I have passed this around the house and showed it to friends who are visiting. Without tipping my hand, they said that Joe was obviously one sarcastic SOB who didn't deserve a "translation"
Thank you, Miss Manners, for the instruction in how to read posts. I just fell off the turnip truck and I desperately needed your advice. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM, tartbrain <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>wrote: > I missed the slam in his words. Its a funny point though -- for me -- I > will read something and hear that persons voice -- with various intonations > -- usually deriding or sarchastic -- and then "rehear" it with different > intonation -- and in that "reread" find its quite neutral. Sometimes even > positive. Like Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis -- he got two notes from > Nikita K -- one that was positive and a step forward, the other a scathing > rebut. Kennedy choose to go with the positive one -- and by doing so > possibly kept the world from blowing itself up. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" > <bill.hicks.all.a.r...@...> wrote: > > > > Being nice is an option. Joe decided not to be nice but to be sarcastic. > I > > copied from an email someone on IA sent me. Yes, I have the ability to > > communicate good stuff. But not when someone uses the language Joe used. > > Translate? Really? I note that no one except Joe slammed me. > > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:49 AM, tartbrain <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" > > > <bill.hicks.all.a.ride@> wrote: > > > > > > > > It was not posted for the developmentally impaired. > > > > > > Being nice is an option. You have it within you. And in that mode, you > can > > > still communicate good stuff. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Joe <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can you translate this into something more readable please? I can't > > > quite > > > > > figure out what you are saying here. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" > > > > > <bill.hicks.all.a.ride@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Pardon his gushing. He is on the longest running propaganda > campaign > > > in > > > > > > history. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This from IA: > > > > > > > > > > > > If you read this its a update on the IA course and the Dome There > is > > > > > > happiness and delight as the true enlightened leader graced our > > > presence > > > > > in > > > > > > the Dome,Jerry Jarvis after 30 years.When asked about it,Well i > did > > > build > > > > > > it.Jeff Cohen is taking a break after loosing his head with an > > > > > International > > > > > > from New Zealand after saying that he wished all internationals > would > > > > > Fuck > > > > > > off and go back to where they came from. > > > > > > > > > > > > I assume Jeff was talking about Dr. BM and our KING. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > > > > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > > > > > Or go to: > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > > > > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Morality is doing what is right despite what you are told. > > > > > > > > Religion is doing what you are told despite if it's wrong. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > Or go to: > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Morality is doing what is right despite what you are told. > > > > Religion is doing what you are told despite if it's wrong. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Morality is doing what is right despite what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told despite if it's wrong.
