Re: What is the Result from Invoking this Halt Function?

From: Acme Diagnostics (LFinezapthis_at_partpostmark.net)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: 22 Aug 2004 08:17:47 -0500

"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
>">parr\(*>" <LauryKing@BTInternetnospam.com> wrote:
>> "David C. Ullrich" <ullrich@math.okstate.edu> wrote:
>>> hgtohybtml@mailinator.com (Student) | wrote:
>
>[about:]
>>>> "Peter Olcott" <olcott@worldnet.att.net>
>
>>>> You have to be a troll. There is no way that
>>>> anybody can be this stupid.
>
>You really need to read Peter's entire output over
>six or more years on Usenet before jumping to such a
>conclusion prematurely. "Being Peter Olcott" is at
>least one situation that makes the feat possible.
>
>>> you may be right. but you're clearly new here -
>>> hang out on the internet for a while and you'll
>>> learn that there's simply no such thing as 'so
>>> stupid nobody could believe it'
>
>Or perhaps:
>Usenet tests the absolute limits of human
>stupidity, and fails to encounter any.
>
>> Which reminds me of:
>
>> The difference between genius and stupidity is
>> that genius has its limits. [Einstein]
>
>> But being even-handed, I have to provide Peter
>> with:
>
>> Great Spirits have always encountered violent
>> opposition from mediocre minds. [Einstein]
>
>Well, if we're starting a game of dueling quotes
>pertinent to the Peter Olcott infestation:
>
>When you argue with a fool, chances are he is doing
>just the same.
> -- Mati Meron <meron@cars.uchicago.edu>
>
> A fool better left unnamed droned:
> A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
>
> xanthian, responding in a 2001/04/25 posting:
> Unfortunately, so is the fool mocked by
> wise men, and the text of the mockery
> is often identical, for neither do
> fools have use of originality to mock
> the wise, nor yet do the wise waste
> originality mocking fools.
>

Larry: Fish is brain food!
Moe: Then you better fish for a whale.

Larry
Hey, wait a minute...!

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