--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
<snip>
> > And I suggest to you that you frequently seem
> > to have difficulty interpreting plain English when
> > it's saying something you don't want to accept.
> > 
> > A "good" publicity stunt is a successful one.  A
> > "successful" publicity stunt is one that gets--
> > wait for it!--a lot of publicity.
> > 
> > This stunt got a lot of publicity.  You concede it
> > was imaginative.  Therefore, it was a good
> > publicity stunt, imaginative and quite successful.
> 
> then according to you "Nurenberg" and the 1936 Olympic Games were 
> good publicity stunts and very, very successful.

If you consider them publicity stunts and they got
a lot of publicity, then, as publicity stunts, yes,
indeed, they were good publicity and very, very
successful.

> Sad.

Not.  A matter of the plain meaning of English
words.  Sorry you can't deal with that.





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