still wondering (was Re: Pep 245)

Grant Griffin not.this at seebelow.org
Tue Apr 10 13:13:27 EDT 2001


In article <mailman.986882113.14693.python-list at python.org>, "Tim says...
>
>[Grant Griffin]
>> ...
>> And I've wondered ever since.  But Tim cleared that up recently when
>> he said that he had met Aahz.  So that gives us two witnesses.
>
>[Aahz]
>> Note that I have never claimed to have met Tim.

Come to think of it, neither has Tim.  So that makes two of you.

>Yet someone claiming to be me claimed to have met you, while I personally
>have never claimed we've never met, and indeed have never claimed that you've
>ever claimed to have met me. So I think Grant is going to have to settle for
>Guido's word on this -- provided he believes Guido exists.

I certainly do.  But Mark Lutz and David Ascher?...well, I'm not so sure...

>However, the
>evidence for "Grant"'s existence isn't rich enough to sustain a cockroach,

Then maybe it's time for cockroaches to start reassessing their personal values.
As Thoreau said, a cockroach is rich in proportion to the number of things he
can afford to let alone.

>so I suggest we henceforth kindly ignore these taunts
>until he provides credible proof of corporeality.

I taunt, therefore I am.  QED

(OK, that doesn't exactly prove "corporeality" (whatever _that_ is <wink>), but
mere "existance" is a hard enough thing to prove, so let's just leave it at
that.)

>i'm-told-89%-of-usenet-posters-are-actually-insects-ly y'rs  - tim

Naw, they just look that way from the other side of the tube...

don't-believe-everything-tom-christiansen-tells-you-<wink>-ly y'rs

=g2

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