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Message 18 of 34 (448546)
01-13-2008 10:52 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Rrhain
01-13-2008 8:30 PM


Random acts of moderation - References for those quotes, please
Not picking on Rrhain, but I think that when one is pulling information, quotes, etc. from any source, there should be a reference/credit/link to that source.
Any discussion of this messages content should go to the "General discussion..." topic, link below.
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It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

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Message 20 of 34 (448575)
01-14-2008 1:23 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by Rrhain
01-13-2008 10:57 PM


The apparent online source of the quotes
Googling those phrases led me to:
Antony Flew - Wikipedia
Rrhain apparently got the quotes from that page, which in turn contained the references Rrhain supplies. I really would have preferred that the wikipedia link also had been included as a reference.
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It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

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