On 04/17/2017 08:19 PM, Wildman via Python-list wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:23:34 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes: >>> Rurpy <ru...@yahoo.com> writes: >>>> A couple weeks ago a frequent poster here (Steve D'Aprano >>>> <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>) called another participant an "ugly >>>> american" >>> >>> Oh stop trolling. >> >> Paul, that is uncalled for. The charge of bigotry is not to be lightly >> dismissed, and we do want to foster an environment here where people >> will feel welcome. > > Your words remind me of this: > > "The seriousness of the charge mandates that we investigate > this. Even though there is no evidence, the seriousness of > the charge is what matters." > --Tom Foley (D) Speaker of the House
Amusing, like Bill Clinton's "depends what your definition of is is", or Donald Rumsfeld's known unknowns and unknown unknowns. But yet, isn't investigation what produces evidence? Sometimes things that sound silly at first really aren't. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list