Whoo!!! (hang about)

[Tony Court]

----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Stevens <pianotun@globalfreeway.com.au>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:45 PM
Subject: Whoo!!! (hang about)


> List....... I think we have a RING IN HERE, this dude sounds to be too
much
> at the cutting edge to be a ornery "Piano Tooner.....or....maybe the
dreaded
> "Tuned too many Pianos " disease has finally got him.
> Robin (Aussie)
> (Jim wrote)
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> Ah Rob!
>  Not only are you an insensitive brute, ethnically speaking, but.... but
NOW
> you are mixing your "doohickeys" and "thingees".  You in fact did NOT say
> "@&%#%!!" what you said was ,"@&%#%*!!", which is an entirely different
> thingee,..... that is entirely different doohickey for Dave. :-)  Now to a
> world class PC expert the "*" being circular,indicates a global reference,
> i.e., ALL of anything...in the instant case the interpretation could be
that
> 'ALL Chinese pianos are "@&%#%!!" and since you said it..ergo you said
ALL.
>   OK? got that?
>  Now the fact that you also used the noun form/indefinite article "a",
which
> is definitely a limiter in scope, in conjunction with the immediately
> following pronoun/adjective, "this" which is a specific identifier, shall
> not
> be an excuse for your gross insensitivity.
>  We shall read what we read rather than read what you wrote ....it has
ever
> been thus and thus shall ever be Butterfly...said another way.... It ain't
> yo
> problem Rob.
>
> Cept of course y'all gonna have to retract yo "no retraction" statement
> cause
> you din said what yu'ns said you said....right? :-)
> Jim Bryant (FL)
>
> Hi
'scuse me being english and all, but what exactly is a RING IN??
Who on this list is sufficiently far away from the cutting edge to qualify
as a "ornery tooner"!!
Thingees I grew up with, although we called them thingies back then, and I
must admit, "doohickies" have a certain RING about them, I could get fond of
those!
Chinese pianos come and go, but I have seen some rather pleasing examples,
and I have seen some indifferent Steinways and Bosendorfers!
>From here on in maaan the tech list has become an art form! Of course we
read what we read rather than what is written. It's the nature of art that
once created, it's beyond the artist to control the interpretation of the
veiwer. The point of art is to challenge the dominant mode of perception,
and hopefully give a little pleasure on the way!
So......... I can't work out what Rob's problem is...........perhaps he
hasn't got one........LUCKY MAN :-)
Who knows wether we say what we mean, or mean what we say, or wether there
is a dominant interpretation of a retraction, and when is a retraction in a
state of completion.................
Woops! I've noticed one or two very definite articles in here that could be
interpreted ...........globally  "*"
Regards
Tony.
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