My response was put on the back burner due to dental insufficiencies , but your new entries in the Oxford Dictionary need acknowledgment. weenie == equals normal ---- most of our lives --- interrupted by some heroic attempts to be mature- techies===- we, as dabblers in stuff we know little about but think we do Marta
On Jul 29, 2007, at 16:19 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > weenie: an emotional juvenile, afraid, and to ridicule, everyone not > just like themselves. > > techie: the rest of us. best...jf > > > On Jul 29, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Jerry, >> you ARE wonderful, but no matter how much we like to be pure -- >> today everything is a big mish-mash , weatherman do not report, they >> make the weather, announcers are nowadays stars and need to have >> pleasant, beautiful and truth-inspiring faces and a truly awe- >> inspiring hair cut, truth and opinions are cooked up like quick >> oats into an easily swallowable pablum concoction that does not >> upset the stomach, and we, we, we are the weenies , all of us who >> used to be called normal in times past, because normal means to be a >> small sausage in so many of life's menus . >> Weenie is my word of the day, on top of the one that comes to me by >> email. I feel like producing some poetic outpour on "Weenies' >> lament" or the like, so that the word can be included in the new >> Oxford dictionary. >> >> And in order this email have some sort of technical connect, my f- >> keys on my iBook have different functions than those on my iMac -and >> I shall try to find out which were set by Apple and which were >> manipulated by me. While in the age of forgetfulness ( no, I have >> not been given by the gods the beaker filled with the drink of Lethe, >> my forgetfulness is age dependent,) ---However, I may , with some >> deep concentration, be able to talk intelligently about the f-keys , >> perhaps even write a treatise on " the ever puzzling f-key dilemma" >> Marta >> >> >> >> On Jul 29, 2007, at 15:25 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: >>> >>>> send hate mail to the "poor, simple, just-doing- >>>> my-job journalist." >>> >>> journalist write and verifiy fact, columnist express opinion. >>> columnist are not to be confused with journalist, though a >>> journalist >>> might write for a column. the mere fact of being published in a >>> newspaper does not automatically assign journalistic credential. >>> it's >>> the editor who makes the final call to run it, in this case most >>> likely something unread to fill column space with no exposure to >>> libel. >>> >>> this writer sounds as yet another columnist, however annoying his >>> juvenile grasp for the concept of diversity may be. at the end of >>> the >>> day a weenie is just a weenie, not a journalist. best...jf >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>> be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >>> macgroup >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
