Vote Yes Or No

Discussion in 'Politics' started by FasterPussycat, Aug 24, 2002.

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  1. Pabst

    Pabst

    Faster I vote a resounding yes. SE was needlessly maligned. Post him right now on that Bread and Butter thread.
     
    #31     Aug 25, 2002
  2. jem

    jem

    If super ego comes back and he requests protection---I vow to get an alternative handle and be his number one defender taking on all detractors to the best of my ability. I will be Super ID (iot)
     
    #32     Aug 25, 2002
  3. metooxx,

    I was trying to figure out what darkhorse meant....when he said that his vote was "mu" then said it look it up, it's japanese.

    plumlazy
     
    #33     Aug 25, 2002
  4. I just figured he could not spell ...
     
    #34     Aug 25, 2002
  5. Magna

    Magna Administrator

    Oh Yes, Oh Yes FasterPussycat (wink, wink), gee I sure hope that somehow, someway, you'll be able to contact Super-Ego (wink, wink). I hope he hasn't gone far, far away (wink, wink). We need him back to liven things up and counter the stale bs that floats around a few of these threads. Please tell us that you'll be able to conjure him up from the abyss (wink, wink).... :cool:
     
    #35     Aug 25, 2002
  6. Well I did some more looking and MU is the ticker symbol for Micron. :D But that isn't japanese.
     
    #36     Aug 25, 2002
  7. mu /moo/

    The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word `mu' is actually from Chinese, meaning `nothing'; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense.

    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/mu.html
     
    #37     Aug 25, 2002
  8. nitro

    nitro

    This post is a lie.

    nitro

    Or, I am a cretin.
    All cretins are liars.
     
    #38     Aug 25, 2002
  9. cretin /kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ n.

    Congenital loser; an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right. It has been observed that many American hackers tend to favor the British pronunciation /kret'in/ over standard American /kree'tn/; it is thought this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/cretin.html
     
    #39     Aug 25, 2002
  10. nitro

    nitro

    Faster,

    Is there any way that we can ask Brother Protrader1 to come back?

    nitro
     
    #40     Aug 25, 2002
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