On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:16, comex <com...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 10:49 -0400, Quazie wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Quazie <quazieno...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> I nominate Murphy as Clerk of the Courts. I pledge that anyone can >>> >> make me accept the nomination of Clerk of the Courts if pigs fly. >>> > >>> > I act on behalf of Quazie to accept eir nomination for Clerk of the >>> > Courts. >>> > >>> > Disclaimer: the above may fail if either ham sandwiches or policemen >>> > on airplanes don't count as "pigs flying". >>> > >>> I CFJ on the following statement "My nomination for Cleck of the >>> Courts has been accepted" >> >> I terminate the above inner-quoted pledge as obsolete; either it does >> something and has been used, in which case it no longer does anything, >> and therefore is obsolete; or it never did anything in the first place, >> in which case it is also obsolete. > > The definition of "pigs fly" may be, e.g., a real pig is flying, not > inside an enclosed vehicle (such as an airplane), but possibly with > other forms of assistance (such as a paraglider). Using such a > definition, "pigs fly" was probably false at the time Wobble purported > to act on behalf of Quazie, but may reasonably become true in the > future. > Didn't this happen just recently? Swine flu?
BobTHJ
