Resumption of "Article About Herb Schildt Accepted at Comp.Risks"

[spinoza1111]

You clearly don't recognize the literary reference, blm, Here it is:

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

(TS Eliot, The Hollow Men)

One artifact of a universal medicalization of behavior, for example,
Peter Seebach's failure to get a proper education being excused as a
fashionable ADD, is that behavior that would be historically decent or
admirable, such as using the Internet since one was at Princeton to
define one's beliefs and defend others, is regarded as just another
pathology. In a world in which right-wing radio talk show hosts boast
of being ADD and alcoholic, there's of course no advantage in being a
normal decent person who doesn't take shit.

Say what? The history I'm talking about is the history of Nilges posts

Do me the courtesy, Ms. Enabler, of at least using the possessive
case properly.

 

[Bill Reid]

You clearly don't recognize the literary reference, blm, Here it is:

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

(TS Eliot, The Hollow Men)

YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!!! NO WONDER NOBODY LIKES YOU!!!

I made the mistake of buying "Southland Tales" for like
$3 from a bargain bin in a Walgreen's since I was buying like
eight pounds of Blue Diamond Smokehouse almonds on sale.
I had heard it was one of the worst movies ever made, so
on a whim I decided to check it out, and boy "they" weren't
wrong.

All throughout this near-3-hour piece of excrement they
paraphrased the Eliot quote in the voice-over narration
and in dialog:

"This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
Not with a whimper, but with a bang."

AND NOW YOU THOUGHTLESSLY REMINDED ME OF THIS HORRIBLE
MOVIE THAT IS NOW BEING USED AS A COASTER FOR MY MOST
DRIPPIEST DRINKS!!! THANKS A MILLION, CREEP!!!

 

[spinoza1111]

YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!  NO WONDER NOBODY LIKES YOU!!!

People who shop at WalMart don't like me. Isn't that a kiss my ass.

I made the mistake of buying "Southland Tales" for like
$3 from a bargain bin in a Walgreen's since I was buying like
eight pounds of Blue Diamond Smokehouse almonds on sale.
I had heard it was one of the worst movies ever made, so
on a whim I decided to check it out, and boy "they" weren't
wrong.

All throughout this near-3-hour piece of excrement they
paraphrased the Eliot quote in the voice-over narration
and in dialog:

"This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
Not with a whimper, but with a bang."

AND NOW YOU THOUGHTLESSLY REMINDED ME OF THIS HORRIBLE
MOVIE THAT IS NOW BEING USED AS A COASTER FOR MY MOST
DRIPPIEST DRINKS!!!  THANKS A MILLION, CREEP!!!

I hope this is deliberate parody, I really do
For if it is not, well then, **** you.

 

[Colonel Harlan Sanders]

You clearly don't recognize the literary reference, blm, Here it is:

No, she clearly was just wondering what its relevance was.

And why the hell do you dig up a three month old post to niggle on
such a trivial point?

.... omit usual spelentic attack on Seebach...


Do me the courtesy, Ms. Enabler, of at least using the possessive
case properly.

Really? You are offended at a missing (allegedly -- one could use
"Nilges" as an adjective) apostrophe? In a three month old post?

After skulking off after your last series of embarrassments, you
choose this as your excuse to open the Nilgewater taps?

Incidentally, reminding us all that your "Article About Herb Schildt
at Comp.Risks" was REJECTED a week later.

This is really not up to your usual high standard of trolling, Nilges.

 

[Tim Streater]

People who shop at WalMart don't like me. Isn't that a kiss my ass.

I should think that people who shop at Walmart have never heard of you,
more like, and are in consequence much better off.

 

[blmblm]

No, she clearly was just wondering what its relevance was.

Correct. (I think I found "whimper" not an especially good
description. It's hard to remember exactly.)

And why the hell do you dig up a three month old post to niggle on
such a trivial point?


Really? You are offended at a missing (allegedly -- one could use
"Nilges" as an adjective) apostrophe? In a three month old post?

My intent was indeed to use "Nilges" as an adjective. I don't
think that's especially discourteous, but -- oh, maybe it's
mildly so. I hadn't really thought about it.

[ snip ]

This is really not up to your usual high standard of trolling, Nilges.

And yet here we both are ....

