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Carl Fogel
You stopped being amusing a long time ago. For irony to succeed it must be based on fact and since you've got it entirely wrong right from the start you've just been making a glib fool of yourself.
Dear DRS,
Thank heavens a sensible, relevant fellow like you is here to clear things up to benefit us all!
Such convincing detail! So many facts! Such wit, such charm, such willingness to defend the rightness of your battle against unfamiliar words and neglected attributions as embodied by the forces of darkness led by Sheldon Brown and his loathsome henchmen--and all with that quiet dignity, unperturbed by sarcasm or irony or whatever ya wanna call 'em!
(I hear that they're the tools of the devil himself!)
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"Sheldon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]
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>>"Yaw" is bicycle specific terminology? > >Nope, it's a general term, that's why it's not in my BICYCLE >Glossary. > > >>My point is that that definition is not as clear as it should be. > >Perhaps you're right. I've revised the definition in hopes of >making it easier for readers with a limited English vocabulary to >understand.
Unless you've memorized the roughly half a million words in the complete Oxford Dictionary your English vocabulary is also limited.
And please leave the relevant attributions in. I am not Robert Nurse.
Dear DRS,
Boy, I'm glad that someone finally had the courage to speak up and complain about not getting his money's worth from that greedy Sheldon Brown's web site! The nerve of that guy, using terms like that!
Writing unclearly benefits nobody, whether it is free or not.
Give me a [censored] break: http://www.dictionary.com. But I'm glad you've encouraged the incredibly inconsiderate Mr Brown to update the definition. I stopped reading his site awhile back because it was such a pox on the cycling community.
Greg -- Destroy your safe and happy lives Before it is too late The battles we fought were long and hard Just not to be consumed by rock'n'roll
You know, if you say "increasingly awed" quickly enough, you say "yaw" in there somewhere. Nicely done, Carl.
JF
Dear Jim,
Ah, some people are too kind. Y'all flatter me, but it was completely awe-nintentional, so the credit is entirel-y'awrs.
If I were famous or a genius, I could claim credit--after yawl, lots of James Joyce's supposedly subtle puns and word-play turned out to be nothing more than over a thousand errors made by bored French compositors trying to type-set what they privately called Anglo-Irish drivel.
And then there's poor dying Falstaff and the mysterious "a Table of greene fields" line that drove Theobald to guess that the First Folio was actually supposed to read "'a babbled of greene fields."
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Writing unclearly benefits nobody, whether it is free or not.
Give me a [censored] break: http://www.dictionary.com. But I'm glad you've encouraged the incredibly inconsiderate Mr Brown to update the definition. I stopped reading his site awhile back because it was such a pox on the cycling community.
Ah, another fool. Apparently they can breed. Most unfortunate.
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Writing unclearly benefits nobody, whether it is free or not.
Give me a [censored] break: http://www.dictionary.com. But I'm glad you've encouraged the incredibly inconsiderate Mr Brown to update the definition. I stopped reading his site awhile back because it was such a pox on the cycling community.
Ah, another fool. Apparently they can breed. Most unfortunate.
You're funny. Will you be my friend?
Greg -- Destroy your safe and happy lives Before it is too late The battles we fought were long and hard Just not to be consumed by rock'n'roll
... Boy, I'll say it matters! I hadn't reallized that Sheldon wasn't benefitting me until you took the time and trouble to point it out! How can guys like him live with themselves?
And then Sheldon went too far and committed a general breach of Usenet etiquette! People like him defile the internet!...
I demand that Sheldon Brown refund all the money I have paid to view his website. 😉
You stopped being amusing a long time ago. For irony to succeed it must be based on fact and since you've got it entirely wrong right from the start you've just been making a glib fool of yourself.
The whole thread is actually quite amusing, what with the stubbornness involved... -- Rick Onanian
