Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:35:36 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nitpicking Tagline Wording (was, Re: Scalzi & Pipe)
From: whitroth at 5-cent.us
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Hello Mark
>
> Although, I suppose I am looking forward with a horrified but
> fascinated paralysis to the next round of discussion (the value of
> individual life right now vs. the protection of society (and
> presumably of individuals within it) in the future)), I must say...
>
I think we'd gotten to where he disagreed with my evidence, and the thread
ended.
>>>>>>> mark wrote:
>>>>>>>  > There are very few hostage situations when you have phasers, and
>>>>>>>  >   set em to stun
>
> This did *not* seem to me to be consistent with most of your other
> taglines.  It seems to say "You mostly set your phasers to kill when
> going in [to end] hostage situations."  The comma makes it more
> ambiguous, I suppose, but it is a HUGE stretch for me to read it as
> "Mostly you don't have phasers, but make sure you set 'em to stun
> if you do."  Very puzzling to me.

Huh? I don't understand how you get that. All I'm saying is that if you
have a weapon that, without causing serious injury, will reliably knock
everyone you point it at out, you can just stun everyone.
>
> P.S.  I intend to completely ignore the more significant and real
> questions of whether there can be a systematic understanding of which
> policy is more likely to achieve its intended result (or both results),
> or whether different hostage situations require different responses
> and how you can tell the difference during the action.  I'm tired of
> reality.  :-) :-) :-)
>
That's ok, this is *not* the Real 21st Century, and I want the *real* one
back RIGHT NOW, thankyouveddymuch.*

> P.P.S.  All will be made clear when we realize that Obama was hatched
> on Mars, and his death panels are best explained by the story "To
> Serve Man," and the fact that the most prized Martian delicacy is
> "Grandma."  Oh yeah, and after Ted Kennedy, the Harlem Boys Choir
> and Mother Teresa's ghost (or was it ACORN, I ferget) planned the
> 9/11 attacks, under the orders of Monica Lewinsky...  Well, you just
> have know the TRUTH; why do so few of us understand?
>
Hey, and here I've been waiting for the next UFO *off* this planet....
(Hey, Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along....)

> P.P.P.S.  My daughter is singing a song about plasma?  Wow!

She figured you'd get a charge out of that.
>
> P.P.P.P.S  Sequitur my ass!

Sequitur, non?

    mark "last words 'r' us"