Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 5, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Peter wrote: Angela, didn't the reference to being turned into a newt trigger your funny bone meter? Angela's from Germany, Peter. They do things like that over there all the time. Sal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Angela Mailander
Of course it did. I was being duped until I got to the newt. --- Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Angela, didn't the reference to being turned into a > newt trigger your funny bone meter? > > > --- Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You're right--jokes and ironies need signi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Peter
--- hugheshugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > --- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Rick, > > > > > > nice discussion. > > > Good points raised. > > > > > > But really: > > > Guy Fawkes Da

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of hermandan0 > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:30 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" > Schiffgens identified as >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Peter
Angela, didn't the reference to being turned into a newt trigger your funny bone meter? --- Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right--jokes and ironies need significant > linguistic or contextual signals that can easily be > pointed to. If you haven't really done that and > th

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hermandan0 Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:30 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent --- In HYPERLINK "mailto:FairfieldLife%40ya

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Angela Mailander
You're right--jokes and ironies need significant linguistic or contextual signals that can easily be pointed to. If you haven't really done that and then claim afterwards that we were all supposed to have gotten it, or we're more stupefied than you are, you'll come off as lame, disingenuous and me

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Vaj
On May 5, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Rick Archer wrote: And you are from Sweden. Without doubt. That's why you can't levitate. Everyone knows Swedes can't levitate. So that's the truth! That's why they have reindeer silly.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Rick Archer
Höjööh Rick, my friend Peter from Sweden solved it for me: You can post that , if you like In my world there is a lot of people, each having their own view of what's going on. I think it's built in, that we all have different opinions and ideas. Of course someone thinks this or that, and som

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Vaj
On May 4, 2008, at 2:10 AM, hugheshugo wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "go take a header into a cesspool you ugly spirited prick" And from the very same sentence: "at least I cultured my nervous system to nurture and retain and expand my

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-05 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rick, > > nice discussion. > Good points raised. > > But really: > Guy Fawkes Day is Nov 5th. > And Aprils Fools Day is April 1st. > > So the guy sending this blame against > Raja Emanuel definitely has something > against him. > > It would be

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-04 Thread Angela Mailander
Strictly speaking, we all should have known that it was a joke when the guy was referred to as "Raja" in the first sentence and without quotation marks. Reuters would have used only the guy's first and last names. I don't think serious damage was intended. If there had been such intent, the jo

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-04 Thread Rick Archer
Hi Rick, nice discussion. Good points raised. But really: Guy Fawkes Day is Nov 5th. And Aprils Fools Day is April 1st. So the guy sending this blame against Raja Emanuel definitely has something against him. It would be nice to ask this "Guy Fawkes" to identify himself and state his real inte

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 4, 2008, at 12:30 PM, new.morning wrote: MAD -- M. Ayurvedic Depends. "For when you are so absorbed in God, that you just don't give a crap". Now that's what I call thinking outside the package. You're on a roll, new. Sal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-04 Thread Angela Mailander
That's a misunderstanding of the Now. It contains all of the past and all of the future. Otherwise, Alzheimer's would be enlightenment. --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Edg is a putz, and I real

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 4, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Duveyoung wrote: My lashing out is a set of words on message boards -- that's my sublimation -- I don't drive fast, drink to excess, chew my fingernails, have insomnia, sic the snow-cops my shit-head neighbor who never once shoveled his walk in the worse winter of all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-03 Thread Angela Mailander
You mean the newt wasn't a dead give-away? --- Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the time one gets to the end of the piece, it is > painfully obvious > that we've been duped "just enough" to make the > thing "real" to TMers > and grab them only to then dump them into their own > pile of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-03 Thread Peter
--- dhamiltony2k5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear Rick, you should be careful, who is posting > what. > > > > I think, the message with the number 175 678, > > stating, that Raja Emanuel was caught as an B

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-03 Thread Angela Mailander
Off, that's the post of the week. Deep bow. --- off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You forgot to mention that Professor Van Dyke of > Amsterdam is the > brother of Dick Van Dyke, who played the nutty > professor in Chitty > Chitty Bang Bang, and the Old Excentric Grandfather > in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking news : "Raja" Schiffgens identified as government agent

2008-05-03 Thread Angela Mailander
Give poor Joerg a break. He's German. We are highly serious people. --- hermandan0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange too, that some folks see humor as hate. > What's that saying > again? Oh yeah -- knowledge is structured in > consciousness! > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "h