From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: It seems over... Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:12:30 -0600 (CST)
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Travis Edmunds wrote:
> Among the many fanciful notions contained within your banefully targeted > bluster - which really is nothing more than a preamble to an undignified > instance of gratuitously belittling egotism - I feel most compelled to > point out, that the rather haughty presupposition that you are actually > in a position to make an objective judgement on the inherent worth of > anything Warren posts, sticks out as the most pompous of them all, and > is quite contradictory in nature, as well as being downright defeatist > in practice. And why a man of your artfully advertised calibre would > choose to employ such a device is beyond me. Why, it's little more than > antithetical rhetoric! So in the future please keep in mind that you > really need to try MUCH harder if you want to persuade people of > anything, or even if you want to avoid appearing the fool...
Eschew obfuscation. That's all I have to say about the above paragraph....
<smile> Cute parallel. But I think you may have unwittingly stumbled into a hornet's nest of the deliberately bombastic.
Admittedly though, the above paragraph may indeed come off as an utter contrivance on my part; notwithstanding the fact that I didn't exactly feel that way when I wrote it, due to it's frightfully obvious flamboyancy. Therefore I'll give your endorsement of eschewment a little credence in that particular light.
-Travis "underpromise; overdeliver" Edmunds
Story of my life:
My first instinct is usually right. If I act upon it, it's usually wrong. I have a great imagination.
PS - I'm a big Rex Murphy fan.
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