[Rhodes22-list] Political:Off to Iraq re: Dave
L. Sailor
watermusic38 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 26 19:27:51 EDT 2006
An easy way to remember:
"I imply, you infer" and 'Bring & come', 'take & go.'
Do you think they'll ever get 'number' & 'amount'
straight again...as in "A large amount of accidents on
I-95." AARGH.
(Sorry...the schoolmarm just reared her pince-nez'd
head...)
elle
--- Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> Small point, but you're misusing the word "infer".
> You would have made the implication, Brad would have
> (but maybe not) drawn the inference.
>
>
> Herb Parsons
>
> S/V O'Jure
> 1976 O'Day 25
> Lake Grapevine, N TX
>
> S/V Reve de Papa
> 1971 Coronado 35
> Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
>
> >>> DCLewis1 at aol.com 10/26/2006 3:26:05 pm >>>
>
> In a message dated 10/26/2006 9:16:12 A.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,
> flybrad at gmail.com writes:
>
> Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds
> at night only because
> rough men stand ready to do violence on their
> behalf."
>
>
>
> Brad,
>
> Regarding "read between the lines": In my experience
> reading between the
> lines applies to poetry and fiction - perhaps that's
> were you're experience
> is. But in the real world, if I wanted to say the
> men and women in the service
> were to dumb to get jobs in the private sector I
> would have said it plainly.
> I didn't say it, I didn't infer it, and I didn't
> think it. You might well
> served if you learned to read the English language
> as it's presented and
> curb your imaginative paranoid tendencies.
>
> As to Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in
> their beds at night only
> because
> rough men stand ready to do violence on their
> behalf."
>
> Who protects the good people from the rough men? Oh
> yeah, there is that
> problem, and there is no free lunch. Good people
> have to protect themselves,
> and we're quite capable of doing that. I don't need
> any rough man to do
> violence on my behalf, thank you, and I suspect that
> applies to everyone else on
> this list.
>
> Dave
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