>MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: >>> I am not sure if the link would still work, but if someone could help >me out on this, I have no clue where to look for past threads... thank >you thank you. Hi Crystal, Past threads-- http://dragaera.info/ Click on mailing lists Click on the word archive on the Dragaera line. That will get you to http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi?1 Click on email that looks like one you posted. If it isn't yours, Click on the word <-thread-> to bring up all emails with same subject line. Click on one from MedCat7.aol.com Click on <- author -> and you can see every email you wrote. Then the hard part comes...finding the right one. There is also http://dragaera.info/dragaerasearch/ But it does not seem to be searching recent postings. Or even easier, someone nice like Chris Olson can search his emails and find the link (or however he found the link). Bato001.aol.com wrote Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:43:10 -0500 >>My wife saw the stickers and said that I was an idiot and that it made no >>sense. I told her that you had to be there and that it was an inside joke. >>She told me that in that case I was a f*&*ing idiot. :) I can't disagree. Hi John D. Barbato, O.D., Maybe you can read your wife some of Issola: Vlad, an Easterner (human), talking to Teldra, an (genetically- modified human) Issola: "'What are young Issola like?' Teldra flashed me a smile. 'Obsequious to the point of irritating, or else timid to the point of invisibility. What about young Easterners?' 'Brash, cocky, and convinced we can beat anything that walks, flies, or swims, and that we know all the answers to everything.' 'Rather like Dzur, then.' 'I guess. I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalized from one example. At least, I do.'" Issola, paperback, Chapter 14, page 211. Pause and see if you earn "actual chuckle" like Vlad did. If not, point out that Vlad, the Easterner (human), is using himself as the one example. Self deprecating humor, correct? Or tell her the bumper sticker is like a computer infinite loop or a circular argument. "Everyone generalizes from one example. At least I do." Or maybe you should not say anything about the bumper stickers anymore. I think you should *not* mention to your wife that you told us what she said. We do not want another Teckla/Phoenix to happen. Bye. Linda G.