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Ilíon wrote:
Do you expect Homer in response to Simpson?
From you? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: No, never.
Bob Emmett
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Oakman wrote:
Ilíon: The point is your head. Have It Both Ways: Robert Bloch (SF Writer, best known for the script of Psycho) said it way better: "I see your point; I saw it as soon as you took off your hat."
If I had said, "How can I not graciously concede your point? -- now that you've so kindly removed your hat." you'd be trying to fault me for being too derivative. Nevertheless, I like what I've just derived; I hope I can remember it the next time it's appropriate. I know *you'll* be using it. Won't you?
Can't have it any way at all wrote:
I know *you'll* be using it. Won't you?
Hell no, I already stole the line from Bloch and used it without trying to better it. I certainly would not use yours, it's gramatically awkward and lacking in oompf.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
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Can't have it any way at all wrote:
I know *you'll* be using it. Won't you?
Hell no, I already stole the line from Bloch and used it without trying to better it. I certainly would not use yours, it's gramatically awkward and lacking in oompf.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
Oakman wrote:
I certainly would not use yours, it's gramatically awkward and lacking in oompf.
It is not gramatically awkward. It's a stiletto (and it's multi-layered, which is something I like -- it's far more humorous than the original); one isn't required to use a mace at all times.
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"Sing, O goddess, the reedy wrath of reedy-thewed Bob, son of P'lese, that brought countless ills upon the b'Achaeans."
Ilíon wrote:
"Sing, O goddess,...Achaeans.
The first line of the Iliad, with modifications:- "reedy wrath" was pathetic - something like "impotent wrath" would have been better (an additional level, a hint of my waning sexual potency?); "reedy-thewed Bob" was better, but the repetition of reedy shows a paucity of imagination._
Ilíon wrote:
Do you expect Homer in response to Simpson?
From you? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: No, never._ Sheesh, try to think, here! It is self-evident there was no implication that you could not quote Homer, it was you who introduced him. But let it pass, let it pass.
Bob Emmett
modified on Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:40 PM
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Ilíon wrote:
"Sing, O goddess,...Achaeans.
The first line of the Iliad, with modifications:- "reedy wrath" was pathetic - something like "impotent wrath" would have been better (an additional level, a hint of my waning sexual potency?); "reedy-thewed Bob" was better, but the repetition of reedy shows a paucity of imagination._
Ilíon wrote:
Do you expect Homer in response to Simpson?
From you? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: No, never._ Sheesh, try to think, here! It is self-evident there was no implication that you could not quote Homer, it was you who introduced him. But let it pass, let it pass.
Bob Emmett
modified on Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:40 PM
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Oakman wrote:
I certainly would not use yours, it's gramatically awkward and lacking in oompf.
It is not gramatically awkward. It's a stiletto (and it's multi-layered, which is something I like -- it's far more humorous than the original); one isn't required to use a mace at all times.
Ilíon wrote:
It is not gramatically awkward.
Yes, I see your point
Ilíon wrote:
It's a stiletto
Yes, I see your point.
Ilíon wrote:
it's far more humorous than the original
Yes, I see your point. Oh, I think you dropped your hat.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
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Ilíon wrote:
It is not gramatically awkward.
Yes, I see your point
Ilíon wrote:
It's a stiletto
Yes, I see your point.
Ilíon wrote:
it's far more humorous than the original
Yes, I see your point. Oh, I think you dropped your hat.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
Oakman wrote:
Ilíon: It is not gramatically awkward. Oakman: Yes, I see your point
Do you now? If you look closely, you'll see that you're missing yours. :-D
Oakman wrote:
Oh, I think you dropped your hat.
I'm on to that old trick. I look at the floor to find my hat and you try to steal my point while I'm distracted.
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Oakman wrote:
Ilíon: It is not gramatically awkward. Oakman: Yes, I see your point
Do you now? If you look closely, you'll see that you're missing yours. :-D
Oakman wrote:
Oh, I think you dropped your hat.
I'm on to that old trick. I look at the floor to find my hat and you try to steal my point while I'm distracted.
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Bob Emmett wrote:
Sheesh, try to think, here!
Yes, *do* try to think here. You're whinging because I gave "Yer stoopid!" no more thought than it deserves.
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Ilíon wrote:
"Yer stoopid!"
You still don't get that it wasn't a "Yer stoopid", do you? :sigh:
Bob Emmett
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Ilíon wrote:
Oh, I think you dropped your hat. I'm on to that old trick. I look at the floor to find my hat and you try to steal my point while I'm distracted.
At least he said hat and not soap!
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Bob Emmett wrote:
You still don't get that it wasn't a "Yer stoopid", do you? :sigh:
You must be blind.[^] 'Cause, Heaven knows, you'd never say anything you know to be untrue.
I'm not Tim Craig: and he merely implied that your posts are pointless, not "Yer stoopid". It was this[^] that you took as being a "Yer stoopid". Otherwise why go to the trouble of paraphrasing Homer, other than to show how "unstoopid" you are?
Ilíon wrote:
you'd never say anything you know to be untrue.
Very true.
Bob Emmett
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Ilíon wrote:
Oh, I think you dropped your hat. I'm on to that old trick. I look at the floor to find my hat and you try to steal my point while I'm distracted.
At least he said hat and not soap!
Josh Gray wrote:
At least he said hat and not soap!
You had to call up an image of Troy bending over in the shower, didn't you. X|
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
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Josh Gray wrote:
At least he said hat and not soap!
You had to call up an image of Troy bending over in the shower, didn't you. X|
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
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Ilíon wrote:
Why would you presume that I'd ever bend over even in your thoughts and day-dreams?
I didn't. You brought it up. And Josh fleshed it out (so to speak.) Then I threw up.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
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I'm not Tim Craig: and he merely implied that your posts are pointless, not "Yer stoopid". It was this[^] that you took as being a "Yer stoopid". Otherwise why go to the trouble of paraphrasing Homer, other than to show how "unstoopid" you are?
Ilíon wrote:
you'd never say anything you know to be untrue.
Very true.
Bob Emmett
Bob Emmett wrote:
I'm not Tim Craig: and he merely implied that your posts are pointless, not "Yer stoopid".
Subtlety is my middle name. :laugh:
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