On Aug 26, 2:27 am, %ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

> > > Still here, watching you spin and spin and spin and spin . . .
>
> > I always thought that the phrase "Twisting slowly, slowly in the
> > wind." had a certain picturesque ring to it.....and it certainly seems
> > fitting in this case.
>
> > Anybody got a gibbet?
>
> Gibbet's don't "twist slowly in the wind" since they tend to be attached
> by a short series of links to the gibbet post. They may sway in the
> wind, but twisting is a degree of freedom denied to them.

"Oh, baby, you are *so* talented! And they are *SO* dumb!"

-Cleavon Little to himself in "Blazing Saddles".

(Hint: When you fail to understand what commonly hangs from a gibbet
and "twists slowly in the wind" -and then try to make fun of another
poster because *you* didn't understand the allusion- you aren't making
*him* look bad.)

> I though you were a genius, fucktrousers?

Well, I can spell "thought".

> Yet every time you open your
> gob to declaim, you end up inserting your foot in the orifice. Does that
> explain why your voice is muffled when you sit down?

Poor sad little jealous Brit. Your eglatatian idea that anyone who
dares to stand above the crowd should be cut down to size is one that
doesn't fly here in the States: ask any of the hundreds of thousands
of talented folks from Britain who emigrated over here, where we
admire and reward those who are well above average, and don't put up
with bullshit like class limitations on how far you're allowed to rise
in society or on the pay-scale. (And those Brits have almost
universally done quite well here, thank you.)

The fact that your social, political, and taxation systems have chased
*huge* numbers of your best and brightest to other lands where they
can acheive their potential without limits -provided only that they're
willing to work hard- largely accounts for the position you now find
yourselves in: I.E. a country that doesn't work very well since most
of it's smart folks left.

So rave on, little man. Nobody with more than three functioning
neurons cares what you think or say, and unless you can come up with
something a lot more sensible -or even just plain more entertaining-
than you have so far, I doubt I'll even bother to read your posts.

in 142596 20080826 213635 Twibil  wrote:

>Well, I can spell "thought".

>Poor sad little jealous Brit. Your eglatatian idea that anyone who
>dares to stand above the crowd should be cut down to size is one that
>doesn't fly here in the States: ask any of the hundreds of thousands
>of talented folks from Britain who emigrated over here, where we
>admire and reward those who are well above average, and don't put up
>with bullshit like class limitations on how far you're allowed to rise
>in society or on the pay-scale. (And those Brits have almost
>universally done quite well here, thank you.)
>
>The fact that your social, political, and taxation systems have chased
>*huge* numbers of your best and brightest to other lands where they
>can acheive their potential without limits -provided only that they're
>willing to work hard- largely accounts for the position you now find
>yourselves in: I.E. a country that doesn't work very well since most
>of it's smart folks left.

Maybe you can spell "thought" but I can see a few words you can't spell.
Punctuation is poor as well.