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Grex Agora41 Item 238: How do you kill a Grexer? Put a knife in his hand!
Entered by jp2 on Wed Jun 5 19:15:14 UTC 2002:

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#1 of 41 by brighn on Wed Jun 5 20:10:41 2002:

I'm not sure if I should be flattered or insulted that I was left off the
list.

#2 of 41 by oval on Wed Jun 5 20:13:42 2002:

ya especially since slynne is on there ..

#3 of 41 by happyboy on Wed Jun 5 20:55:19 2002:

ALL education is SPECIAL!

#4 of 41 by jp2 on Wed Jun 5 20:57:31 2002:

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#5 of 41 by rcurl on Wed Jun 5 21:07:35 2002:

Add jp2 to that list.

#6 of 41 by krj on Wed Jun 5 21:25:02 2002:

Maybe Jamie should join Mensa, so people have to pass a test before
they interact with him.

#7 of 41 by jazz on Wed Jun 5 22:08:40 2002:

        The people in MENSA are about as exciting.

#8 of 41 by scott on Wed Jun 5 22:17:08 2002:

I thought they were quite dull, so I let my membership lapse.

#9 of 41 by ric on Wed Jun 5 22:17:28 2002:

DENSA.

#10 of 41 by other on Thu Jun 6 06:05:00 2002:

And once again, Jamie brings into his personal playground, where 
namecalling is the chief means of winning friends and influencing third-
graders.  

Jamie, how many times do I have to tell you?  Wipe your feet before you 
come into the house!

#11 of 41 by jp2 on Thu Jun 6 14:04:56 2002:

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#12 of 41 by mynxcat on Thu Jun 6 14:08:48 2002:

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#13 of 41 by jp2 on Thu Jun 6 14:34:01 2002:

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#14 of 41 by other on Thu Jun 6 14:48:15 2002:

You presume incorrectly.  I was not focusing on strictly correct 
grammatical form (although I unintentionally left out the word 'us,' 
making the form more incorrect than I had planned), but rather on 
conveying the feeling engendered by this item.

BZZZZT!  Incorrect.  Try again some other time.

#15 of 41 by slynne on Thu Jun 6 15:33:56 2002:

Well. Maybe I should write a short bus song.

#16 of 41 by brighn on Thu Jun 6 16:04:12 2002:

BZZZZT! is not a sentence.

#17 of 41 by rcurl on Thu Jun 6 18:47:36 2002:

SENTENCE!

#18 of 41 by brighn on Thu Jun 6 19:36:57 2002:

"SENTENCE!" is not a sentence.

#19 of 41 by jp2 on Thu Jun 6 19:57:58 2002:

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#20 of 41 by oval on Thu Jun 6 20:08:09 2002:

ya, so drop it.

#21 of 41 by jazz on Thu Jun 6 21:44:32 2002:

        It's not a correct sentence in traditional written English, but it's
grammatically correct in colloquial spoken English, which is the sense I
assume it was meant in.

#22 of 41 by jp2 on Fri Jun 7 00:24:34 2002:

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#23 of 41 by jp2 on Fri Jun 7 01:31:37 2002:

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#24 of 41 by jaklumen on Fri Jun 7 08:05:44 2002:

yep, bullies vs. scapes.  That is *so* it.

#25 of 41 by brighn on Fri Jun 7 16:15:11 2002:

#22> I disagree, and has the MA in Linguistics to back up my claim. Your
credentials, sir?

#26 of 41 by jp2 on Fri Jun 7 16:35:49 2002:

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#27 of 41 by brighn on Fri Jun 7 17:54:04 2002:

You interpret incorrectly. The purpose of language is to communicate
effectively, and to identify group membership. Any communicative signals which
do both of those things are correct.

#28 of 41 by md on Fri Jun 7 18:17:45 2002:

Jamie's been brooding over losing the Grex election.  Every once in a 
while his resentment spills over, is all.  He ran as a joke on Grex and 
then got all offended that nobody voted for him.  It's that sort of 
thing that makes him so much fun to have around.

#29 of 41 by brighn on Fri Jun 7 20:09:25 2002:

I'd've voted for him, but (a) I'm not a member and (b) I still have my frontal
lobes.

#30 of 41 by ric on Sat Jun 8 00:34:05 2002:

I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than.. a frontal lobotomy!

#31 of 41 by gelinas on Sat Jun 8 02:57:24 2002:

(Love that song, ric. :)

#32 of 41 by ric on Sat Jun 8 04:30:39 2002:

T-Bone Stankus

#33 of 41 by jp2 on Sat Jun 8 18:47:30 2002:

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#34 of 41 by brighn on Sun Jun 9 00:24:27 2002:

#33> Because, wile an effectively communicated message may include the
message, "I belong to group X" or "I don't belong to group X," this particular
message seems particularly salient in the way people use language, and tends
to be brought up most often as a non-communicative event by people who don't
realize it's a communicative event. It needn't be singled out.

#35 of 41 by jp2 on Sun Jun 9 00:55:33 2002:

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#36 of 41 by brighn on Sun Jun 9 05:29:12 2002:

Well, people like you would think that way...

#37 of 41 by jp2 on Sun Jun 9 05:32:49 2002:

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#38 of 41 by brighn on Sun Jun 9 05:34:28 2002:

If you're going to let that one go, you don't really see my point. The "people
like you" was a joke, in this context...

#39 of 41 by jp2 on Sun Jun 9 05:38:17 2002:

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