(urth) OT urth crackdown!

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Mon May 24 10:58:57 PDT 2010


Wow.

.


> Actually, Twain left behind a huge and very frank autobiography and
> instructions that it not be published for at least a century after his
> death. He died in 1910, and the first volume of a projected three will
> be published in November.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Fred Kiesche
> <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mark Twain has returned from the afterlife to do his memoirs? Cool!
>>
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:26 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Pax Romana
>>>
>>> On 5/24/2010 11:52 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Rome has spoken, and there is an end of the matter.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ranjit Bhatnagar<ranjit at moonmilk.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Here comes the Argument From Authority!  As list owner, I hereby
>>>>> decree:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Twain's forthcoming memoirs are a reasonable topic of discussion
>>>>> here,
>>>>> but don't go overboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a good idea to edit the subject line of a discussion to reflect
>>>>> the
>>>>> topic being discussed, particularly if the discussion is drifting
>>>>> away
>>>>> from
>>>>> the main point of the list, which is Gene Wolfe's work.  It's not
>>>>> mandatory,
>>>>> though, and it's not in itself a good topic of discussion on this
>>>>> list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Acting like a jerk is always off-topic, even if the other guy started
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> This list has been around for almost 15 years with almost no
>>>>> moderation,
>>>>> and
>>>>> this has almost always worked out just fine.  Sometimes bickering has
>>>>> broken
>>>>> out, and some valuable members have left because of the noise.  I'd
>>>>> prefer
>>>>> to keep that to a minimum.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have any complaints or comments about this decree, email me
>>>>> directly.  Note that I wasn't calling YOU a jerk-- I was talking
>>>>> about
>>>>> that
>>>>> other guy.
>>>>> - Ranjit
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
>> Always,
>> scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
>> presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
>> Blogging at The Lensman's Children
>> (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>>
>>
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