If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)
Ben Wolfson
wolfson at uchicago.edu
Thu Apr 19 13:14:05 EDT 2001
In article <9bmgid081b at news1.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I dispute my flames are _abusive_ -- I can quote a dozen outright
> insults you spewed out to people who dared disagree with you, while my
> formal politeness never wavered. The hostile tone, of course, has more
> to do with the insults that keep fanning the flames, although the
> disagreements would be just as large if we were the closest of friends.
Surely a man of your intelligence, Alex, knows that outright insults are
not the only way to be abusive?
--
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler
Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe,
But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
-- Robert Southey
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