Re: [cobalt-users] Buy/Sell list ?

[Jay Kraft <jkraft@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Butch up, Carrie!
But for the Grace of God ...

At 06:03 PM 03/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>> > Good forbid you should ask. Half these morons think offering cobalt
>> > equipment to the forum is spam but
>
>Being the moron that I am, I'd like to direct your attention to the last
>word quoted there... "but".
>"But", when used without a second 't', denotes that everything the person
>just said is completely negated. The true purpose of the word is to draw
>attention to what comes after it; so usually what comes before it is nothing
>more than a self-serving attack meant to somehow further support the
>person's opinion in an indirect, negative approach.
>The negativity here being that we're morons, the part that's supposed to be
>wiped from memory being that "offering cobalt equipment to the forum is
>spam".
>
>Being someone who sometimes has money to spend, I avoid at all costs any
>company/person who has interrupted my privacy and assumed that I wanted to
>read their advertisement. I get bombarded with advertisements every time I
>leave my house or turn on the radio or tv... I don't need it in my inbox.
>The companies/people who respect that simple little thing - my privacy - are
>the ones who get my money.
>
>But then again, I'm just a moron.
>Which leads me to a curiosity - if we're such morons, why art thou still
>here? I don't make it a habit to suffer (whom I consider to be) idiots; I'd
>think any self-respecting intelligent person would feel the same way.
>
>CarrieB
>
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