> The Speaking Clock wrote:

>> On 9 Apr, 06:45, Joseph Littleshoes isp.com> wrote:

>>> The Speaking Clock wrote:

>>>> On 8 Apr, 20:03, Joseph Littleshoes wrote:

>>>>> The Speaking Clock wrote:
>>>>> They remind me of Henry IV's comment to the ambassador of Don Pedro: "Do
>>>>> you mean to say your master hasn't enough virtue to afford some faults?"
>>>>> but alas for their sake, i have lost any interest in even trying to
>>>>> explain it to them.
>>>>> --
>>>>> JL

>>>> Well - I know you don't exactly get on well with them at the moment.

>>> "At the moment?"

>

>>> !!!

>

>>> If were a matter of a moment i would be more sympathetic to your
>>> allusion. �And quite possibly to their null content verbiage. �As we are
>>> talking about years of NCV (Null Content Verbiage, not Non-CiVility) and
>>> a personal and oft repeated admittance on my part of their awareness of
>>> certain concepts and their ability to repeat other peoples thoughts as
>>> well as any editor of peoples thoughts might, i would of course be more
>>> sympathetic to your interest in them.

>

>>> But, IMO, they are all flash and show, and no real substance beyond
>>> those authors they are so fond of quoting in a "style" that might make
>>> the un - discerning think they are actually being original. �Ha!

>

>>> Have a nice day.
>>> --
>>> J (really! i sincerely mean it, have a nice day:) L

>

>> I friend of mine once tried to give his postman a christman bonus, and
>> was shocked when his postman told him to f*** off, then hurried away.
>> Years past and my friend always felt uncomfortable when he saw his
>> postman, and he avoided any further contact with him. Needless to say
>> that he did not volunteer another christmas bonus. He was puzzled by
>> his neighbours reaction to the rude postman though. He was outside
>> one day collecting his milk from the doorstep, when he noticed she had
>> opened the door to say hello to thier postman. "F*** off", he told
>> told with a smile. "No, you f*** off", she replied, also smiling.
>> "No, you f*** off", he reiterated, and from behind my friends hastily
>> shut door he listenened with incredulity to this mutual barrage of
>> swapped insults that was mingled with the sound of laughter. :) He
>> puzzled over it over his morning coffee but couldn't come to any
>> conclusion, except for a definate feeling of disgust and a certain
>> disapoinment for his usually civilized neighbour.

>

>> Then, to my friends delight his postman changed and as winter drew on
>> he gave the new postman a christman bonus, and volunteered to him how
>> delighted he was to see the back of the old chap. "Oh him?" the
>> postman replied, "He's alright actually. He just has Tourettes
>> syndrome."

>

>> Which neighbour would you have liked to be?

>
> Is there a text based version of that anecdote?
>
> Besides, how hard is it to explain a disability, fuck, you, i have, fuck
> you, touretts syndrome, fuck you and your whore son, shit stain crack
> mother, fuck you.
>
> "really, oh you poor soul...how awful that must be for you!....thank you
> for telling me other wise i might have thought you were just a jerk."
>
> But i will look it up i suppose the syndrome could extend to the written
> word and not be limited to speech, though if i remember my Boston Legal
> correctly, sufferers from touretts's syndrome can write quite normally.
>
> But hey, mon petit harlequine, thank you for making the effort. I
> almost wish i could excuse them, Tommy boi and Edwina, so easily as
> merely disabled. Unfortunately they are just the poster children of an
> internet phenomena i can only deplore, i understand the mechanism of the
> medium more than their conscious choice to assert themselves in their
> chosen style. The medium provides a 'soap box' they wouldn't be given
> in real life, allows them to express their angst in ways not generally
> considered to be socially acceptable, and from which i would make a
> guess that, this might be the only social life they have.
>
> Regrettable, but as in real life, one makes a choice, certain minimal
> standards of behavior are a kind of filter that i find useful in real
> life as well as here.
> --
> JL
>
> p.s. the whole touretts syndrome anecdote fails when it can be observed
> to do so, i.e. when osculating the particularistic fallacy of the
> previously mentioned derriers, they couldn't be nicer:)
>
> Have a nice day,
> joe