From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was  Sith and   before
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:08:55 -0400

Ok, I'll make a rare (I think) unsolicited comment. I thought Ted's comment
was pretty funny. But I've been known to miss the funny part of things
myself. Personally, I'd never want to be in a flame war with Ted. He has an
annoying tendency to be both perceptive and accurate. Not always lovable
perhaps...but as curmudgeons go, he's one worthy of respect.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:twhite8 at cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:55 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was Sith and before

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was Sith and before

> At 11:45 AM 6/16/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
>
> >I'm not going to turn this into another long pointless argument.
>
> Glad to hear that...since you apparently can't read very well for
> understanding anyway:
>
> > You're right, Mike:  Sound really *does* travel through space.
>
> I never said that.  If you think I did, please quote where you think that
was.

No, Mike.  It is you who "apparently can't read very well for understanding
anyway."   I will repeat the statement from my first post -- embodied in
what you quoted in your response -- and which I paraphrased in the quote
above:

"People say to me, 'But it was great to see all those neat space fights
onscreen!'  And I agree with them, humoring them the way I will any
deranged person whom I don't wish to excite, saying, 'Yes, and what a
relief to discover that sound really *does* travel through the vacuum of
space.'"

Think about it.

--Ted White