Disagreeing, just to get a rise out of someone

Deb - As you can see hereafter, I'm not that good in English...

Anon-Voter wrote:

When are you French going to learn how to speak English. I don't know what most of those words mean.

So, if you could have the amability to explain me your post...

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What a pack of twits, why can't any of you argue rationally, as i do . . . it's a waste of my time lower myself to disagree with the likes of y'all . . .

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Is Francis doing that on purpose?

If so, ....that's pretty good.

If not, my sincere condoloscences.

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dyslexia wrote:

we had a cliche for lunch yesterday, it had veleeta and ketchup in it.

Dys, this is the most intelligent thing I've read in this whole thread.

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Francis wrote:

Deb - As you can see hereafter, I'm not that good in English...

Anon-Voter wrote:
When are you French going to learn how to speak English. I don't know what most of those words mean.

So, if you could have the amability to explain me your post...

Certainly I will have the amiability to explain my post....although given that the post following the "edulcorated" one was full of perfectly spelled and equally difficult words, I doubt you.

I wondered if "edulcorated" was what Lewis Carrol called a "portmanteau word"...ie one made up of several, and meaning a cross between them.

I considered as candidates for conscious blending into "edulcorated":

educated

indoctrinated

adulterated.

That would be a fairly packed portmanteau, no?

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Reyn wrote:

dyslexia wrote:
we had a cliche for lunch yesterday, it had veleeta and ketchup in it.

Dys, this is the most intelligent thing I've read in this whole thread.

Nonsense.

Only fools eat their cliche with ketchup.

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Francis wrote:

It's called intellectual masturbation...

A cliche at last !

However it cannot dent my good humor

Francis wrote:

I've now the perfect follower...

Are you certain of that? You have the sequence backwards but that does not surprise me.

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Georgeob1, I don't think I have had the pleasure, which is strange as I can't say that in many cases. Anyhoo, I know you Bay types probably view all us folks in the east as religious hillbilly republicans. Whereas we view u'all as pillow bitin ...
Therefore, I thought I would let you know I support your position.

"Take fortune, whatever you chose,
You gave and may snatch again.
I have nothing t'would pain me to lose,
For I own no more castles in France"

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Deb - are you pulling my leg or have I to suspend my vest on the portemanteau?

Your attempt to confuse our readers is pointless..(I could not have ever thought of such complicate tricks)

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I could.

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dlowan wrote:

Reyn wrote:
dyslexia wrote:
we had a cliche for lunch yesterday, it had veleeta and ketchup in it.

Dys, this is the most intelligent thing I've read in this whole thread.

Nonsense.

Only fools eat their cliche with ketchup.

I have this thing for fools. They're not controversial.

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Reyn wrote:

Dys, this is the most intelligent thing I've read in this whole thread.

This could apply to you:

Francis wrote:

I just can not stand your pityful attempts to be jocous.

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"I could."

Don't be so controversial, you are worse than Reyn. - You could what?

I'm eating mocha almond ice cream. Nice

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Try - can you read, (I mean, while eating ice cream)?

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Tryagain wrote:

Georgeob1, I don't think I have had the pleasure, which is strange as I can't say that in many cases. Anyhoo, I know you Bay types probably view all us folks in the east as religious hillbilly republicans. Whereas we view u'all as pillow bitin ...
Therefore, I thought I would let you know I support your position.

"Take fortune, whatever you chose,
You gave and may snatch again.
I have nothing t'would pain me to lose,
For I own no more castles in France"

Actually I live on both coasts, San Francisco and Washington DC, to which I will return tomorrow morning. Beneath the surface craziness, the Bay Area is quite conservative.

You are obviously playing with me with that corruption of a favorite poem by James Russel Lowell -- Aladdin

Here is the verse;

"When I was a beggarly boy,
And lived in a cellar damp,
I had not a friend nor a toy,
But I had Alladin's lamp;
When I could not sleep for the cold,
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded, with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain.

"Since then I have toiled day and night,
I have money and power, good store,
But I'd give all my lamps of silver bright
For the one that is mine no more;
Take, Fortune, whatever you choose;
You gave, and may snatch again:
I have nothing 't would pain me to lose,
For I own no more castles in Spain!

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Francis wrote:

Deb - are you pulling my leg or have I to suspend my vest on the portemanteau?

Your attempt to confuse our readers is pointless..(I could not have ever thought of such complicate tricks)

No I am not, and I disagree, yes you most certainly would.

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Setanta wrote:

What a pack of twits, why can't any of you argue rationally, as i do . . . it's a waste of my time lower myself to disagree with the likes of y'all . . .

Setanta is rarely so engaging and pleasant as when he deliberately tries to be disagreeable.

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Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote:

I could.

Nonense...it is manifestly clear even to the dimmest ocules that you could not.

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Damn, was it that obvious?

Ob1 may the force be with you. I love that poem.

Err..that's not right - make it the Police Force. However, I still love the poem.

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