ravi narayan wrote:
>
> Duke Ellington wrote:
>
> >
> > People with C.B.Es etc don't go around all the time with those initials
> > attached to their names when write letters to people, so why do you attach
> > C.E.T (a thing that is of far less worth than "C.B.E"s etc) when all that
> > people want to see is your actual name or a nom de plume?
> >
>
> not that any of this is even remotely germane to the list/newsgroup, but
> having seen this thread refuse to die, i have a question: what is so
> much more worthy about a "CBE" than a "CET"? seems like the latter
> (which seems to be some sort of certification?) is awarded based on some
> objective criteria (testing?) and the former is an arbitrary recognition
> by an outdated authority.
>
> --ravi
>
> ps: perhaps the "queen" uses some objective criteria also, but perhaps
> if you can adopt the "nom de plume" of "duke ellington" you can humour
> someone else adding some letters to his or her name?
>
> --
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> man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined
> as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than
> laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also
> inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.
THREAD IS DEAD!
This "thread is Dead". Please!
Lets get on to curing the ills of Mozilla / N6, Making it the best Mail
& News Client, and Web Browser in the world bar none.
So we can beat the socks of MicroSoft.
THREAD IS DEAD!
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