[TheForge] ebay scam alert -- first hand experience

Wed May 14 03:57:00 2003

Pete:

Tom Clark objected to Andy's gratuitous profanity. I happen to agree with Tom. Tom was not suggesting we speak such that Shirley Temple would approve, he just suggested this is not the place for trash talk. Take it somewhere else.

Your rationale for using profanity is pretty weak, however. By your logic, stealing is perfectly acceptable because it is an "ancient part" of our human history. Listen to what you are saying! You go on to say "rough language has been also traditionally associated with blacksmithing." Yeah? Where did you get that idea? Some blacksmith tell you that? That is as much a myth as truth. But, swarthy pirates seem more interesting than a civil haberdasher when Hollywood makes them out to swagger and swear. I have a journal of an 18th Century blacksmith that is colorful, eloquent and descriptive without one word of profanity in 8 years of writing. So just because a few people in centuries past chose to show they were miscreants, doesn't mean we should all rush to emulate them. If we want to be like "them," why not fashion our behavior after a Pennsylvania Dutchman that was both articulate with pen and artistic in ironworking. I'll take the high road; you go the low road if you think 
 that makes you more of a craftsman. I'm not prissy as you suggest, I just learned there is an avenue to travel that doesn't require I wade through the muck with the nefarious knaves.

Reynolds

 --- On Wed 05/14, Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer < [email protected] > wrote:
From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer [mailto: [email protected]]
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:25:29 -0700
Subject: Re: [TheForge] ebay scam alert -- first hand experience

Any way you can express it, if it's about blacksmithing, is fine with me. There is no English test rerquired to molest innocent pieces of steel. Profanity is highly expressive and an ancient part of the language...further, rough language is also traditionally associated with blacksmithing.. So, to hell with being so fucking prissy that even Shirley Temple would approve....I never liked her anyway.......Pete [email protected] wrote: >In a message dated 5/13/03 11:24:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > > >>an enormous $ amount of, say, gold or >> diamonds and either split or go chapter 7 or 13 and leave >> your creditors holding the bag. >> >> >> > >This is why you CAN'T, usually, buy gold, or diamonds (or other highly >liquid commodities) on a credit card, at least not in significant amounts. > >FWIW I didn't even notice the tarentinoesque language unti
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