NEWSGROUPS | 2006-08-02
It is when I am most insistent that I am most unfair. It is also true that when I am most
insistent that I have the most to say. Being insistent make me not only wrong, it makes me
ridiculously wrong.
That's embarrassing. With my conscience, I have to ADMIT I was jsut plain wrong.
On the other hand I cannot make the points you consider worthwhile unless I am willing to
make a fool of myself when I am just plain wrong. This involves a form of courage the
average Tough Guy would not understand.
Your average tough guy quotes Coolidge: "I have never had to dny to deny something I never
said."
Sounds wise, doesn't it?
The problem is that, if that is the pinnacle of wisdom, any graveyard is filled with the
wisest people on earth.
Me, I'll take being wrong a lot.
So I kept insisting that you put quotes from me on Newsgroups.
It finally hit me that I don't HAVE any newsgroups. When I took AOL there were newsgroups there, so I kept criticizing you for not using them. But I don't HAVE AOL any more. So Ole Bob, who was giving you hell for not putting our stuff on newsgroups, finally realized that he couldn't do that himself.
So I FINALLY looked up "newsgroups" on yahoo. One thing I found was
It is when I am most insistent that I am most unfair. It is also true that when I am most
insistent that I have the most to say. Being insistent make me not only wrong, it makes me
ridiculously wrong.
That's embarrassing. With my conscience, I have to ADMIT I was jsut plain wrong.
On the other hand I cannot make the points you consider worthwhile unless I am willing to
make a fool of myself when I am just plain wrong. This involves a form of courage the
average Tough Guy would not understand.
Your average tough guy quotes Coolidge: "I have never had to dny to deny something I never
said."
Sounds wise, doesn't it?
The problem is that, if that is the pinnacle of wisdom, any graveyard is filled with the wisest people on earth.
Me, I'll take being wrong a lot.
So I kept insisting that you put our stuff on newsgroups. Years ago, when I was on AOL, they had plenty of newsgroups, so I assumed it would be easy and you were just lazy. Finally I decided to put my stuff on newsgroups.
I discovered it wasn't so easy now that I am no longer on AOL. Which could make me look a damned fool if I had not just explained to you that making a sillyass mistake like this shows the highest form of courage.
So I have begun to look up how one puts things on newsgroups. I looked under "newsgroups" on yahoo. I found
It is when I am most insistent that I am most unfair. It is also true that when I am most
insistent that I have the most to say. Being insistent make me not only wrong, it makes me
ridiculously wrong.
That's embarrassing. With my conscience, I have to ADMIT I was jsut plain wrong.
On the other hand I cannot make the points you consider worthwhile unless I am willing to
make a fool of myself when I am just plain wrong. This involves a form of courage the
average Tough Guy would not understand.
Your average tough guy quotes Coolidge: "I have never had to dny to deny something I never
said."
Sounds wise, doesn't it?
The problem is that, if that is the pinnacle of wisdom, any graveyard is filled with the wisest people on earth.
Me, I'll take being wrong a lot.
So I kept insisting htat you put my
http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/
but I haven't gone into it yet.
I am hoping that I will get one of those, "Bob, with the greatest respent, this is how you do it..." remarks from one of my commenters.
Just remember that I am showing courage here, not idiocy.