From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 02:40:22 MDT
On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 16:43:58 +1000, Damien Broderick
<damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> At 10:20 PM 6/2/03 -0700, MMB rewrote:
>
>> Just "what" are you "trying to infer", sir? I must utter a towering
>> infer-no.
>
> I never "try" to infer anything, I just go ahead and do it. I infer that
> you meant to write "imply".
Oops. In fact, I was trying to make clear fun of people who do that. That
was another intention of my scarequotes, I sweartagod. Sorry, that was a
clean communications miss and I regret it. Too arch by half. And it left
you with the no doubt surprsing impression that I *was* one of those poor
souls who do use the word that way obliviously (unconscionably?). :) OK, I
needed my meds adjusted at that moment, Your Honor, the joke was sub-JND
for one of the sharpest people I correspond with. Eeeps. :)
>> A conveersation is of course one that is likely to warrant a
>> breathalyzer test on all participants, and cause motion sickness in sane
>> passers-by, if present.
>
> Not a drop, your honor. Oops, I think I dropped it.
>
> Damien Broderick
Yes, given that I actually veered over the too-oblique line, let's both
drop it. :)
Your Horo-ably yours,
MMB
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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