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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:33:27 +0200
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: Re: Re: re "res"


I wrote:

>If the judge is serious, I'd rather have Justin defending me. If the judge
>is a Rotary, Reader's Digest Republican, I'd rather have Charles do the
>job.

and Charles replied:

>   Oh well, guess things have gone to insult. Even a veiled death wish.

It wasn't intended as an insult. More indicating a personal preference --
horses for courses. Caparisons are odorous. Perhaps I should have written
"conservative and conventional" instead of "Rotary, Reader's Digest
Republican".

I then wrote:

>That is if I didn't kill myself vomiting during the trial.

This was a bit strong, and I suppose it could be taken as insulting to
Charles by implication. It was provoked by the double lightheadedness of
Charles's apparent insult to Justin's legal capacity and boosting of his
own together with an apparently total disregard for language.

If there was ironic intent on Charles's part it was unclear -- this list
requires so much explicitness in matters of irony that it's hardly worth
bothering to use it.

Cheers,

Hugh







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