Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And all this time, I thought it was a joke... Although likely there are those who ARE female by persuasion now that radical surgical procedures are more common. I guess the same would go for cup size. I even know a converted Jew or tew. Would that be of the Jewish persuasion? Ric Carter of the short/bald/beer-gutted persuasion On Mar 14, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > At 08:34 PM 3/14/06 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >> What woke you up, Marc? > > Your rather insensitive and, well, passe, remark caused me to > respond. I > wasn't picking a fight with you, BD. I was picking a fight with the > thoughtlessness of the use of "persuasion" to describe a physical > reality. > That "persuasion" languages dates from the 1930's and before, and > was a > weak thing even then and it was a part of the social divisions of > that era.. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information