Re: We're simply more discreat

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They're sending out fortune cookie emails now?


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:48 PM
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Labs, this is some please-correct-me sexual game you're playing, isn't it?


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:48 PM
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I just threw up in my mouth a little.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:52 PM
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2: Hm. I should have clicked trhough. Or maybe I did click through, but just desperately wanted to believe it was true anyway, and that I got to play grammarian.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:53 PM
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2: Have you followed the link, Little Miss Thing?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:53 PM
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Oy. Wankeriffic assholes and the twee gits who write them.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:56 PM
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Play grammarian, but wear the maid outfit.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:56 PM
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That exhibits both lameness and also yet another sign of the closeted homosexuality of Powerline: it's gayghey


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:03 PM
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Am I the only one wondering if the email's author is about to bring up snails and oysters?


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:04 PM
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Re: 2, 7

Be very, very strict in correcting mistakes. And use the special red pen.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:06 PM
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[redacted]


Posted by: [redacted] | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:06 PM
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"John I recognize by his humor and a certain lightness of touch."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:12 PM
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Indeed. I, too, feel that the entire purpose of a liberal arts education is to enable one to laugh at one's inferiors. Also, wasn't there some euphemistic phrase for gayness that described it in terms of some kind of "higher" aesthetic/intellectual something-or-other?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:17 PM
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Surely they know it isn't the 18th century.

Here are some words to avoid:

Compleat

myriad

mischief-makers

prospect

magisterial


Posted by: Joe O | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:20 PM
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No, they think it's the 18th century, as is made clear by their insistence that condescension is a good thing.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:25 PM
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And that Gandhi was "rabble" to be put down forcefully.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:32 PM
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John, Paul.... and who? Ringo? George?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:54 PM
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Pius, Urban, Anacletus, and Sextus.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:56 PM
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And the little-know Pope Guilty.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 2:46 PM
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Unfortunately, the little know Pope Guilty a bit too well.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 10:21 PM
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