[Coco] torn on getting a coco...

[Michael Robinson]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 05:52 +0000, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
> From: "Michael C. Robinson" <deemcr at robinson-west.com>
> > Quoting wdg3rd at comcast.net:
> > I'm an asshole?  Thanks for saying that, that must have taken you
> > a lot of effort.  At least I haven't used profanity on people
> > like you are using on me.  For an asshole, I'm not a very good
> > one.
> 
> You took ten seconds to respond to the first paragraph, and never read further.  
> Yes, you're an asshole.
> 
> And by the way, there's a difference between the terms "profanity" and "obscenity". 
>  "Asshole" is an obscenity.  "Damn you" is a profanity.  "God damn you" is an extreme 
> profanity, since it involves breaking one of the Commandments.  I'm an extreme atheist 
> (not only do I not believe, if a G-D shows up, I'm against it, so the Commandments don't 
> apply to me).  But I try to respect the language of those who conquered my ancestors.  
> I can only speak about four words of Welsh, and that's only when I drop a brick on my foot.  
> I use a God-damned shitload of both profanity and obscenity in my daily speech and I know 
> which is which.
> --
> Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

I stick my hand on a griddle, it doesn't burn because I don't believe it
will burn?  Well, that's a nice hypothesis, but it doesn't hold up.
Fine, you're being OBSCENE.  Congratulations, you have offended everyone
and you have lowered your nature.  What do you want, people's approval
of your atheism?  Good luck meeting with God face to face.  If God who
you don't approve of is too much for you, there is always hell.  I'd
rather spend eternity in Purgatory though.

> I thought about being diplomatic and polite.  Honest, I really did.  But while I was thinking 
> about it, I accidentally bumped the button that puts my mouth on autopilot, because it said, 
> "That's a load of crap, Captain, and you know it".    Jim Butcher, _Small Favor_