Environmentalist Goes Nuts Over ClimateGate
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-gate is unimaginative, having been used so many times since Watergate (though, "Gatesgate" was humorous). -quiddick hasn't been used yet, it can hardly be deprecated. On the other hand, imagination/novelty is vastly overrated.
Ilíon wrote:
quiddick hasn't been used yet, it can hardly be deprecated
Had '-quiddick' never been used before (it has, go Google), it would remain unimaginative, merely copying a lazy journalistic cliché. (Although, I would agree with your subsequent post that Climate-quiddick is more appropriate.)
Ilíon wrote:
On the other hand, imagination/novelty is vastly overrated.
Typical bloody conservative! :)
Bob Emmett CDO and CDS - imagination at its best.
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Ilíon wrote:
quiddick hasn't been used yet, it can hardly be deprecated
Had '-quiddick' never been used before (it has, go Google), it would remain unimaginative, merely copying a lazy journalistic cliché. (Although, I would agree with your subsequent post that Climate-quiddick is more appropriate.)
Ilíon wrote:
On the other hand, imagination/novelty is vastly overrated.
Typical bloody conservative! :)
Bob Emmett CDO and CDS - imagination at its best.
Bob Emmett wrote:
Had '-quiddick' never been used before (it has, go Google), it would remain unimaginative, merely copying a lazy journalistic cliché.
So? Most things people say or write are but the copying of what someone else has said. As I said, novelty is overrated.
Bob Emmett wrote:
Typical bloody conservative! ;)
Isn't the traditional "liberal" accusation that we conservatives are too bloodless?
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Bob Emmett wrote:
Had '-quiddick' never been used before (it has, go Google), it would remain unimaginative, merely copying a lazy journalistic cliché.
So? Most things people say or write are but the copying of what someone else has said. As I said, novelty is overrated.
Bob Emmett wrote:
Typical bloody conservative! ;)
Isn't the traditional "liberal" accusation that we conservatives are too bloodless?
Ilíon wrote:
Most things people say or write are but the copying of what someone else has said.
The bulk of conversation and correspondence being of a mundane nature, that is true. But I expect more of professional communicators.
Ilíon wrote:
As I said, novelty is overrated.
May a diet of unleavened bread for eternity be your punishment, while I feast on the breads of "every race and clime". :)
Ilíon wrote:
Isn't the traditional "liberal" accusation that we conservatives are too bloodless?
It's on your hands. :)
Bob Emmett Frequently called "a typical bloody conservative".
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Ilíon wrote:
Most things people say or write are but the copying of what someone else has said.
The bulk of conversation and correspondence being of a mundane nature, that is true. But I expect more of professional communicators.
Ilíon wrote:
As I said, novelty is overrated.
May a diet of unleavened bread for eternity be your punishment, while I feast on the breads of "every race and clime". :)
Ilíon wrote:
Isn't the traditional "liberal" accusation that we conservatives are too bloodless?
It's on your hands. :)
Bob Emmett Frequently called "a typical bloody conservative".
Bob Emmett wrote:
The bulk of conversation and correspondence being of a mundane nature, that is true. But I expect more of professional communicators.
On many levels, whyever for?
Bob Emmett wrote:
May a diet of unleavened bread for eternity be your punishment, while I feast on the breads of "every race and clime". :)
I like unleavened bread ... though I do like even more things like challah and "yeast rolls" so freshly baked that you can still smell the little critters. If you really wanted to "damn" me, you should have wished me an eternity of Wonder Bread. "May you be a meal-worm in the middle of a loaf of Wonder Bread of infinite size, expanding exponentially; and may you know that you shall surely regain human form when you eat your way through the crust."
Bob Emmett wrote:
It's on your hands. :)
Dewd! It isn't conservatives who were behind: . the French Revolution, the Terror, the Vendee, the Napoleonic Wars . the Russian Revolution, Lennin, Stalin . Naziism . Fascism . Maoism . Pol Pot . Castro
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Bob Emmett wrote:
The bulk of conversation and correspondence being of a mundane nature, that is true. But I expect more of professional communicators.
On many levels, whyever for?
Bob Emmett wrote:
May a diet of unleavened bread for eternity be your punishment, while I feast on the breads of "every race and clime". :)
I like unleavened bread ... though I do like even more things like challah and "yeast rolls" so freshly baked that you can still smell the little critters. If you really wanted to "damn" me, you should have wished me an eternity of Wonder Bread. "May you be a meal-worm in the middle of a loaf of Wonder Bread of infinite size, expanding exponentially; and may you know that you shall surely regain human form when you eat your way through the crust."
Bob Emmett wrote:
It's on your hands. :)
Dewd! It isn't conservatives who were behind: . the French Revolution, the Terror, the Vendee, the Napoleonic Wars . the Russian Revolution, Lennin, Stalin . Naziism . Fascism . Maoism . Pol Pot . Castro
Ilíon wrote:
On many levels, whyever for?
Just as I would expect more of a professional midwife than a village wise woman.
Ilíon wrote:
If you really wanted to "damn" me, you should have wished me an eternity of Wonder Bread.
I was considering unleavened bread to be an early form of bread. Subsequent breads being mere novelties.
Ilíon wrote:
Dewd! It isn't conservatives who were behind: . the French Revolution, the Terror, the Vendee, the Napoleonic Wars . the Russian Revolution, Lennin, Stalin . Naziism . Fascism . Maoism . Pol Pot . Castro
Yes, a thoroughly unpleasant, and certainly bloody, collection. However, conservatives (the European Monarchies) were responsible for invading France. This gave rise to conscription - a contributing factor to the Vendée - and provided a launch pad for Napoleon's career. Their support for counter revolutionaries provided the 'rationale' for the Terror. Similar actions followed the Russian Revolution. Also, Fascism (and, by extension, Nazism) was supported by conservatives who saw it as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. This, combined with the war-weariness of Britain and France, contributed to the international inertia as Hitler continually violated the Treaty of Versailles. Blood may be on one's hands literally or figuratively.
Bob Emmett