atw: Re: Mouses??
- From: "I-Ashley, Bruce" <bruce.ashley@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:33:58 +1000
Sorry list, Michael's slap needs a return service.
Michael, Michael, Michael.
My kids would probably agree that I'm a grumpy old man but coming from
someone who once criticized me for calling him 'Mike' before his amazing
mid-life transformation into the frivolous and vacuous 'Micky G', I find
this comment amusing at best.
I haven't gone through mid-life crisis yet so maybe when I do, I'll buy
a Harley, grow a pony-tail and call myself Brucey A (although everyone
will think I'm a Kiwi). Then maybe you and I will see eye to eye again.
Until then, I suggest you read emails properly. If you did, you would
see that Howard laid the first criticism (albeit generally) on those
using "mouses" and I merely rebuked him on this because despite what
you, Peter or Howard think, he was wrong to criticize others for the
correct use of a word.
Howard then replied, I replied again, Peter jumped in and not wanting to
start a slanging match on-line, I replied off-line and now here we have
your classy little tid-bit.
As for your comment "Seriously dude what is wrong with you, don't you
think its about time you get laid for real?". I guess you are speaking
from experience since this comment was originally sent to yourself I
believe you were stated.
Anyway, I'm surprised at your comments, particularly when you were not
directly involved in the initial discussion, are clearly ignorant of the
points of that discussion and usually pretend to be a 'nice guy'.
I guess you have a dark side hidden behind the 'Micky G' persona.
Anyway, I always find these diatribes enlightening. :)
Oh, and there is nothing erudite about Peter's comments or your own but
I'm sure Peter and Howard appreciate your support anyway. I just wish
you knew what you were talking about when you gave it.
Cheers,
Brucey A
Happy Dood
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Edward Granat [mailto:megranat@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:36 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Mouses??
Oh dear Bruce (A)
What has made you such a grumpy old man since we last met?
We were having a vibrant and informative debate and you let
it become so personal so fast.
To paraphrase Peter G-M's response (ta Peter by the way for an
outstanding reply that mirrors my own thoughts) dictionaries are based
on observed popular word usage. The popularity of words rise and fall,
appearing in and, eventually disappearing from the pages of various
dictionaries. "Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious" was very popular in
the
late 1960s / early 1970s post "Mary Poppins" world (It's in my 1969 Funk
&
Wagnalls Dictionary for example) but wouldn't get you very far in
today's
corporate world.
PLEASE lighten up, man!
Also, after Peter G-M's response beat me to the punch, and in a far more
erudite manner than I had intended (You remember erudite Bruce? It's
that twin pack glue that one uses to create compound words, which
takes three days to set.) I was struggling to find suitable words to
reply.
Then, as if by chance, I received a Spam E-mail that had precisely set
right tone (if not the incorrect use of "get" instead of "got") for such
a
response. And I quote, with apologies to the rest of the list:
"Seriously dude what is wrong with you, don't you think its about time
you get laid for real?"
Says it all, really.
Cheers,
Micky G.
Write Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au
P.S. Your last comment on this issue? Pull the other one!
> (Sorry list ... this is my last comment on the issue)
>
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