On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:44:43 -0400, Kevin Gowen  ...
>
>John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>> 
>>> There were other, much smaller Mom and Pop sentou in Matsusaka, but I
>>> only went to Matsusaka no Yu. It had video games and katsu curry. How
>>> could I refuse?
>> 
>> Didn't know you had such plebian tastes!
>> 
>>> > Still, never mind all that, what matters is that you're still out there
>>> > at the age of - what, thirty or so? - being a "scalawag".
>>>
>>> Not thirty just yet. What can I say? I'm whimsical.
>>>
>>> > There's a good old boy!
>>>
>>> It's fun. I'd go cuckoo, otherwise.
>> 
>> If you're pushing thirty and still being a "scalawag" you must have already
>> *gone* cuckoo. But it's OK. As long as you don't *know* you've gone cuckoo
>> you can continue to simulate normal functioning. My telling you this won't
>> upset the apple cart, since you already discount anything I say as
>> meaningless (it's part of being cuckoo).
>
>No, I only dismiss things you say that only find their support on the 
>web pages of the Socialist Club of the World (or whatever it is called) 
>and other such crackpots.
>
>>> "I like old Joe. Joe is a good old boy" (Truman on Stalin)
>> 
>> I fixed this. What Harry Truman *actually* said shouldn't be allowed to
>> stand in the way of what he *should have said.
>
>Hmm. http://tinyurl.com/kv8t gets zero hits, as does a Lexis search, but 
>I do not doubt your superior knowledge of complimentary remarks made 
>about your Communist heroes. However, the quote stays as it is until I 
>find confirmation of your version.
>
>I took the quote from the Times's obituary for Stalin, "Obituary: Stalin 
>Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia into Mighty Socialist 
>State" (March 6, 1953) (ooh! mighty!)

and how exactly did you stumble across that? Let me guess, after reading it in,
say Anne Coulter's book, you did a google search to come up with a better place
to cite it as a reference?


>-- 
>Kevin Gowen
>"I like old Joe. Joe is a decent fellow,"
>  - U.S. President Harry S Truman, as President speaking for all
> US Postal Worders by saying about Stalin what he should have said
> about McCarthy
>

(that McCarthy is a prisoner of the Politburo?)

Isn't it correct to include ellipses when you omit part of a sentence?
thus
"I like old Joe. Joe is a decent fellow, ...  "








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