Dragaera

Robert Jordan (was: Seen the other night....)

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at comcast.net
Tue Feb 24 14:21:23 PST 2004

On Feb 24, 2004, at 3:56 PM, David Goldfarb wrote:
<snip>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:20:40PM -0800, David Goldfarb wrote:
>>>    David Goldfarb          |"An athiest is a person who wierdly 
>>> refuses
>>> goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu  |to recieve the gift of beleif in a 
>>> diety."
>> 				 ^^^^^^^             ^^^^^^
>>
>>> goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu |  -- Dave Langford, on rec.arts.sf.fandom
>>
>> Ah....the irony  :)
>
> Are you laboring under the impression that that sig has any mistakes 
> in it?
> If so then there's more irony than you think.  Let's just say that your
> comment should have been more like:
>
>>   David Goldfarb          |"An athiest is a person who wierdly refuses
>>                                ^^^^^^^                 ^^^^^^^
>> goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu  |to recieve the gift of beleif in a diety."
>>                               ^^^^^^^             ^^^^^^      ^^^^^
>> goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu |  -- Dave Langford, on rec.arts.sf.fandom
>
> You're the second person I've encountered who didn't understand that 
> sig;
> I'm starting to wonder if it's too subtle for the net.
>
> -- 
>    David Goldfarb       <*>|"Never argue with a pedant over 
> nomenclature.
> goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu  | It wastes your time and annoys the 
> pedant."
> goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu |             -- Lois McMaster Bujold
>
>

This is ALL to subtle for me. I thought athiest meant the one with the 
most athy.