While I'm at it, I'll mention that while indeed I have not read
Vaughan's book on the Challenger disaster, I *have* read Orwell's
essay on politics and language, several times over the years, and
I find it highly amusing to compare .... No, no, not going there.

 

[Seebs]

My intent was indeed to use "Nilges" as an adjective. I don't
think that's especially discourteous, but -- oh, maybe it's
mildly so. I hadn't really thought about it.

"Nilges's posts" => posts by or pertaining to Nilges
"Nilges posts" => posts that are characteristic of Nilges

To look slightly later:

Vaughan's book on the Challenger disaster

Note that we don't need to say "Challenger's disaster". If you omit
the apostrophe (and s, depending on where you learned the rule for
names ending in s), you're changing the meaning slightly, and it's
no longer a possessive, but it is still a reasonable use of a noun as
an adjective.

English is flexible this way.

"seebs's code" => code written by seebs
"seebs code" => code characteristic of seebs

-s

 

[blmblm]

"Nilges's posts" => posts by or pertaining to Nilges
"Nilges posts" => posts that are characteristic of Nilges

Interesting distinction, but not one I was intending to make;
my intended meaning was the one you say would be best expressed
with the possessive.

Just sayin'. Maybe you're right.

To look slightly later:


Note that we don't need to say "Challenger's disaster". If you omit
the apostrophe (and s, depending on where you learned the rule for
names ending in s), you're changing the meaning slightly, and it's
no longer a possessive, but it is still a reasonable use of a noun as
an adjective.

Now here I think you don't have a choice -- the possessive would be
incorrect, though I'm not sure I can say why.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Interesting distinction, but not one I was intending to make;
my intended meaning was the one you say would be best expressed
with the possessive.

Just sayin'. Maybe you're right.

[...]

I can't remember the last time you posted something here that was
actually about C.

Just sayin'.

 

[blmblm]

[ snip ]

I can't remember the last time you posted something here that was
actually about C.

Just sayin'.

Well, I haven't posted anything at all for about a week. Before
that ....

There's this one, pointing out a minor glitch in a format string
and recommending the use of "-Wall" or its equivalent:

<[email protected]>

And there's this one, which admittedly isn't exactly about C but at
least is about something technical (registers and multiple cores):

<[email protected]>

Admittedly each of those posts was accompanied (?) by one that was
totally off-topic.

"Just sayin'" back at ya? Or maybe it *is* a fair cop ....

 

[spinoza1111]

Interesting distinction, but not one I was intending to make;
my intended meaning was the one you say would be best expressed
with the possessive.

Just sayin'.  Maybe you're right.

[...]

I can't remember the last time you posted something here that was
actually about C.

Just sayin'.

Hey, my Dad can beat up your Dad, and he put the principles of
neurosurgery into verse. I'll put the principles of C programming into
Alexandrines just to annoy you kiki.


If thou must program in the C programming way
O Tyro, heed, and hearken to what I have to say
'Tis a language old, runic, cabalistic and crude
Delighting not the wise, but only the Rude.

....

 

[spinoza1111]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:42:09 -0700 (PDT),spinoza1111

No, she clearly was just wondering what its relevance was.  

Correct.  (I think I found "whimper" not an especially good
description.  It's hard to remember exactly.)

And why the hell do you dig up a three month old post to niggle on
such a trivial point?

Really? You are offended at a missing (allegedly -- one could use
"Nilges" as an adjective) apostrophe? In a three month old post?

My intent was indeed to use "Nilges" as an adjective.  I don't
think that's especially discourteous, but -- oh, maybe it's
mildly so.  I hadn't really thought about it.

[ snip ]

This is really not up to your usual high standard of trolling, Nilges.

And yet here we both are ....

While I'm at it, I'll mention that while indeed I have not read
Vaughan's book on the Challenger disaster, I *have* read Orwell's
essay on politics and language, several times over the years, and
I find it highly amusing to compare ....  No, no, not going there.

Because your comparision is in fact indefensible. Orwell's style is in
actuality more "verbose" that modern journalese because he was
literate, and you continually trust that expressions you've seen in
print will be understood by all, something he completely disavows. And
as to your tendency to trail off, to in effect whimper: Orwell would,
I think, despise it.

And...are you even aware that you're replying to and enabling a
sockpuppet?