[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-16 Thread authfriend
Is this just narcissism on Barry's part, or does it cross the line into solipsism? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > Look back at this week's posts, Ruth. I carefully > did NOT reply to any of Judy's provocations, and > instead "laid low." (Except for the Starship Any > D

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Not to the argument I'm making, which is about > > double standards. > > I am not the policewoman of the board. Indeed you are not. We all know who is. When drivin

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > snip > > > > > > > > Makes no sense with "bees." > > > > > > Actually it does. Honey and sugar water is used to > > > feed bees and draws them from miles away.

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > snip > > > > > > Makes no sense with "bees." > > > > Actually it does. Honey and sugar water is used to > > feed bees and draws them from miles away. If you > > leave a super unattended with traces of honey it gets > > stripped within

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > Not to the argument I'm making, which is about > > double standards. > > I am not the policewom

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > BTW, the phrase "catching more bees with honey" was a > > > colloquialism where I grew up. I have also heard the > > > "flies" version. No colloquialisms are

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > Not to the argument I'm making, which is about > double standards. > I am not the policewoman of the board. I know that Turq treats you terribly. If I were you

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > BTW, the phrase "catching more bees with honey" was a > > colloquialism where I grew up. I have also heard the > > "flies" version. No colloquialisms are wrong, they > > just are. > > Makes no sense with "bees." > Actually it does

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > (Oh, and it's just me who's poisonous, right? Not > > Barry or Vaj or Sal or Lawson or Curtis or anybody > > else. Sarcasm would be unknown on this forum if > > it we

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > (Oh, and it's just me who's poisonous, right? Not > Barry or Vaj or Sal or Lawson or Curtis or anybody > else. Sarcasm would be unknown on this forum if > it weren't for me. Right, Ruth?) I address the sarcasm addressed to me if I

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-15 Thread authfriend
Finishing up with this from Ruth last week: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > But my point was, and remains, that we need > > to learn to love bats and do what we can to > > protect them. In this instanc

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-14 Thread satvadude108
I sincerely apologize for any derision I may have inadvertently directed, in the past, toward bats. I too have spelunked and know bats to be an important link in the ecosystem. My usage of bat was intended to be the informal dated adjective idiom from the phrase "have bats in the belfry" indicat

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > > Increasingly rabies is t

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > Increasingly rabies is transmitted by bats and most > > > people who get rabies in the US got it fr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread Vaj
On Mar 11, 2009, at 3:52 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: Thank you for your cooperation. Comparing insane people to bats is really unfair to bats. Increasingly rabies is transmitted by bats and most people who get rabies in the US got i

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM, ruthsimplicity > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > I am not so fond of bats. > > > > Bats are a big tourist thing where I live. Mexican bats and birds

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread I am the eternal
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > I am not so fond of bats. > Bats are a big tourist thing where I live. Mexican bats and birds come here for the Winter. There are some places where millions of birds have col

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > Thank you for your cooperation. Comparing insane > > > people to bats is really unfair to bats. > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > Thank you for your cooperation. Comparing insane > > people to bats is really unfair to bats. > > Increasingly rabies is transmitted by bats and most > people who get ra

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > I withdraw my previous rant. > > Oh, and I didn't mention the shit problem, where the bat > guano can hold the spores of histoplasma capsulatum and > give you a pot

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I withdraw my previous rant. Oh, and I didn't mention the shit problem, where the bat guano can hold the spores of histoplasma capsulatum and give you a potentially life threatenting lung disease, histoplasmosis. Another reason to s

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > Thank you for your cooperation. Comparing insane > > people to bats is really unfair to bats. > > Increasingly rabies is transmitted by bats and most people > who get

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > Thank you for your cooperation. Comparing insane > people to bats is really unfair to bats. > Increasingly rabies is transmitted by bats and most people who get rabies in the US got it from a bat bite that most didn't even notice. If

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread enlightened_dawn11
i think what Barry was referring to was that he doesn't like his own old and saggy man-boobs... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > I am writing to protest the use of the term > > "bat-shit insane" when re

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Bat-Shit Insane" -- A Generalized Rant About Language

2009-03-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I am writing to protest the use of the term > "bat-shit insane" when referring to other > posters on this forum, because it is just > not politically correct. I have never, *ever* used the term "bat-shit insane," nor would I. Bats are ou