Boris, Don't worry, it's a reference you are missing. The 'fart' business is from Monty Python comedy sketches 20+ years ago. They were marvelous TV created in the UK and imported/exported around the world. There is quite a group of followers on this list. The comedy was witty and irreverent, Brits poking fun at themselves, and the Roman Catholic Inquisition. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Jostein, if one takes all the time and trouble to describe the specifics of > one's fart towards me, it obviously may indicate that they are full of some > serious resentment toward my person. It is as if they would have hit me in > the face, but since I am so many miles of internet plumbing away from them, > they let their resentment through to me by that careful description of > angle, speed or whatever details of that fart they put in there. > > On 2/23/2011 3:24 PM, AlunFoto wrote: >> >> Boris, I think some of the success of the symbolic emoticons is the >> very fact that they are not razorblade accurate. >> >> Next thing you know, someone will insert >> >> /Gut gass outlet -> {degrees off compass North} / >> >> instead of "I fart in your general direction". >> >> You have to ask yourself if that is really an improvement. >> >> Jostein >> >> >> 2011/2/23 Boris Liberman<[email protected]>: >>> >>> On 2/23/2011 2:57 PM, David Parsons wrote: >>>> >>>> If someone wants to misconstrue what you have typed, emoticons won't >>>> really help. >>> >>> Absolutely. But I want to eliminate or minimize the situation where the >>> miscontrue-ment wasn't on purpose but merely because of misunderstanding >>> or >>> misuse of language. Latter happening usually on my part. >>> >>> Boris >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
