[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 99, Issue 17

[Jerry Frost]

You get your pass Charles, you'd get a much better grade if you inserted a 
pun or two but good pedantry is entertaining on it's own merits. No extra 
credit for picking on Andy though, that's a given of sorts. We might give 
him a break now and then but he enjoys it so we indulge.

Jer
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 99, Issue 17


> On 4/12/2012 2:55 PM, Fred Zickrick wrote:
>> The exception proves the rule.  And I'd say that Bob was not
>> bold.  Every part of his act was very carefully thought-out and 
>> practised.
> Bold is a separate issue from skill and planning.   Bold is how close
> you are willing to cut your margins.   Skill and planning puts some
> margin back in, but doing power off loops in a twin engine business
> plane a hundred feet off the deck at seventy years of age is bold.
>
> BTW, on a completely unrelated note, and not picking on you, but I have
> to say, the phrase "The exception that proves the rule"  drives me
> bananas the way it is commonly used.  Finding data that refutes your
> hypothesis does not prove your hypothesis correct, but just the
> opposite.   The phrase "The exception that proves the rule" has a legal
> not scientific origin.   What it means is that an explicitly stated
> exception proves the existing of an implicit or unstated rule.  For
> example if you post a sign on your door that says "No salesmen between
> the hours of 6pm and 6am"  it is taken as an exception to and proves the
> existence of an unstated rule to the effect that "Salesmen are welcome
> between the hours of 6am and 6pm"   Anyway, sorry to be pendantic, but
> this group tends to enjoy words and phrases more than most so I figure I
> might get a pass.
>
> Charles
>