Bato001 at aol.com wrote: > 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!!! ;) And what does that make me ??? A 65 year old (nearly) retired professor who is preparing to play an Orca in a Heros game based on Dragaera? -- John Oliver Associate Professor Associate Chair Department of Astronomy University of Florida Project AST at RHO http://astrho.astro.ufl.edu see the night sky at http://concam.net/rh/