butenhof@orac.DEC (05/19/84)
Gee, I finally got around to reading all the people flaming at me for flaming at them! Wow, most fun I've had in ... well, in the last few minutes, anyway! Of course, I took them all as more or less humorous in intent -- if any _weren't_ intended that way, then phffft to you, too! Mine was, and this is too. Apologies for my mistakes! I don't know how that pesky little 'site' and 'siting' slipped in there; I really do know how to spell 'cite,' and even 'citing,' on good days. Now I have a spelling checker hooked into EMACS' textmode -- sigh, won't help any, though, since 'site' is a word, too. What can I say? And I humbly admit to being wrong on the saltshakers, too. Like I said, I didn't look anything up. Guess the memory had some double bit errors that got past my ECC. However, re the particular exchange >> The salt shakers, for example, were not "twentieth-century kitchen >> utensils." They were in fact twenty-first century table utensils. >> (me) > Star Trek was never said to be set in the 21st century. They were vague > during the series, saying "22nd or 23rd" ... > (Roger Noe) I didn't mean to say Star Trek occurred in the 21st century. I must confess that I was using "21st century" to mean "something intended to be futuristic," in a sense of implying that they didn't necessarily succeed. Having once worked out a mapping of stardate into our measurement system (from several episodes which give common dates and year intervals), I was aware of when Star Trek took place. On other subjects, I love that Klingonaase grammar! Guess I'll have to get Ford's book -- I've avoided Star Trek books ever since the first few that came out, since few seemed to be very good. From what I've heard, this must be an exception. Well, that's enough hot air for now. See y'all later. /dave butenhof DEC 110 Spitbrook Rd. Nashua, NH orac::butenhof (DEC e-net) decwrl!rhea!orac!butenhof (the cold and lonely world outside) "Enterprise," says a male voice, "Uhura speaking." -------------------- Please note that this mail message is likely to be incomplete. The sender aborted the transmission. RHEA::MAILER-DAEMON --------------------