Re: [LUG] The Gadget Show

[trewornan <trewornan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Too true! This sort of misunderstanding happens all
the time on sites like slashdot. To the extent that I
avoid sarcasm entirely when posting to a board or
sending email.

In fact anyone who doesn't is an ignorant b******d.

Emoticons can help tip off those less able to read
between the lines :-)

--- Ben Goodger <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ASCII is not a good medium for emotions and
> expression.
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:38:47 +0000, Terence McCarthy
> <tjmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:08:19 +0000
> > Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:23 +0000, Terence
> McCarthy wrote:
> > > > Yes, it's sad, isn't it? Those who know about
> Linux so often are too ignorant or stupid to call it
> GNU/Linux.
> > > > Still, carry on with the evangelising I say.
> > > >
> > > > Terence
> > >
> > > I would like to disagree with your assertion
> that I am either ignorant
> > > or stupid because I don't call it GNU/Linux. 
> Quite frankly, going round
> > > calling people names because they don't happen
> to subscribe to using the
> > > same name for something as you do is pretty
> ignorant.
> > >
> >
> > I can cheerfully admit to being ignorant (of a lot
> of things, actually) but perhaps I was expecting too
> much from the list readership and/or being silly in
> not labelling my previous post "sarcasm" in
> capitals, so that my real intention was b*****
> obvious to everyone.
> > I shall do so in future.
> >
> > Terence
> >
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