Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS
From: Kenneth Downs <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:09:12 -0400
Message-ID: <8503lc.ud4.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net>
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> Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's exactly what I was thinking!
> I guess I'm Constrainticus. Except I was baptised "Demetrius."
> Seriously.
>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:09:12 -0400
Message-ID: <8503lc.ud4.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> "Kenneth Downs" <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote in message
> news:3pd1lc.cjs.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net...
>> Alan wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> > And I suppose Demetrius would follow Automaticus off of a cliff while >> > Constrainticus points out the warning sign... >> >> Nope, first Constrainticus would point out that is is an Abomination to >> quote an entire usenet posting just to add a two line reply.
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> Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's exactly what I was thinking!
> I guess I'm Constrainticus. Except I was baptised "Demetrius."
> Seriously.
>
I was waiting for somebody to point out that my names are in Latin form, not Greek, but what the heck.
Demetrius I took from Midsummer's Night Dream, which I can almost still quote, "Or if there were a sympathy in choice, war death or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow..."
Glad to finally meet a Demetrius!
-- Kenneth Downs Use first initial plus last name at last name plus literal "fam.net" to email meReceived on Tue Oct 19 2004 - 14:09:12 CEST