Huck, I'm confused. You seem to be arguing both sides of the equation
> From: Huck Kennedy <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 14:13:27 -0700 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like tango? > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Alexis Cousein <[email protected]> wrote: > On > 06/05/2010 04:32, Huck Kennedy wrote: > > AJ Azure <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> You'll never really find a group you like if you first assume you > won't like >>> them. >> >> Now that makes no logical sense at all. > There is always room >> for the element of pleasant surprise. > > The fact of > the matter (and why it is indeed logical) is that you > don't find a flower > blooming on earth you've just scorched. Thank you so much for correcting > me on how my own brain works after all these years. Where would I be without > you? > Those kinds of "surprises" don't happen. And now to dispense > with your presumptuousness on this point altogether: Try watching the video > of Suan Boyle's original performance on Britain's Got > Talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY We all know how Simon > Cowell scorns everything and everyone from seeing him in action on American > Idol. You can see the same prejudicial scorn on his face and the faces of the > other judges as a rather plain and dowdy woman of a certain age comes onto the > state and announces she wants to be a singer. The judges, and even most of > the audience, are all expecting the usual flop one might be prejudiced > to expect from such an unlikely contestant (who obviously must be daft to be > up there on the stage at her age), and of course--according to you, who > apparently knows it all, there is just no way these judges can possibly be > open to any sort of pleasant surprise. They've already scorched the Earth, > donchaknow. But come to find out--gosh, the big mean Simon Cowell and the > rest of them melt into adoring kittens once they hear the woman's voice. > Do you want to tell us anymore about what can't happen, or "the fact of the > matter," or are you > done? Huck _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing > list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
