Cobol - Re: The Irish Problem

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Re: The Irish Problem

dashwood@enternet.co.nz

2005-05-06, 8:55 am

I have had problems posting this message on two different servers. This
copy is coming from the gOOGLE groups server. I can only apologise to
the forum as a whole if the message is duplicated (or...more likely...
triplicated.)

"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote
> Pete Dashwood wrote:
> What a drag. I eventually got the search technique I was after. What
did
> you search on 'Cromwell' or 'Irish' ? As regards 'Irish' many years
ago,
> as an Irish lady used to say in Portsmouth 'There's milluns of 'em
!".
> Even old buddies like Judson and Ken Foskey, Liam etc., were making
> references to the 'Irish' back in '95/'96.
>
> Frankly got fed up looking. Which means of course I didn't find the
> source that I was looking for, so now, without hesitation
>
> I OWE YOU ONE BIG APOLOGY

Yes, you do. And you haven't made it.
(Owing somebody 10 bucks is not the same as giving them 10 bucks.)

I don't want your apology, I want you to behave better.

We all make mistakes, and misunderstandings sometimes happen. People of
Goodwill resolve these things by admitting the possibility of error and
s

ing to make it right, checking the facts on both sides, not by
s

ing
to reinforce their own wrong position because they could not possibly
be in
error. (And you think I'M arrogant...)

You have no idea how hurtful your action was to me.

Here's the deal...(exactly as before):

"How would you feel if I totally misconstrued something YOU said then
quoted
it, with my own spin, as being YOUR words?

You owe me an apology, but I neither demand one, nor want one from you.

Instead, in future, either:

1. If you wish to comment on my posts, quote them and address your
comments
to the quote.
OR
2. Just leave me out. There are thousands of posts here; you can live
without commenting on mine."

I would prefer you take the latter option, but if you really want to
comment on something I said, confine yourself to option 1.

You get some credit for posting this; I know it is not easy for you to
say
'sorry' or admit the possibility of being wrong. It is not my intention
to
rub your nose in it and I derive no pleasure from this.

It won't happen again, because I really have no desire to correspond
further with
you.

I don't have a 'hit list'. But there are people who I prefer not to be
around.

Pete.
<snipped long list of justifications, prefaced with 'no excuses,
but'...>

docdwarf@panix.com

2005-05-06, 8:55 am

In article <1115371404.493823.301950@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:

[snip]

>I don't want your apology, I want you to behave better.

As my Sainted Paternal Grandfather - may he sleep with the angels! - used
to say, ''Sorry' don't get the cows milked'... perhaps this might be seen
as a variant of the Hebrew 'acta, non verba'.

DD

Pete Dashwood

2005-05-06, 3:55 pm

<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:d5fjqu$h8g$1@panix5.panix.com...
> In article <1115371404.493823.301950@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> As my Sainted Paternal Grandfather - may he sleep with the angels! - used
> to say, ''Sorry' don't get the cows milked'... perhaps this might be seen
> as a variant of the Hebrew 'acta, non verba'.
>
> DD
>

Hebrew, huh? :-)

Pete.

docdwarf@panix.com

2005-05-06, 3:55 pm

In article <3e13t2Fl3v7U1@individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
><docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:d5fjqu$h8g$1@panix5.panix.com...
>
>Hebrew, huh? :-)

Pardon my sloppiness... that should have read '... a variant of the
ancient Hebrews' invoking of 'acta...''.

DD

docdwarf@panix.com

2005-05-09, 8:55 am

Pete Dashwood

2005-05-10, 8:55 pm

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