Middle East erupts

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

believe?

guffaw and snigger

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

I think you just proved Aliantha's point...

Well there wasn't much else I could say to your non-sequitor. I had to assume "mosy" was a typo for "many" and "your fellows" meant my countrymen.

Did you expect serious discussion to arise from a snide comment expressing surprise that three hundred million people spread over nine million square kilometers (most of whom I don't particularly think of as "my fellows") might not actually all think the same way?

Sorry to disappoint.

You can't imagine how desolated I am that Aliantha will not deign to debate the undebateable with me because I'm too picky about words. Really, I am stricken...

[DanaC]

Actually I think 'mosy' was a typo for 'most.'
and: undebateable= undebatable

Whilst we're in a picky mood in The Cellar. :-)

[Hippikos]

One must applaud Israel for being energetic to create a commission within weeks which will investigate why the Lebanese War failed to obtain its objectives. This could eventully lead to the fall of the Israeli government.

The US could learn something from that. The Iraq War has failed to obtain its objectives in most cases and in fact has weakened US homeland security. All it resulted were yawns...

For those who want to avoid the spelling-Taliban: WordWeb

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by richlevy

And that bit of idiotic repartee, Rich, is why I figure you misuse your intellect to an almost legally actionable degree. I simply cannot believe your opinions coincide with reality.

[Ibby]

No, he gave the only appropriate response to that statement.

[Hippikos]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

And that bit of idiotic repartee, Rich, is why I figure you misuse your intellect to an almost legally actionable degree. I simply cannot believe your opinions coincide with reality.

Indeed, he should have said: "I simply cannot believe your opinions coincide with reality"...

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Actually I think 'mosy' was a typo for 'most.'
Whilst we're in a picky mood in The Cellar. :-)

I don't regard as "picky" being uncertain what word is intended by a tetragram in which at least 25% of the letters are incorrect. :-) In fact I was prepared to accept that 50% of the letters were wrong rather than assume that the statement was even more egregiously hyperbolic than I thought it was.

Next time I'll try to avoid being that charitable with that speaker.

[JayMcGee]

*does the spock thing with the eyebrows*

charitable?

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

charitable?

Yes, I assumed the loony statement you were making was incrementally less loony than it actually turned out to be, at the cost of assuming you'd gotten 50% of the letters in the word wrong rather than only 25%.

Next time, I'll try to remeber that the benefit of the doubt was misplaced in that case.

[JayMcGee]

so, its still about spellimg, then.....

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Hippikos

snip~ The Iraq War has failed to obtain its objectives in most cases and in fact has weakened US homeland security.

WRONG! Bush doesn't have any objectives, he's just bumbling around over there.

[Hippikos]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

WRONG! Bush doesn't have any objectives, he's just bumbling around over there.

Actually he's on a golf holiday now with Poppy Bush. Like nothing's wrong in the world...

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

...
Next time, I'll try to remeber that the benefit of the doubt was misplaced in that case.

remeber? :p

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

so, its still about spellimg, then.....

Transposing two vowels is one thing. Solving a cryptogram yet another...and there's damn little context to mine for a nonsequitor. After all, Vs V unir gb thrff jung lbh fnvq, vg'f uneq gb pbzzrag ba vg ng nyy.