Ottava leaves Wikipedia Options

[Coffee]

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[Malleus]

You'll get no argument from me. I've never smoked, but my wife does and she's a professional pharmacologist, with a PhD. She's often pointed that there's actually no very convincing study on the harmful effects of smoking. Or even, come to that, any bad effects from driving after having consumed a moderate amount of alcohol. In fact some studies seem to suggest that it's actually beneficial. Or so I'm led to believe.

I'm always amused, btw, seeing a 1930s/40s film in which someone visits a doctor. Inevitably the doctor will offer his patient a cigarette.

This post has been edited by Malleus: Wed 11th November 2009, 11:46pm

[Newyorkbrad]

You'll get no argument from me. I've never smoked, but my wife does and she's a professional pharmacologist, with a PhD. She's often pointed that there's actually no very convincing study on the harmful effects of smoking.

I'm not known for name-calling, but this is blithering idiocy.

[everyking]

You'll get no argument from me. I've never smoked, but my wife does and she's a professional pharmacologist, with a PhD. She's often pointed that there's actually no very convincing study on the harmful effects of smoking.

I'm not known for name-calling, but this is blithering idiocy.

Then you're clearly a blithering idiot, as it's perfectly true.

At first I thought we had drifted hopelessly off-topic, but then I read this post and I thought of Ottava again.

This post has been edited by everyking: Thu 12th November 2009, 3:02am

[Malleus]

At first I thought we had drifted hopelessly off-topic, but then I read this post and I thought of Ottava again.

I'm encouraged that you're capable of "thinking".

[everyking]

At first I thought we had drifted hopelessly off-topic, but then I read this post and I thought of Ottava again.

I'm encouraged that you're capable of "thinking".

Even if Ottava is banned, his spirit will endure as long as editors are still insulting one another for no good reason.

[A Horse With No Name]

Even if Ottava is banned, his spirit will endure as long as editors are still insulting one another for no good reason.

You make Ottava sound like Elton John's tribute to Marilyn Monroe: your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.

Which may be the first (and probably last) time Ottava was compared to Marilyn Monroe. Goodbye, Norma Jean, indeed!

[Malleus]

Even if Ottava is banned, his spirit will endure as long as editors are still insulting one another for no good reason.

You make Ottava sound like Elton John's tribute to Marilyn Monroe: your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.

Which may be the first (and probably last) time Ottava was compared to Marilyn Monroe. Goodbye, Norma Jean, indeed!

I don't know if you saw the Queen's performance (I mean Elton John, of course) at Princess Diana's funeral, for which he changed the words so as to refer to Diana instead of Marilyn. I have rarely seen such a vomit-inducing travesty in my entire life.

At first I thought we had drifted hopelessly off-topic, but then I read this post and I thought of Ottava again.

I'm encouraged that you're capable of "thinking".

Even if Ottava is banned, his spirit will endure as long as editors are still insulting one another for no good reason.

What leads you to believe there's "no good reason"?

[gadfly]

I don't know if you saw the Queen's performance (I mean Elton John, of course) at Princess Diana's funeral, for which he changed the words so as to refer to Diana instead of Marilyn. I have rarely seen such a vomit-inducing travesty in my entire life.

I am much more concerned by this admission: that you even watched the funeral on the TV! and did not, like myself and all my sensible academic colleagues (though my idiotic academic colleagues) merely carry on as usual, thus getting a comparatively enormous amount of work done because the majority of people were succumbing to the hysteria and thus not getting in our ways.

Shocked and dismayed!