On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
At 6:55 PM -0400 10/18/00, Jim Burnes wrote:
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, anonymous@openpgp.net wrote:
Wow. Runic alphabets are verboten also.
"Verboten"?
You just used a German word. I'm reporting you to the Zionist League.
Hehe. I was going to do the tiresome emoticon thingy after 'verboten', but I rightly assumed that someone would enjoy the irony in it without having to hammer it home. I was not dissapointed. The twist was actually unintentional. I usually use 'verboten' to mean, not just forbidden, but forbidden by the thought police. The irony is delicious. I mean, who would have thought that the usage drummed into me by all those Hollywood war movies would eventually be used to describe....oh never mind... jim -- Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural