[Magdalen] Invites

[Jay Weigel]

What's our problem, Jim, did you sit on a cactus last night? Geez.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:51 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> You have a pet peeve and ride it to death about every three weeks or so.
> and of course, that's just fine.
>
> I have a pet peeve, which is smug, self-righteous folks who don't get it
> that English is an evolving language (I'm not sure why this is such a
> difficult concept for otherwise intelligent people to grasp, but it is),
> and whine about stuff they think is soooo terrible, while conveniently
> ignoring the stuff they personally do all the time.
>
> Uh, thanks for asking.
>
> And while it is true that Feb-yew-airy makes me wince whenever I hear it,
> whining about it won't change the fact that this language is changing.
>
> So, as I said, let's by all means carp and gripe about all the silly stuff
> that at the end of the day means nothing at all, while we let the important
> stuff go -- because, gosh, where DOES the time go???
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If there's a topic in the Pub in which you're not interested, how about
> > just bypassing it instead of caricaturing those participating in it?
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:17 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh yes, let's by all means whine about those evil awful people over
> there
> > > who use language I don't approve of (the fact of it's being standard
> > > English for decades, of course, notwithstanding), so we can distract
> > > ourselves from paying attention to things in our own life that we might
> > > repair if we just had the time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> preserved,
> > > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:16 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I'm one who growls at "graduated high school."
> > >> And I've come to loathe "iconic," the most over-used word of the
> decade.
> > >> Then there's "back in the day." Which day?
> > >> -M
> > >>
> >
>