Scmuck?

Hi, Paul,

To the TL you wrote:

> Boy I'm a real schmuck.

That made me laugh, even though, like Joseph, I didn't know whether or not you were being sarcastic,
until he asked. I've thought about it for a couple of days. I subscribe to a few lists, and each of
them has one or two "schmucks," or "muggles," if you will. So happens the day after you posted that,
one of the Bible teachers I hear on the radio from time to time mentioned something about people "who
were born in the objective case." I thought that was an apt way to put it. And I don't think it's
really a bad thing. If it weren't for people like you, the rest of us would wander off on
unproductive rabbit trails far more often. You're sort of like human guardrails keeping the rest of
us from careening off into the ditches of sloppy thinking. (Well, some people insist on being stuck
there, but that's not your fault.) It was kind of weird when you were gone from the TL for a while.
Even though Graham and Dave K. were still there, I had this uneasy sense that we were like sheep
without a shepherd. Glad to have you back.

--
David J. Finnamore
Nashville, TN, USA
http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/d/f/dfin/index.html
--

1st grade, 1901:
See Spot. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run!

1st grade, 2001:
C:\spot
C:\spot\run.exe
RUN spot\run.exe

--- In tuning@y..., "David J. Finnamore" <daeron@b...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_22674.html#22674

> [re: Paul Erlich]
>
> If it weren't for people like you, the rest of us would wander
> off on unproductive rabbit trails far more often. You're
> sort of like human guardrails keeping the rest of us from
> careening off into the ditches of sloppy thinking. (Well,
> some people insist on being stuck there, but that's not your
> fault.) It was kind of weird when you were gone from the TL
> for a while. Even though Graham and Dave K. were still there,
> I had this uneasy sense that we were like sheep without a
> shepherd. Glad to have you back.

Yeah, I felt kind of the same way when Paul was gone.

Dan Stearns uses a different metaphor: he calls Paul the
"Tuning Police". So during his absence we posted in a
lawless tuning cyberworld.

PS - Dave, your signature "C:\spot\run.exe" bit is hilarious!

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"