Naah, that gets old after a while. Matt is right.

Post #217,175 by CRConrad 8/3/05 7:41:46 AM Reply	Naah, that gets old after a while. Matt is right. It actually, really, truly wouldn't hurt if Ash could learn to fucking write so ordinary people can understand what the fuck he's trying to say. The alternative, I'm afraid, would be that he'll have to accept that an ever-growing number of his audience will suspect that he's not so much genuinely brilliant as, rather, an Emperor clad in "exquisite verbi-plumage that can only be understood by the select few"... IOW, a driveler of near-Boxleian proportions. Personally, the more tired I get of having to wade through the convolutions, the more rapidly I'm moving in that direction. I'm at least about half-way there. For which Ash has nobody to blame but himself. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #217,183 by mmoffitt 8/3/05 9:42:38 AM Reply	Et tu, Christian? Ashton should definitely not change his style of writing in order to make the bit wise thinking more likely to comprehend. We're all (mostly) bit twidlers of one stripe or another here and it is because we are that his posts are most needed here. For, in our everyday endeavors to read the most recent how-to, kb article, tech rag or similar journal [SIC] many of us will only come upon a well written paragraph by viewing Ashton's posts. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #217,377 by pwhysall 8/4/05 1:47:35 AM Reply	Werd When all you are to me is a box (sorry, Box) with text in it, clarity is everything. Ashton is so painfully clever that most of the time, his posts are just so much verbal compost. If you can't tell whether it's genius or fuckwittery, that's a problem. He can write however he likes, of course; the corollary to that is that people can choose to disregard what he says. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #217,506 by Ashton 8/4/05 3:10:38 PM Reply	Oooh. another IBB Intercostal Brevity Boycott. (or is that just a p\ufffdan to Captain Clarity?) Efficiency-container-box runneth over: Deviant; uncompressed. Check Un-obvious surds. Check ( Un-yay: word needs a look-up table event.) Un-abbreviated; Error. Check. Meet Standards/Not. Check. (or, maybe just M/Soft) Simple-declaratory/Not. Check. Must. practice. write. .tgz .zip. Must Remember admonitions of local Principal of Peter Principle (Gratuitous italics. Check.) CarnegieHall/Get-to/How ? Practice \ufffd 3 Nope, box too big. To Fleet Headquarters: Saw sub. Sank same. Sub #N 666, Pacific Theatre Nope, verbose. ... ... To Headquarters: Won! They lost. Sub #N-666 (Better; still un-woo) HQ:Still here/SubN666 It./Got Oh, wait: It./Stuff ie H.ave A. N.ice D.ay
Post #217,513 by Another Scott 8/4/05 3:18:44 PM Reply	Ha! :-) Your sub story reminds me of the (supposedly) shortest Broadway review in the NY Times. For the play "Bang!". The review? Ouch! Cheers, Scott. (IIRC. It's listed in the GBoWR.)
Post #217,527 by Ashton 8/4/05 3:45:22 PM Reply	{guf (gotta keep it short, 'midst the Syll\ufffdble Patrol) -faw}
Post #217,530 by Another Scott 8/4/05 3:47:14 PM Reply	ICLRPD (new thread) Created as new thread #217529 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=217529\|ICLRPD]

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