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> >>
> >>Granny awards?
> >
> >Sometimes I wonder if these typoes are Freudian ...
> >
>
> I wouldn't touch that remark with a ten foot psychiatrist ;-)
>

:)

>
>
> Granted, but I think with the "me-centricity" the limits can be too
> easily
> exceeded. Once I forget that you and I share some of the very same
> qualities, and that you are entitled to your own set of likes,
> dislikes,
> and opinions, I've lost respect for you, whether I realize it or not.
> That's the shame, we both deserve it. I think that it's very easy to
> do
> that if I'm only concerned with "me".
>

The danger if you do not allow any personalization and polarization of
the debate is that it might not really take off. I think that when we
debate we necessarily reduce our thoughts, in my case sometimes I even
write things I did not know I thought :). This reduction helps to
express things and it is healthy when people take sides. At the end of
the day, this helps people to bring relevant and less relevant arguments
pro and con... and so we can come to a synthesis. (I know, Hegel ...:))
Some devils advocate-ion is called for, even sometimes a zest of bad
faith, as long as we exchange our views, which I personally find more
interesting, albeit less financially retributing than the discussion of
one or the other syntax topic.

Of course all this must remain within the limits, but with have Michel
and rule #3 to watch over us. I agree that he does a wonderful job, but
I'd like him to be a bit less touchy sometimes.

> My apologies for what I should have realized would be an unclear
> metaphor.

That's OK! :)

> Here in the U.S. (and perhaps Canada too) there's a national toy store
>
> chain, named: "Toys-R-Us" (The "R" is backwards BTW, but this
> defective
> keyboard doesn't have one of those :-)). To explain the obivous, since
> the
> store has mostly toys, and since the purpose of this forum is not joke
>
> telling, wise cracking, etc...
>

OIC, thanks.

> >>
> >>"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death
> your
> right to say it." - Voltaire
> >>
> >Fooooiiiie. I _am_ impressed. You must have Quotation CD on line
> no?
> :)
> >
>
> Don't be. I picked up that quote from an old public affairs TV show
> called,
> "Your Right To Say It", that aired in Chicago back in the '60s. No
> Quotation CD for me, but given I have two high school aged children,
> may I
> ought to get one. Since you seem impressed by that quote, and in light
> of
> the application of rule #3, consider the following:
>
> "Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a good deal worse." -
> Cervantes
>

My god! You _are_ good...

Regards,

Marc