Re: purity
| December 07, 2017 01:49PM |
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jim pallow Wrote:
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> Welcome Eric! Be aware some of us
> are not as pure as others!
hank Wrote:
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> Well some of us are purely . . . {ahem} *
> Of course I float so I must be at least
> 99 & 44/100% pure.
> I always think of meself as more of a
> pedant than a purist though.
Pedants, Hank -
Especially the arrogant sort, are personages up with whom – per The Old Man** – we here on the NGDF should not put.
OTOH, we can perhaps arrange to have a bust of yourself carved from Ivory and placed in a suitable location alongside the railroad — perhaps atop the Garfield Monument at the west portal of Toltec Tunnel #2 (aka Rock Tunnel) . . .
- Willie
* The "<" and ">" surrounding "ahem" (above) caused it to "disappear" as an unactionable HTML tag, and so have been replaced with "{" and "}".
** Sir Winston Churchill is said to have responded to the excessively nit-picky editing of one of his speeches by an over-enthusiastic grammarian with the comment, "This is the sort of arrogant pedantry up with which I shall not put."
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> Welcome Eric! Be aware some of us
> are not as pure as others!
hank Wrote:
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> Well some of us are purely . . . {ahem} *
> Of course I float so I must be at least
> 99 & 44/100% pure.
> I always think of meself as more of a
> pedant than a purist though.
Pedants, Hank -
Especially the arrogant sort, are personages up with whom – per The Old Man** – we here on the NGDF should not put.
OTOH, we can perhaps arrange to have a bust of yourself carved from Ivory and placed in a suitable location alongside the railroad — perhaps atop the Garfield Monument at the west portal of Toltec Tunnel #2 (aka Rock Tunnel) . . .
- Willie
* The "<" and ">" surrounding "ahem" (above) caused it to "disappear" as an unactionable HTML tag, and so have been replaced with "{" and "}".
** Sir Winston Churchill is said to have responded to the excessively nit-picky editing of one of his speeches by an over-enthusiastic grammarian with the comment, "This is the sort of arrogant pedantry up with which I shall not put."
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