[lit-ideas] Re: Providing a fair trial and sentencing
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:19:14 -0330
You ain't got dat kind'a dough, shweedhart. Look in the yellah pages.
Walter Spade
Rappaport, Rappaport, Rappaport and Spade
Chicago, ILL
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> Wanna be my atty, Walter? What's your long distance fee?
>
> Julie Krueger
>
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Providing a fair
>
> trial and sentencing Date: 1/11/2007 4:41:19 P.M. Central Standard Time
> From: _john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx) To:
> _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on:
> Hear! Hear! Bravo! Bravissimo!
>
> John
>
> On 1/12/07, _wokshevs@xxxxxxx (mailto:wokshevs@xxxxxx) <_wokshevs@xxxxxx _
> (mailto:wokshevs@xxxxxx) > wrote:
> Quoting Robert Paul <_rpaul@xxxxxxxx _ (mailto:rpaul@xxxxxxxx) >:
>
> snip
> > I've apparently been kicked off the list for
> > admitting that I was wrong about something, in clear violation of the
> > list guidelines.
> snip
>
> And the application of that sentence will be performed shortly, as I have
> been
> assured by this List's Board of Regents. Let this be a lesson for everyone
> else
> who remains on this List. Violations of List imperatives, policies and
> arbitrary preference will not be tolerated. Regardless of race, colour,
> creed,
> gender, religious affiliation, sexual orientation(if any), or the holding
> of
> administrivial office - as in the case of Mr. Paul (President and
> Vice-Chancellor, Mutton College, Nebraska, USA) - such fragrant and
> egregious
> floundering of our cherished epistemic and moral ideals and virtues, as was
> expressed by Mr. Paul's acknowledgement of phallibilism, will not be
> tolerated
> in this bastion of civility, rationality and humanity.
>
> While Mr. Paul admits to the above failing, almost in an indecently
> self-congratulatory tone, I might add, he deliberately omits to mention
> numerous other violations of List policy, and, hence, transgressions against
>
> Pure Reason, that he has committed over the many years of his residence and
>
> care
> at our institution. Allow me to identify just a few of these for the benefit
>
> of
> the common good in general and new members in particular who may be
> wondering
> about the purposes and methods of our institution.
>
> Lest it be known, that Mr. Paul has repeatedly been cited, convicted and
> fined
> for replying to posted messages by our illustrious membership - that surely
> itself constitutes grounds for exile to Newark, NJ, but this is not my
> major
> point - where said replies clearly, distinctly and consistently revealed a
> close and informed reading of his interlocutors'positions! .... Order!
> Order,
> please. But there is more, ladies and gentlemen. Copious and meticulour
> researches of our List archives, conducted by our own trained staff, have
> been
> able to discover, within Mr. Paul's record of pubic discussions on this
> List,
> not one reference to the paternal or maternal background of his
> interlocutors,
> nor even so much as an oblique, tacit reference to himself as one who has
> devoted his entire life to the pursuit of philosophical clarity and
> elegance.
>
> Extending the inquiry into the primal origins of this List in its
> precursive
> "Phil-Lit" form (vide Comrade Denisovitch Duttonovskaya, Dsirektor) it has
> been
> revealed that Mr. Paul has spent most of his adult and pubescent life in
> gainful employment as a Professor of Applied Metaphysics and Venn Diagrams
> at
> one of the most prestigious centres of higher learning in the Best Western
> Hemisphere. This fact notwithstanding, it remains the case that the
> cumulative
> record reveals not one instance of any expression or ejaculation even
> remotely
> resembling the propositional content of:
>
> "Look. Let's be honest. You're a philosophical moron with an ego the size of
>
> Newfoundland (and Labrador) and you have way too much time on your hands.
> And
> like Kissinger said of Ronnie, 'You've never been intellectually tested
> and
> you've never been brought to your knees through elenchus.' Or something like
>
> that, anyway."
>
>
> I rest my case. Visits to Mr. Paul in exile in Mud Lake, Labrador, on Ides
> of
> March, may be arranged through Lit-Ideas, Penal Division, and through Air
> Canada (god love ya!).
>
> Walter O.
> Division of 4-M Curation (Morals, Morale, Mores, and Manners)
> Museum of Lit-ideas
> Cosmopolis, NL
>
>
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