puerile dolts

Jul 14 17:47 UTC 2000

Wasn't it being somewhat redundant when Rane Curl used the phrase 
"puerile dolt"?  It would be hard to be a dolt without being puerile.

                        Pronunciation: 'pyu(-&)r-&l, -"Il
                        Function: adjective
                        Etymology: French or Latin; French pu\151ril, 
                          from Latin puerilis, from puer boy, child;
                          akin to Sanskrit putra son, child and perhaps to

                          Greek pais boy, child -- more at FEW
                        Date: 1661
                        1 : JUVENILE
                        2 : CHILDISH, SILLY <puerile remarks>
                        - pu\067er\067ile\067ly /-&(l)-lE, -"Il-lE/ adverb
                        - pu\067er\067il\067i\067ty /"pyu(-&)r-'i-l&-tE/ noun
 
 
 
                        Main Entry: dolt
                        Pronunciation: 'dOlt
                        Function: noun
                        Etymology: probably akin to Old English dol foolish
                        Date: 1553
                        : a stupid person
                        - dolt\067ish /'dOl-tish/ adjective
                        - dolt\067ish\067ly adverb
                        - dolt\067ish\067ness noun 
 
 
Synonyms he could have used are listed below: 
 
 
puerile:   CHILDISH, babyish, immature, infantile, infantine, prekindergarten

dolt:    DUNCE, boob, booby, chump, dolthead, fathead, goof, goon, lunkhead,
oaf~

response 2 of 39:

Jul 14 18:06 UTC 2000

prekindergarten boob.

response 4 of 39:

Jul 14 18:28 UTC 2000

#1 hits the mark:  I've been an *old* fool for quite some time.  I've never
been called an old *dolt*, but my life will certainly be enriched thereafter.

response 6 of 39:

Jul 15 03:09 UTC 2000

Is it in the field?

response 8 of 39:

Jul 15 13:40 UTC 2000

Curious if the topic hits the author too close to home.

response 10 of 39:

Jul 15 18:31 UTC 2000

Thank you Willard for pointing out the stupidity of the current censor
policy.

response 12 of 39:

Jul 16 07:43 UTC 2000

Perhaps the current 'censor policy' is an attempt
to among other things be merely polite instead of
re-writing history.

response 14 of 39:

Jul 16 12:51 UTC 2000

Actually what I mean to say.

Thank you so much willard for pointing out my personal error for
public scrutiny.  It appears with vital watchdogs like you no one
can go on without their public and correctable mistakes reproduced 
for point making and review.

It is good to know that you have appointed yourself the individual
guardian of justice, not permitting errors of judgement or perception
to go relatively unnoticed or unreviewed.  Choosing instead to 
quickly thrust back into public light that which most people could
care less about, and not just permit revew, but to FORCE review
by the readers at large, many of whom could have easily gone on
with their life without the knowledge of my error in words.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Now, my most sincere hope is that you must face each and every
embarassing error you have made in your life when you least desire
it, and in a most public way.  That would be justice, don't you think?

response 16 of 39:

Jul 16 14:02 UTC 2000

#14: Actually, I wasn't even paying attention to this thread.  I saw
     an expurgated response, retrieved it from the censored file, and
     posted it.  I intended no personal harm, just wanted to point out
     how senseless it is to even offer a scribble command if all it
     does is compile everyone's "wish I could take that back" remarks
     into one concise, easy to read collection of "oops"es.

     So from now on, I encourage someone (not necessarily always me)
     to do just this.  It won't be too long before voting no on
     closing that file has bitten EVERYONE in the ass.   And at the
     very least, it'll make for some fun.  :-D

response 18 of 39:

Jul 16 14:23 UTC 2000

Re: 16:  Well, your unblemished record of perfect netiquette will surely sway
people to your cause.    ;)

response 20 of 39:

Jul 17 00:46 UTC 2000

It is my understanding that both picospan and yapp write 'scribbled'
responses to a log file.  On M-NET that file is closed; it can be written
to but not read.  On grex, the file is open: it can be written to and
read by anoyone.

The log file here is permitted such that only cfadm (or a program running
as cfadm) can write to it.  I assume that the 'write' permission on M-NET
is similar.

response 22 of 39:

Jul 17 05:29 UTC 2000

Summer 200 agora 315 - puerile dolts - has been linked to language 107.

response 24 of 39:

Jul 17 21:53 UTC 2000

The subject concerned language use, hence the linkage. If you want
to discuss any language uses, you would be welcome - indeed thanked -
to enter a relevant item in the language cf.