That is what you are doing when you say "Don't do this or else..."

(A)"Don't touch that, it's hot!"

(B) Ouch! That's hot!

Cheers,

-- Unc D (unkeed@yahoo.com), June 06, 1999

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Good call Unc.

I pine for the day this species matures. Doesn't look like it will be in this lifetime. Time to wipe the slate clean & go back to the drawing board.

Come on roll-over.

Disgusted but not the least bit surprised,

-- Bingo1 (howe9@pop.shentel.net), June 06, 1999.

Unc, my thoughts exactly. I don't swear on this forum--well only an occasional hell or damn, but once I begin hearing "don't" and "thou shall not" and "play nice," I get the urge to kick over the sand castle and swear at these "puke-stockings." Censors: "The devil could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear." (Shakespear) I expect quotes by Shakespears, Voltaire, Swift, Abby, Hunter S. Thompson, etc., to be banned next.

I've always found it interesting that the Pilgrims came to the New World for freedom, especially religious freedom , and then almost immediately began imposing their very strict beliefs on everyone else. Soon they were dunking and flogging and censoring and shunning and burning just like the old boys back home.

Anyone notice the interesting parallel that the "censor managers," those most prone to publish articles accusing the government of everything, from persecuting the faithful to building concentration camps, from lying about everything from gum disease to executive orders, are the first in line to write a long list of rules. And said rules are their arbitrary decisions as to what is correct. Apparently "we the people" are too stupid to ignore posts we don't like. Apparently it is the nature of certain human beings, that given a little power to "oversee" or "manage," their first thought is to censor.

I'd rather put up with a troll any day than a censor.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), June 07, 1999.

My apologies to Shakespeare for misspelling his name not once, but twice! He had more to say about censors, and said it better, than anyone. He also had more scathing names, insults and "obscene" words for pretenders to the "pure heart and empty mind" crowd than anyone. Of course that idiot named Bowdler, who tried to purify the bard's mighty works, is now considered obscene himself for corrupting one of the greatest works in literature.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), June 07, 1999.

>> Apologies to Shakespeare for misspelling his name...<<

Not to worry. If I recall correctly, there are still about 4-5 extant signatures written by Master William, and no two of them are spelled alike! Apparently, he could not spell his own name the same way twice.

This was common in Elizabethan times. Christopher Marlowe also wrote his last name four or five different ways. So, you were only being "authentic".

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), June 07, 1999.

Very interesting Brian. Good thing they didn't have computers.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), June 07, 1999.