Re: Hominid Fossils Unearth Clues to Human Origins

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:01:44 -0500 (EST)

"Peter F - for EIMC Internetional Ptd. Lty." <fell_spamtrap_in@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:csrihh$1db8$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
>
> "nurse607" <bbrian2@gmail.com> wrote in message news:csq1t5$uaf$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> > The finding will help scientists piece together the
> > mysterious transformation of the primitive animal into a more human
> > form.
>
> I, annoyed author-inventor of, by their approximativeness optimized,
> acronymic concEPTs such as SHITS [~ for "synaptic specific-style hibernation
> imploring/inducing tardily/trivially to tremendously terrible top-tempo tissue-
> tearing/terrifying traumatizing type stressors/situations",
> and "the actention selection/system", am only using this post to point out that and
> how frequent the word "mysterious" is used as a crappy journalistic trick to thrill
> thick readers and to gain the approval of editors whose first priority is more
> money in the till.
> ;-(
>
> P

Hmmm. While I cannot accuse you of such base pecuniary
motivation, it does occur to me that your terminology
serves to make your postings somewhat attractively mysterious.

I, for example, have occasionally been sufficiently thick so as
to give your posts more attention than they deserve simply
due to the desire to solve the mystery of what you actually
mean.