[lit-ideas] Re: Dark Thoughts on Iraq

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:49:42 +0100

Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 11:58:20 PM, Eric Yost wrote:

EY> JE: Sod off.

EY> Eric: That's a great expression. How does that compare to fuck off?
EY> More emphatic or less?

About the same.

EY> Did you think I was calling the UK Vichy?

No.

EY> If so, my mistake...hard
EY> to think of the UK as part of Europe, despite the EU.

We are.  We are also perhaps considerably more "Vichy", if I
understand your nasty little insinuation correctly, than, say, France.


EY> Plus I didn't get much from your copy and paste nitpick reply. I 
EY> wish you had offered a thoughtful response, rather than pecking away
EY> at it like a sparrow on a piece of Melba toast.

Give me a thoughtful post and I'll try to respond thoughtfully.

EY> You are much more thoughtful than I am on these matters, Judy, and
EY> your reasoned response, even if unmerited by what I posted, would 
EY> certainly be welcome by many.





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