Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add
the sheep was
tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
"Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most of
us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and desist?
Bob Schmall
Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
Richard Feynman
"Dave Balderstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:290120041730174776%[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, Charlie Self
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
> > the poster.
>
> That's our Charlie... the poster child for tautologies everywhere!
Nice.
Bob Schmall notes:
>"Dave Balderstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:290120041730174776%[email protected]...
>> In article <[email protected]>, Charlie Self
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
>> > the poster.
>>
>> That's our Charlie... the poster child for tautologies everywhere!
>
>Nice.
Sneaky. I'd go for the child idea, but if I do, I'm in my second childhood, and
with my luck, my knees would probably still hurt.
Poster child for the Sore Knee Foundation?
Charlie Self
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is
sure."
Mark Twain
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
On 30 Jan 2004 15:18:12 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
brought forth from the murky depths:
>Sneaky. I'd go for the child idea, but if I do, I'm in my second childhood, and
>with my luck, my knees would probably still hurt.
>
>Poster child for the Sore Knee Foundation?
Are you part Sioux? They had Wounded Knees.
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Larry Jaques asks:
>
>>Sneaky. I'd go for the child idea, but if I do, I'm in my second childhood,
>and
>>with my luck, my knees would probably still hurt.
>>
>>Poster child for the Sore Knee Foundation?
>
>Are you part Sioux? They had Wounded Knees.
No Sioux me. My old man said he was something like 1/4 Cherokee, IIRC. I never
got around to asking which quarter.
Charlie Self
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is
sure."
Mark Twain
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Bob Schmall notes:
>
> >"Dave Balderstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:290120041730174776%[email protected]...
> >> In article <[email protected]>, Charlie Self
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
> >> > the poster.
> >>
> >> That's our Charlie... the poster child for tautologies everywhere!
> >
> >Nice.
>
> Sneaky. I'd go for the child idea, but if I do, I'm in my second
childhood, and
> with my luck, my knees would probably still hurt.
>
> Poster child for the Sore Knee Foundation?
Ayup, but SKF doesn't make *knee bearings*.
(Sorry Charlie, just couldn't let that one pass)
--
Nahmie
Those who know the least will always know it the loudest.
"mel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Most of us are ignorant and don't know what that means." <~~in itself a
> form of tautology or to be more specific pleonasm
>
Now that's a true fact, as opposed to a false lie.
Hey, Charlie is a writer and as such, he is supposed to know these
things. Me, I would't for a second ask him to quit his quotes for fear
that he might accuse me of being ignorant and not knowing what he had
said so I won't!
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:42:21 -0600, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add
>the sheep was
>tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
>
>"Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most of
>us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and desist?
>
>Bob Schmall
>Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
> Richard Feynman
>
Bob Schmall responds:
>Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add
>the sheep was
>tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
>
>"Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most of
>us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and desist?
>
Probably not. It's good for you. Besides, everyone in my last English class
knew what it meant. And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
the poster.
Charlie Self
"To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was
tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
In article <[email protected]>, Charlie Self
<[email protected]> wrote:
> And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
> the poster.
That's our Charlie... the poster child for tautologies everywhere!
;-)
djb
--
There are no socks in my email address.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 8:42am (EST-1) [email protected] (Bob=A0Schmall)
says:
Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to
add the sheep was tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook <snip>
Tautology? Doesn't have anything to do with boot-making, does it?
JOAT
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Pete Maccarrone
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 29 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
"Lawrence A. Ramsey" wrote:
>
> Hey, Charlie is a writer and as such, he is supposed to know these
> things. Me, I would't for a second ask him to quit his quotes for fear
> that he might accuse me of being ignorant and not knowing what he had
> said so I won't!
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:42:21 -0600, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add
> >the sheep was
> >tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
> >
> >"Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most of
> >us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and desist?
> >
> >Bob Schmall
> >Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
> > Richard Feynman
> >
OH! He's just trying to top Bill Buckley. :-)
...lew...
Lew Hartwick responds:
>> >"Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
>of
>> >us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
>desist?
>> >
>> >Bob Schmall
>> >Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
>> > Richard Feynman
>> >
>
>OH! He's just trying to top Bill Buckley. :-
No one tops WFB at over-use of complex words. But I didn't write this one. I
just posted it.
Charlie Self
"To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was
tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
> >OH! He's just trying to top Bill Buckley. :-
>
> No one tops WFB at over-use of complex words. But I didn't write this one. I
> just posted it.
>
> Charlie Self
I think Mr. Bukcley is an (or is it "a") euphimitistic
circumlocutionist,
exuberated by his own verbosity. Don'tcha just hate that?
