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Who can say? Perhaps there is some other explanation for the gulf between online awfulness and courtesy in real life. >>
>>There is another explanation - that the assumption of the gulf is false.
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>IOW, Goff says gulf is guff < g >
ROFL - the NY Post's loss is our gain. As you often do, you made my day.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
