* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
True, indeed. It *was* nonsensical to use that metaphor in that
context, since it was about an issue that called for serious
consideration. I don't know wny you can't seem to see that.
Well, religion-addled brains are good for one thing, anyway. This
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:51:38 -0400, JDG wrote
On the other hand, seriously considering the opinion of another is
typically an adult-to-adult relationship.It would be rather nonsensical
to use a child/permission slip metaphor to argue against an adult-to-
adult dynamic of seriously
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:25:14 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote
This article was pointed out to me by a friend:
http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?ObjectId=2275Function=DETAILBROWSEObjectType=COL
http://tinyurl.com/98hsz
There are four definitions listed for codependency:
*
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:17:08 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote
Not bad. Addiction to self-righteousness, I like to call it sometimes.
Inspired by David Brin, I should add.
Nick
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Some neat reading.
-Travis
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Well, maybe not Brin-L, specifically, but:
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-
witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the
simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if
he is firmly persuaded that he knows
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 28, 2005, at 7:43 PM, JDG wrote:
The Bush Administration used the child/permission slip analogy to make
this
*latter* viewpoint, that the US must gain the *permission* of the UN
Security Council before activing, appear
From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Permission Slips
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:57:32 -0400
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 28, 2005, at 7:43 PM, JDG wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Permission Slips
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:57:32 -0400
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL
At 05:54 PM Friday 4/29/2005, Travis Edmunds wrote:
But what if that feeling of annoyance is singular to you?
-Travis
No danger of that on this list: it's clear to anyone who observes the list
for a week (or less) that feelings of annoyance about _some_ subject or
other are almost ubiquitous
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:54 PM Friday 4/29/2005, Travis Edmunds wrote:
But what if that feeling of annoyance is singular to you?
-Travis
No danger of that on this list: it's clear to anyone who observes the
list for a week (or less) that feelings of
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Permission Slips
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:58:59 -0500 (CDT)
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4/29/05, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Permission Slips
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:25 PM
Subject: Co-dependency
This article was pointed out to me by a friend:
...Douglas Adams spinning in his grave.
HHGttG was everything its detractors have suggested, unfortunately.
Entirely meaningless digressions, all the genuinely funny situations
replaced by watered-down simpering, and a story that was considerably
less finessed and meaningful than what Adams was
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...Douglas Adams spinning in his grave.
HHGttG was everything its detractors have suggested, unfortunately.
Entirely meaningless digressions, all the genuinely funny situations
replaced by watered-down simpering, and a story that was
On Apr 29, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
So I take it that you did not like it?
I'd rate it right down there with Vogon poetry. (Which, by the way,
remained in the movie, but in a cut-down fashion that left the scene
bewildering.)
/is not actually surpised. HHGTG didn't have a really
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
...Douglas Adams spinning in his grave.
Wrongo Slartibartfast!
The Earth shed almost all of its eccentricity when Adams passed on.
xponent
It Is Never As Bad As They Say Maru
rob
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On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
/is not actually surpised. HHGTG didn't have a really
straightforward, movie suitable plot.
In the shape it took for radio or the book, possibly not; but it
managed to make the
At 09:11 AM 4/29/2005 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:51:38 -0400, JDG wrote
On the other hand, seriously considering the opinion of another is
typically an adult-to-adult relationship.It would be rather nonsensical
to use a child/permission slip metaphor to argue against
At 10:21 PM Friday 4/29/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
/is not actually surpised. HHGTG didn't have a really
straightforward, movie suitable plot.
In the shape it took for radio or the
I, myself, thoroughly enjoyed it. Its not the books or the radio plays,
but it works. Whine all you want about your favorite bits that got left
out or cut down (and I do have a few of my own: for instance, the
amazingly amazing line of Zaphod's was replaced with a line that sped
the plot),
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
It was the unforeseeable way things fit together that really made the
story so damned clever. (Well, that and Adams's careful honing of
language, most of which was changed in the script by someone with the
same notions of subtlety as a hammer-wielding three-year-old.)
A
At 11:13 PM Friday 4/29/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
It was the unforeseeable way things fit together that really made the
story so damned clever. (Well, that and Adams's careful honing of
language, most of which was changed in the script by someone with the
same notions
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:13 PM Friday 4/29/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
It was the unforeseeable way things fit together that really made the
story so damned clever. (Well, that and Adams's careful honing of
language, most of which was changed in the script by someone
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