jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) (02/15/90)
It may not be in OED, but its presence in Webster's
should bring forth an apology for the charge that I made it up.
--
"Come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day;
Give me your lips and don't take them away."
From Lerner's and Loewe's BRIGADOON
and quite appropriate for February 14th!roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) (02/16/90)
In article <6=R1LBDxds8@ficc.uu.net>, jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes: > > It may not be in OED, but its presence in Webster's > should bring forth an apology for the charge that I made it up. > Vigilantism doesn't appear in the Britannica-Webster Dictionary and Reference guide, either. But it *does* have a nice ring to it. -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include <opinions.h>;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. | <Ono-Sendai: the right choice!>
cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook) (02/17/90)
[jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) recently posted that: | |It may not be in OED, but its presence in Webster's |should bring forth an apology for the charge that I made it up. | |-- |"Come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day; |Give me your lips and don't take them away." | From Lerner's and Loewe's BRIGADOON | and quite appropriate for February 14th! This guy (and his cronies) are turning this group into cesspool and making it impossible to use it for its original purpose: discussing new news groups. I have some interest in the latter, but none whatsoever in who called whom what and who said what to whom. Would someone please do us all a public service and post the procedures for screening out postings from a particularly obnoxious individual? I know about killing subject threads, but simply putting the persons name doesn't seem to work. (I use rn, if that's important.) Thanks! - Dale (N1US) Encore Computer Corporation, Marlborough, Mass. INTERNET: cook@encore.com "Nothing is inherently and invincibly young UUCP: buita \ except spirit. And spirit can enter a human talcott } !encore!cook being perhaps better in the quiet of old age bellcore / and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure." -- George Santayana
" Maynard) (02/17/90)
In article <6=R1LBDxds8@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes: >It may not be in OED, but its presence in Webster's >should bring forth an apology for the charge that I made it up. Trish? Apologize? teehee. chuckle. Hoho. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA!!! <choke> <gasp> AHAHAHAHA!!! <cough> <cough> <major asthmatic outbreak> hehehehehe snicker <cough> Oh, that's (hahaha!!!) too much, Jeff! <coughcough> You're killing me! hehehehe. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Free the DC-10!
xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/18/90)
In article <TM9:VJA@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes: = In article <6=R1LBDxds8@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) = writes: => It may not be in OED, but its presence in Webster's => should bring forth an apology for the charge that I made it up. = = Trish? Apologize? = = teehee. chuckle. Hoho. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA!!! <choke> <gasp> = AHAHAHAHA!!! <cough> <cough> <major asthmatic outbreak> hehehehehe = snicker <cough> Oh, that's (hahaha!!!) too much, Jeff! <coughcough> = You're killing me! hehehehe. Trish (TRISH IS NEVER WRONG(tm)) O Tuama apologize, instead of changing the subject promptly or blaming her opponent for her mistakes or just flaming on mindlessly while trying to ignore her sudden double amputation? Apparently you didn't read her CLASSIC TRISH(tm) followup to Jeff's note (one of millions, collect the whole set)? Come on guys, I've got acute respiratory problems and a massive depression to nurture and shattered bones trying to knit. I can't take a lot of shaking and knee slapping and rolling around helplessly on the floor and hyperventilating and ... . Besides, the neighbors are reaching for 911, and the cats are climbing the curtains looking for a way out, and it's bad for my image and I'm stirring up a lot of dust and everybody's putting me in their kill files and my jaw's coming unhinged. You know, she works just like /dev/null as an unending input device: (flames < /src/rissa > /sink/unreadably_boring_tripe) >& /news/*/*/* OB New newsgroup proposal: news.groups.autocombustion.rissa -- xanthian@ads.com xanthian@well.sf.ca.us (Kent Paul Dolan) Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'.
xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/18/90)
In article <325@comcon.UUCP> roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: >In article <6=R1LBDxds8@ficc.uu.net>, jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes: >> >> It may not be in OED, but its presence in Webster's >> should bring forth an apology for the charge that I made it up. >> > Vigilantism doesn't appear in the Britannica-Webster Dictionary and >Reference guide, either. > >But it *does* have a nice ring to it. > From G. C. Merriam Co., the recognized authority on American English as long as there has been a dictionary published in America; Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1960 edition: Vigilantism: n. The policy or practice of vigilantes. Since it has been around as a recognized word for at least 30 years, longer than many of those arguing have been alive, it shows every sign of being a Real Word(tm). Since the ODE 1) is not a dictionary of American English, and 2) is nowhere close to "V" in completing its first revision, and since no other American dictionary has any pretense of being authoritative, may I respectfully suggest that all opinions to the contrary are worthless, and those arguing to that end could do themselves a big favor by ceasing to suck toe jam? I don't particularly like Jeff, but when he's right, he's right, and those who continue to argue for error when the right path is known to them are fools. OB New newsgroup proposals: talk.second_rate_dictionaries, alt.illiterates.rissa, alt.flame.dictionary.oneupsmanship -- xanthian@ads.com xanthian@well.sf.ca.us (Kent Paul Dolan) Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'.
rissa@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Patricia O Tuama) (02/19/90)
In article <TM9:VJA@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay >= Trish? Apologize? >= teehee. chuckle. Hoho. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA!!! <choke> <gasp> Yep, that was pretty much my response too. Thank you, Jay. In article <10938@saturn.ADS.COM> xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (K*nt "The Master Net.Vigilante Himself" Dolan) writes: Only two flames, K*nt? Why you're losing your touch, dear. I remember when something like this would have set you frothing to the net in a spasm of foul flame hysteria good for at least 15-20 vicious verbal upchuqings in at least two if not three or four newsgroups. >(flames < /src/rissa > /sink/unreadably_boring_tripe) >& /news/*/*/* I don't know, K*nt, obviously it doesn't work for you. at that point trish, very amused
garret@chinet.chi.il.us (Garret Toomey) (02/19/90)
In article <10939@saturn.ADS.COM> xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: >From G. C. Merriam Co., the recognized authority on American English > alt.flame.dictionary.oneupsmanship What a good idea. Perhaps you and all the others who want to play dictionary games would consider posting there yourselves? Garret