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To: PhilipFreneau
Am I to understand that you were so antagonized by my comment you felt the need to confer with a bunch of "elitist university types" over it?

Frankly I have a hard time believing anyone could be so obsessed with an off-hand comment that was virtually OT to begin with. But then again, here were are, what is it now, the 4th exchange, and you're still trying to attack what you think is an elitist liberal snob.

I also recommend that you write in more General-American prose, rather than Northeast-Liberal-Elitist prose.

I don't even know what you mean by that? It sounds vaguely elitist though, in a plebeian sort of way. Frankly I've always been told my writing style was byzantine, with bizarre grammar and spelling errors -- which were, for the record, due to my dyslexia -- certainly not "Northeast-Liberal-Elitist." That actually sounds like a complement in comparison.

As for the BS bit, a fellow Freeper told me what it meant awhile ago, but since I'd never actually seen it used in any of the threads I usually post on I didn't know for sure. As a matter of fact I've been reading FR since 2000 (I used to post under a friends name back then), but I haven't been to FR much in the past 3 years, so there are probably lots of FR conventions and courtesy I'm unfamiliar with. Thank you for explaining it to me, and I apologize for any errors I have committed due to my ignorance.

Also, just a side point, I can understand your disgruntlement about the "pagan" bit, but "nerd?" I thought that was what made it obviously silly?

Waiting patiently for the next barrage of denunciations
Your ever weaselly aloof "liberal-straw man"

121 posted on 06/26/2007 9:54:58 PM PDT by BarbaricGrandeur ("The riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness." -Alcuin of York, to Charlemagne.)
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To: BarbaricGrandeur

>>>Also, just a side point, I can understand your disgruntlement about the “pagan” bit, but “nerd?” I thought that was what made it obviously silly?<<<

If you were trying to be silly, why did you not state so in your reply to my original post, rather than posting an even more bizarre “explaination”.

Anyway, my point is, we read enough Founding Father bashing without having to read it from a fellow freeper, even when the intent is “tongue and cheek”.


127 posted on 06/28/2007 12:29:40 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau (God deliver our nation from the disease of liberalism!)
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