Re: Uncle Al has Asperger's syndrome

jpopelish_at_rica.net
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 09:34:02 -0800

Edward Green wrote:
> John Popelish wrote:
> > But that doesn't answer the question.
> > It only changes it to what does, "May God bless America" mean?
>
> John, it is patently obvious and transparently evident to the most
> casual observer here that you are playing a particular game here --
> viz., the one where respondent asks a question about subject matter
> sufficiently inexact that any plausible answer may be attacked ad
> infinitum on an indefinitely large number of grounds. One places the
> bait, waits for a response, and pounces. A 500 page thesis on the
> history and intepretation of this simple catch phrase would no doubt
> fail to satisfy you -- though it might shut you up.
>
> I don't think you are a troll in the Usenet sense, but you have
simply
> imported a common piece of trollery known since before there were
> trolls as we know them -- one you have no doubt sprung on many flesh
> and blood indidivduals at cocktail parties and department teas,
> whatever your version of the chatty social encounter may be.
>
> As you well know the subject phrase is a simply a trite human
utterance
> in natural language, for which you just as well as I or the next
person
> may analyze the likely cognitive and affective antecedents.
>
> Your remark that all you have got is "snow" is particularly weak --
> both from the ambiguity surrounding your characterization, and your
own
> certain self-knowledge that what you likely mean is the only kind of
> answer it is possible to give, assymptotically tending to the 500
page
> thesis -- better make that 1500 with footnotes -- which at least
> exhausts third and forth order (though not higher) nuances, as well
as
> the reader. I guess that the purpose of scholarship: to kill foolish
> questions by exhaustion.
>
> You, sir, are being silly.

Your blather on the topic was like much of the snow I had received up
until this thread.

Fortunately for me, another repondent answered my question, quite
satisfactorily.
I had grown up hearing this expression but no one ever explained its
basis, till after I asked, here. 

-- 
John Popelish
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