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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:53:41 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:41:24 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:59:41 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:41:39 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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Nick Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:47:39 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:52:03 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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Nick Cooper wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:17:10 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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Nick Cooper wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:09:06 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
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thoss wrote:
So film director John Woo has been anointed a saint
and
had a station named after him?

The station predates the film industry.

Clearly your grasp of history is almost as
non-existent as
your sense of humour....

On this particular occasion in direct inverse
proportion to
your sense of self-importance perhaps?

Or you're inability to accept that you were in error,
perhaps?

When you've learnt to read and write English feel free
to
raise the subject
again.

Well, **** me, but obviously I've conned all those
editors and
publishers who've paid for my writing in the past!
Still, I
think a bit of bad editing when I changed what I first
started
to type pales into insignificance compared to your
stunning
belief that the film industry didn't exist before 1939.

It's true some people are easily misled, but I'd be
interested
to know how you arrive at the conclusion that I believe
that
there was no film industry before 1939.

The station - which you said "predates the film industry" -
dates from 1939.

So are you saying that there was no St. John's Wood station
before that date?

No, but then the station under discussion is the
Jubilee/ex-Bakerloo one. You said "the station predates the
film
industry," not "the station _name_ predates the film
industry."

So it's OK for you to make a mistake but no one else, is that
what
you're saying?

Your entire posting was based on a mistake. That's somewhat
different from making a minor editing error in any otherwise
valid
observation.

If only your observation had been valid this pointless sub
thread
wouldn't have happened.

I hadn't pointed out your error initially, you mean?

Is there any point to this?

I don't know - you're the one who went off on one when your error
was
pointed out.


A) I made a riposte, I didn't go "off on one".
B) Since that riposte wasn't directed at you why did you feel the
need to
intervene?

You started waffling on about "self-importance," whilst simultaneously
compounding you original error by sticking to it, as well as furthur
proving your lack of a sense of humour. That's a pretty good impression
of losing it, even if you don't think you did.

I'm curious, though, to know how anyone could have pointed out your
error in a way that might have provoked a different reaction from you.
If, for example, I had said, "The station does not predate the film
industry, because it dates from 1939," how would you have reacted?

As to your apparent lack of a sense of humour, basically getting on
your high-horse to begin was is a pretty good indicator. Most jokes
don't bear close examination, but maybe when someone starts with, "This
penguin goes into a pub and asks for a pint...." you _do_ start
objecting to the liklihood of flightless birds drinking beer, let alone
being able to speak....