Roger that! <smirk>
--Bad Bob
On Feb 6, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Yes, Bob, but rightness is not only about erm, rightness. Elegance or beauty
> has to come into it as well. And if it looks cr*p it must be cr*p :-)
>
> Chris
> Yes, all right, "rightness" looks rubbish as well . . .
> On 6 Feb 2013, at 19:59, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Now you know it's not _that_ wrong. I mean, language is about clarity,
>> right? And if I read a post by someone that contains egregious violations of
>> the Language Code, and I tell them they are in like for a good Barkering,
>> how much more clearly could I put it? Same with our beloved Mr. Fides. If I
>> were to say, "Man, you're going to get properly Andrewed for that tangent!"
>> Well, you'd know exactly what I meant. F'er heaven's sake, you Brits are the
>> ones that turned a proper noun, and a very good man's name, into a euphemism
>> for coitus. Roger that! Really? <wink>
>>
>> --Scofflaw Bob
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