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Was (Bob)

04/17/01 6:02 PM

#657 RE: Joemoney #644

LOL!

Dennis Miller is one of my favorites. He's easily one of the most intelligent comics out there and has perhaps the greatest mastery of the language, and has an amazing font of knowledge from which to draw his wonderful analogies.

That some people don't understand him doesn't mean he's using words horribly or has bad grammar. He's just being him and you've really got to be on your toes to keep up.

That said, my dad hates him because he's "too snotty". I've never heard anyone accuse him of traits belying lack of intelligence before though.

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marcos

04/17/01 6:20 PM

#660 RE: Joemoney #644

'like dennis miller' - thanks J, i'll try to live up to that - funny, articulate, right-on, and up late at night .... as for 'grammer' [sic] i'll try to type slower for you ... what i find hard to understand in your posts is your philosophy ... perhaps you'd consider thinking more broadly? ... if you'd be so kind to yourself ... tia

Josef - lol - http://pmorris.web.wesleyan.edu/phil255.html

' .... the fact that many people, when criticized or contradicted, become very defensive and even more hardened in their viewpoints. Carnegie states it this way: "Once having said a thing, you feel you must stick to it"(152), and that "most citizens don’t want to change their minds about their religion or their haircut or communism or their favorite movie star" (126). It is human nature to defend one’s original position. Admitting that one is wrong about something does tremendous damage to one’s ego. It is like acknowledging that one is not as important as one thinks one is. Since people have such a need for a feeling of importance, they seldom easily admit to their own faults, as doing so would bruise their ego.'

You just can't have an ego online ... if you have one that just won't let go, try Preparation H on sandpaper ... if that doesn't work - hide it well, amigo.



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greg s

04/17/01 6:54 PM

#661 RE: Joemoney #644

Joe,

Respectfully:

"you sound like dennis miller. i don't understand a word your saying. your horrible use of words combined with your bad grammer create an unreadable message."

The word "your" should be you're

The word "grammer" is correctly spelled grammar

Kind regards,

greg