In a message dated 2/28/2005 11:03:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, FRIEDA2133 at aol.com writes: >>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. > Ha, ha, ha. We most certainly do not enjoy the same literary tastes, my wife and I. Also, She really doesn't care about me talking about it on the list, even if she did, I am certain that it's not a deal breaker. Any hoo, I *am* an idiot, but not for buying the stickers!!! Sometimes we have to laugh at ourselves. I definately am a sci-fi and Fantasy geek, but at least I'm her geek. She was just ribbing me for being a 37 year old, well respected doctor, buying bumperstickers from my *internet cronies*, that only someone who has read a certain book would understand. I see her point, of course, but I really don't care!!! ;) -- John D. Barbato, O.D.