Ha, Shahrukh, brilliant posting. And of your best ever in your function as moderator of the list! Congrats!
Here's a little link I received this morning which hopefully makes you all chear up again (on tango matters!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=6QaSJAbc2mg Enjoy! Christian . -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:40:05 -0200 > Von: Shahrukh Merchant <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Tango-L] Shocked > Klaus Radek <[email protected]> wrote: > > shocked a little even, to see how unrespectful people were to Damian > > (Nougts) - even to making him leave here!. I can tell you he is a > ... rest of much-discussed post deleted. > > "Michael" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The moderator should the originator and "his sister" off the list. > > (I assume the missing word was "kick" or "throw" ...). I was puzzled at > that, since the reason appeared to be (echoed by a few others) his > "crime" of the use of irony (as they used to call it), without using a > smiley (also as they used to call it before it became "emoticon"). I'd > be more likely to defend it as a fast-fading art form (perhaps even in > the same category as the cabeceo). > > But he (Michael) later clarified: > > I thnk you're missing an important point. Klaus named a dancer by > > name, Damian (Noughts), and described his dancing. > > And that indeed does justify a slap on the wrist, more so because Mr. > Noughts (reports of whose departure from Tango-L seem to have been > greatly exaggerated) appears to teach professionally, and this may be a > back-door attempt at mud-slinging rivalry. Please consider your wrist > slapped--no, not you Damian, but Klaus--but keep up the irony, if you > can do without maligning others, and it may help to include a smiley, > even if it takes away half the fun ... oops almost forgot to include a > :-). > > So lighten up everybody, study up on rhetorical devices (I'll study up > on run-on sentences and their avoidance), make sure to include some > Tango content in each of your posts (administrator is exempt, though > hey, I did mention "cabeceo" ...), and PLEASE DELETE ALL THE PREVIOUS > TRAILING THREAD IN YOUR REPLIES (oops, sorry, didn't mean to shout). > > Shahrukh > _______________________________________________ -- . Computer Bild Tarifsieger! GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 17,95 ¿/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