What a group -e.e.cummings AND William F. Buckley referenced in one
24 hour period!
charlie b
Check the following link. :-)
http://dictionary.reference.com/
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to
add
> the sheep was
> tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
>
> "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
of
> us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
desist?
>
> Bob Schmall
> Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
> Richard Feynman
>
>
Lowell Holmes wrote:
> Check the following link. :-)
> http://dictionary.reference.com/
Awww, ya shouldn't have done that, Mel was doin' so well.
Dave in Fairfax
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Neat homepage, Charlie. Learned a LOT of good stuff about planes.
Recomend it to everyone else also.
On 29 Jan 2004 16:07:03 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
wrote:
>Bob Schmall responds:
>
>>Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add
>>the sheep was
>>tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
>>
>>"Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most of
>>us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and desist?
>>
>
>Probably not. It's good for you. Besides, everyone in my last English class
>knew what it meant. And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
>the poster.
>
>Charlie Self
>"To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was
>tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
>
>http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
"D. Winsor" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> " "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
> of us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
> desist?"
>
> "Tautology" - (N) The use of different words to say the same thing twice.
> ie. Charlie's Twain quote and Bob's appeal that he join the "ignorant" herd
> is, well, tautological of Bob. ;-)>
Damn, given that Charlie is living in West Virginia I kinda assumed
the quote had a sexual connotation :)
Dave Hall
Dave Hall responds:
>Damn, given that Charlie is living in West Virginia I kinda assumed
>the quote had a sexual connotation :)
>
You mean like a Scotsman's kilt when he's sheep herding?
Charlie Self
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is
sure."
Mark Twain
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 7:40pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(Charlie=A0Self) says:
You mean like a Scotsman's kilt when he's sheep herding?
Reminds me of that old song, about the drunken Scotsman. He wakes
up, looks under his kilt, sees that someone tied a blue ribbon on him.
He says, "I don't know where I've been, but I see I've won first prize".
JOAT
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Pete Maccarrone
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 29 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
"mel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Most of us are ignorant and don't know what that means." <~~in itself a
> form of tautology or to be more specific pleonasm
Ain't you clever? You're the second one who noticed it.
"D. Winsor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> " "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
> of us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
> desist?"
>
> "Tautology" - (N) The use of different words to say the same thing twice.
> ie. Charlie's Twain quote and Bob's appeal that he join the "ignorant"
herd
> is, well, tautological of Bob. ;-)>
Heehee--and you're the only one who caught it.
Mr. Winsor decyphered ....
> "Tautology" - (N) The use of different words to say the same thing twice.
> ie. Charlie's Twain quote and Bob's appeal that he join the "ignorant" herd
> is, well, tautological of Bob. ;-)>
That's a relief. All I could think of was that line from a certain
Woody Allen movie.
Joe
"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> "Bob Schmall" wrote in message
> > Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to
> add
> > the sheep was
> > tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
> >
> > "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
> of
> > us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
> desist?
>
> Mark Twain was a profoundly funny guy, but the sentiment may have been more
> profound had he mentioned the sheep first.
>
Naaaaaaa
"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
" "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
of us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
desist?"
"Tautology" - (N) The use of different words to say the same thing twice.
ie. Charlie's Twain quote and Bob's appeal that he join the "ignorant" herd
is, well, tautological of Bob. ;-)>
In article <290120041730174776%[email protected]>,
Dave Balderstone <[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, Charlie Self
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
>> the poster.
>
>That's our Charlie... the poster child for tautologies everywhere!
>
>;-)
Better that than being a poster child for 'slack-ologies'. <guffaw>
"Bob Schmall" wrote in message
> Charlie's new sig: "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to
add
> the sheep was
> tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
>
> "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
of
> us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
desist?
Mark Twain was a profoundly funny guy, but the sentiment may have been more
profound had he mentioned the sheep first.
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Swingman responds:
>> "Tautology?" Geez, Charlie, you're getting pretty swanky and ritzy. Most
>of
>> us are ignorant and don't know what that means. Could you cease and
>desist?
>
>Mark Twain was a profoundly funny guy, but the sentiment may have been more
>profound had he mentioned the sheep first.
And possibly more accurate.
Charlie Self
"To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was
tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
On 29 Jan 2004 16:07:03 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
wrote:
<snip>
>
>Probably not. It's good for you. Besides, everyone in my last English class
>knew what it meant. And besides that, ol' Sam Clemens was the writer. I'm just
>the poster.
>
>Charlie Self
Gee, I used to know what it meant. Now I have to wait for a follow up
like most of the rest of yer!
James
[email protected]