DMB said "Uh oh, looks like it's apology night for Dave." Ian says - It's OK Dave, I'm not holding my breath. Ian
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:41 AM, david buchanan<[email protected]> wrote: > > dmb said: > ...And it's not just a problem among students. It's also a problem for > grandmothers like Marsha, who thinks Pirsig is a relativist. > Marsha replied: > That's my label, Dave, grandmother? > > > dmb says: > > Uh oh, looks like it's apology night for Dave. > > I didn't mean "grandmother" as an insult. Some of my favorite people are > grandmothers. One of them happens to be a different grandmother named Marsha > whose son recently graduated from law school and yesterday took his first job > as a lawyer. She's rightly proud. That particular Marsha is a very cool > artist and she's pretty hot too. For whatever it's worth, I am old enough > (47) to be a grandfather. One day when I was picking my son up at school I > saw a pony-tailed guy my age picking up another student. Assuming he was the > boy's father, I joked, "Geezer dads of the world unite!". He said, "Um, > actually I'm his grandfather". > I was just disputing Rorty's contention that relativism is a position that > nobody holds except for "the occasional cooperative freshman". I only meant > that one doesn't have to be a naive child to be a relativist. Sorry, but > you're a granny with a master's degree and so I thought you were a great > counter-example. > Besides, ain't it just a fact? If you are going to be offended by labels, > please be offended by the relativist label. > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. > http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
