I would like to thank the members of Tango-L for an entertaining few months reverifying what is commonly attributed to Henry Kissinger, but is perhaps more properly referred to as “Sayre’s Law”: In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue.
Since 'there is only one [tango], and none other before [it]', the acceptable range of discussion on this list would appear to be quite limited, and not particularly useful were I interested in expanding my knowledge of dance (note that I didn't say "tango") to include any aspect of the world of fake tango. It is also quite clear that tango, having been defined by a set of dancers in BaAs quite some time ago, must remain culturally pure and uncontaminated by other times, other places, other dances, and, more generally, by the hoi polloi. It is also good to know that when the level of discourse drops to serious name calling, it is conducted off-list (I hadn't realized that I was a sh|thead until fairly recently, but I can go with that.) With hopes that I never have the misfortune to encounter the level of intolerance shown on this list in my real life, This is D. David Thorn signing out. _________________________________________________________________ Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
