
Y don t YOU know it ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

David that doesn't answer my question

Niggly Hinge wrote:

Dave of the loose grip wrote:
I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.

And how pray tell are you doing that? By posting drivel on a bulletin board populated by a few hundred people?

?

Rather than arguing a point not made as though you are a genius?

PS the mere fact that you pissfart about with font weights and colors solidifies my notion that you have too much time on your hands.

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Sorry I just realised Dave is getting me off topic.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
Alain, Propos sur la religion, 1938

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@hingehead,

SOCRATES: The unexamined life in not worth living.

MIKLOS: The unlived life is not worth examining.

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@Miklos7,

Leave it to me to desecrate Socrates with a stupid typo!
That's "IS not worth living."

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