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From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 8 Jan 2010 14:26
On 2010-01-08, Bill BRaun wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>> Throughout this thread I have kept wondering: "Hmm. Is it that he's so
>> old that he can't see colors anymore? Is this some physical limitation
>> he has? Or is it just a case of: 'No, I have no concept of
>> esthetically pleasing nor an ability to read and apply advice given to
>> me.'?" Wait! Maybe it's a desire to return to amateur Web design
>> efforts of the mid-90s! Wait! This could be it!!!
>>
>> Well, there is the possibility of a combination of that last one with
>> some drug overdose situation. Everytime I go to his page I feel like
>> I'm having a really bad flashback to 1968 combined with a drunken night
>> of revelry from 1988 merged with a combined hangover of both of those.
>> Cripes. I really don't need this!
>
> No need to get personal.
>
> I can think of a logical reason - while he develops the page
> he wants each part to stand out in stark relief. Could he
> accomplish the same think less garishly? Probably.
>
> It may simply be what he has chosen because it works for him.

That's fine -- if he's going to be the only person looking at it
(which is quite possible given the way it looks).

--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com>
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From: dorayme on 8 Jan 2010 15:09
In article <g6-dnUxiYqeU29rWnZ2dnUVZ_h5i4p2d(a)posted.expedient>,
Bill BRaun <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > That reminds me - no, please don't ask me why, how do I know how my
> > brain works - of the Jewish mum who bought her son two ties, but when he
> > wore one of them she complained loudly to her husband, "See. He does not
> > like half the things I give him!"
>
> Gives her son two sweaters, one red, one blue. Try them on,
> she says. He returns wearing the red one. What, you don't
> like the blue one?

That was the original version I heard (with ties or whatever). But I
adopted mine at the last minute in a bid to make her judgement more
sweeping. I have a friend who writes brand new jokes (some of them are
quite good, some are improved after feedback from me).

Arthur Koestler had an interesting theory about jokes in a book called
The Act of Creation (or something like this). He tried to make a theory
to show what was common to all creative acts, in the sciences, in arts,
in comedy. One of the unwanted surprising consequences he faced was that
great but ultimately false scientific theories - think Newton's
mechanics - were a big joke on his criteria.

--
dorayme
From: dorayme on 8 Jan 2010 15:15
In article <g6-dnU1iYqfl2NrWnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d(a)posted.expedient>,
Bill BRaun <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Ed Mullen wrote:
> > Throughout this thread I have kept wondering: "Hmm. Is it that he's so
> > old that he can't see colors anymore? ...
>
> No need to get personal.

No, you are right. But Ed was completely drunk at the time and everyone
has a right to be this now and then without hiding the fact... <g>

--
dorayme
From: Mason C on 8 Jan 2010 16:57
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:09:15 +1100, dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>great but ultimately false scientific theories - think Newton's
>mechanics

bullshit Ford built Model T's based on Newton's mechanics and they worked
From: Ed Mullen on 8 Jan 2010 23:29
dorayme wrote:
> In article<3e2tgq.i19.17.1(a)news.alt.net>, Ed Mullen<ed(a)edmullen.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>
>>> In article<3e2jvb.auu.17.1(a)news.alt.net>, Ed Mullen<ed(a)edmullen.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I can't figure out why I have a sudden urge to go drink copious
>>>> amounts of liquid out of a Jim Beam bottle.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> er... that's a pretty easy one Ed. You are a hopeless drunk and possibly
>>> a wife-beater. It's not your fault, some men are just born that way.<g>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hey! I have NEVER beaten my wife!!!
>>
> Ah! So you admit to being a hopeless drunk then!<g>
>
> That reminds me - no, please don't ask me why, how do I know how my
> brain works - of the Jewish mum who bought her son two ties, but when he
> wore one of them she complained loudly to her husband, "See. He does not
> like half the things I give him!"
>
>
Err, so, I /should/ beat my wife? =-O

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person; they'll find an easier way to do it.

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