From: MassiveProng on
On 12 Jan 2007 12:23:36 +0200, Phil Carmody
<thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> Gave us:

>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> writes:
>> Phil Carmody wrote:
>>
>> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes:
>> > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >How about food in restaurants ? I've just disovered it may be in some
>> > > 'Indian'
>> > > >food for example but there's no way of knowing.
>> > >
>> > > You ask. There was a lady who went to eat a restaurant and
>> > > ordered pesto sauce because the waitress said there wasn't any
>> > > nuts. Pesto sauce is pesto sauce because of the nuts.
>> >
>> > Typical BAH bullshit. Pesto does not need to contain nuts.
>> > As long as you're crusing herbs, it's pesto (simply meaning
>> > 'crushed' nothing more). The best parts of the best pestos
>> > are the cheeses.
>>
>> Green pesto contains *pine* nuts.
>
>Typically yes. My favourite rosso contains cashews. This proves
>nothing. My second favourite doesn't contain any nuts, yet it's
>still pesto rosso.
>
Phil, The Guru of Great Fatness (and how to get there) has spoken.
From: Ken Smith on
In article <eoal14$8ss_002(a)s914.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>In article <eo87us$nji$3(a)blue.rahul.net>,
> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote:
>>In article <eo85rh$8qk_007(a)s788.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>[...]
>>>Sheesh. The invention of ink didn't change the words used.
>>
>>Actually it did. The printing press did it even more so. How words were
>>spelled, the ones used and to some degree how they were pronounced were
>>all changed by the fact that the written word can be transported over long
>>distances.
>
>I said "the words used".

I said "the ones used"

>
>/BAH


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From: Ken Smith on
In article <uKudnf7uj82CfTXYnZ2dnUVZ8qKvnZ2d(a)pipex.net>,
T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>news:eoal14$8ss_002(a)s914.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
>> In article <eo87us$nji$3(a)blue.rahul.net>,
>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote:
>>>In article <eo85rh$8qk_007(a)s788.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>>[...]
>>>>Sheesh. The invention of ink didn't change the words used.
>>>
>>>Actually it did. The printing press did it even more so. How words were
>>>spelled, the ones used and to some degree how they were pronounced were
>>>all changed by the fact that the written word can be transported over long
>>>distances.
>>
>> I said "the words used".
>
>Which, I would have though, was covered with the "spelled" phrase?

No, because I also put in "the ones used". Having the "spelled" phrase
also mean that would have me repeat my self and if the phase containing
the word "spelled" covered that case, the statement becomes a tautology.



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From: Ken Smith on
In article <eoaqe3$8qk_005(a)s914.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
[....]
>>>>Actually it did. The printing press did it even more so. How words were
>>>>spelled, the ones used and to some degree how they were pronounced were
..............^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>all changed by the fact that the written word can be transported over long
>>>>distances.
>>>
>>> I said "the words used".
>>
>>Which, I would have though, was covered with the "spelled" phrase?
>
[....]
>And since Ken did his usual obfuscating of what was being talked
>about, the thread drift is a dead end.

I'm afraid that I was dead on topic and you just skipped over sonme very
important words.


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From: MassiveProng on
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:29:44 -0000, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:

>Somalis who think the ICU are a good thing.
>Just because you and I think of them as "terrorists" does not mean the term
>has an abstract, definite, value.

So how do you classify such things as embassy bombings?