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- From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
- Subject: Re: Flush Limburger
- In-Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu's message of Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:00:53 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:23:11 GMT
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- OK, Jim, let's get simple here. I didn't start this thread.
-
- Do I dare suggest that you retrieve the entire thread and read it before
- you begin compelling me to "grow up a little bit and answer your
- question"?
-
- The definition I posted earlier was straight out of the dictionary. I
- posted it in response to someone's "personal" definition of the word
- bigot. (Sometimes it appears we need a New Conservative World Dictionary to
- contain all these new meanings for common words around here.)
-
- I even made the point in my earlier post that readers could now decide for
- themselves whether Limbaugh was a bigot or not. (In addition, I made a
- light-hearted remark wondering how Limbaugh might look in a moustache.)
-
- My point in saying:
-
- >There you have it, folks. Definitive PROOF that Rush Limbaugh is NOT
- >a bigot.
-
- was simply that the absence of a response to this [challenge] so far was
- obviously considered to be adequate "proof" [and certainly to any loyal
- Limbaugh fan] that Rush is not a bigot. (Ignoring the alternative
- condition where no one cared to argue it and produce the hard evidence
- that was demanded, in conjunction with the definition of the word bigot.)
-
- Never having insisted that Limbaugh is or isn't a bigot, I do not feel
- obligated to defend either position. Clearly, it would be futile anyway,
- since arguments by those who think he is one are very unlikely to convince
- those who think he isn't one. And vice versa.
-
- So why waste the effort arguing it? Concede. To both sides. I did.
-
- There's your answer, Jim: I didn't care to contest anything but the posted
- definition of the word bigot.
-
- Get it now?
-
- This reminds me a little of the Monty Python skit where a fellow paid
- money to get an argument. The other man accepted a 5# note, and then
- proceeded to argue for some time that he hadn't been paid. Then suddenly
- he stopped arguing, and had to be paid another 5# note before he would
- continue arguing.
-
- So send me a fiver if you want me to continue arguing.
-
- L.
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