#2 joe rorke | 2006-08-25 17:41
Bob, My eyes are not what they used to be. I don't have your tenacity. I don't want to work too hard. I want to read what you have to say but I don't want to have to struggle through it because of serious misspelling. When I write to you and to the members of this blog I will have the courtesy to not make you struggle to read what I have written. Courtesy. Someone mentioned it in another piece on this blog. It's a wonderful characteristic.
I had no intention of picking on you or trying to make you look like a clown on your own blog. I consider myself a gentleman. Gentleman. That's another word that may be going the way of all flesh in our land. It once meant something in our land to be referred to as a gentleman. Today, the news media refer to an armed robber as a "gentleman."
"The gentleman entered the pharmacy brandishing a pistol and demanded drugs from the pharmacist." Perverted language. That was no gentleman.
If the blog can be made a better place for everyone to visit I would think that anything that makes it better is a good thing.
Finally, I am what you might think of as an unusual mean old bastard. I am unconcerned about praise or condemnation. They are simply opposite ends of the same stick. That stick is not in my life. It makes life a lot easier.