[OT] pun/counterpun (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:

>       cute, cuter, cutest ...
>       you're surely t' best.
>
>       [further comments below]
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
> >        you took all my puns away ...
> > >
> >
> > just doing humanity a service.
>
>
>       [http://www.thepunalsorises.com/]
>
> >            I haven't any more; but ne'er fear,
> > >           the punster will re-appear  ;-)
> >
> > we are armed.
Tom Jefferson complained in 1787 about all the punning going on at the 
Consitutional convention in Philadelphia; I think he struck the right 
note when he wrote to Abigail Adams:

"The people at large view every object only as it may furnish puns and 
bon mots; and I pronounce that a good punster would disarm the whole 
nation were they ever so seriously disposed to revolt.”

>       ["... to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end
> them" yet I've punned with the best of 'em, ne'er taken yet  ;-) ]

watch out lest you be outpunned.

(btw I don't buy Pollack's theory. quote from Jefferson from 
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2011/05/bonfire_of_the_hannities029811.php>)

> [...]
> > I think the 'r' stands for 'remote' but I don't know; the source doesn't
> > need to be 'remote' though. I just backed up one older external drive I
> > have (was making funny noises) to another newer one.
>
>       [funny noises, eh ... maybe it was speaking to you in its own
> language  ;-) ]

yeah, only I was the one making the noises.

F.

> > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
> > >
> > > >        rsync  ???
> > > >
> > > > >       I think i are sinking fast ...
> > > > >
> > > > > sink  vb sinks, sinking, sank ; sunk, sunken
> > > > you are probably just joshing around but 'sync' has nothing to do with
> > > > 'sink'; one is germanic, the other is greek.
> > > >
> > > > 'syn'+'chronos' as in 'synchronize'.
> > > >
> > > > sometimes the spelling of words, like the syntax of directory paths,
> > > > matters.
> > > >
> > > > (and 'syntax' has nothing to do with 'sin' or 'taxes'!)
> > > >
> > > > 'rsync' is a great utility; I assume it's available for Windows but I
> > > > don't know but there's certainly equivalent stuff.
> > > >
> > > > Felmon Davis

--
Felmon Davis

It's better that we disagree than be in agreement and all be wrong.  -- Kahn
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