On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, J. van Baardwijk wrote:

> The purpose of the police metaphor was to get you people thinking about the
> difference between a warning and a threat. Unfortunately, nobody seems to
> have gotten the idea.

We got the idea.  It's just that we've almost universally decided that
your metaphor did not, in fact, serve the idea you appear to have wanted
to get across.  :-)


Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

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