On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 6:46:32 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > llanitedave : > > > Seems the ultimate in irony when a language invented by a Dutchman and > > named after a British comedy troupe gets bogged down in an argument > > about whether its users are sufficiently "American". > > No, the ultimate irony is that people don't understand what is being > talked about. > > Reminds me of a situation decades back when a (Lutheran) Finnish > theology professor was suspected of heresy. It went like this: > > Faithful Crowd: The professor won't accept the truth of the Bible > even though the Bible states it is the word of God. > > Professor: You are saying the Bible is true because it says so. If > that is a valid criterion, the Quran is even more obviously true. > > Faithful Crowd: Did you hear that! The professor's saying the Quran > is truer than the Bible! >
Ha! Ha!! Reminds me of Bertrand Russel's: Man is said to be a logical animal. All my life Ive tried to find evidence of that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list