[109233] in Cypherpunks
Fw: To quote, or not to quote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul H. Merrill)
Sun Mar 14 17:44:53 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:25:18 -0500
From: "Paul H. Merrill" <PaulMerrill@acm.org>
To: CypherPunks@Algebra.Com
Reply-To: "Paul H. Merrill" <PaulMerrill@acm.org>
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ellis <pjie2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 10:30 PM
Subject: To quote, or not to quote
>To quote, or not to quote;
>That is the question.
>Whether 'tis cluefuller on the Net to re-post
>The tos and fros of diverse opinions,
>Or to take arms against such attributions,
>And, by excision, end them.
> To trim, to snip:
>No more, and by a snip to say we end
>The widows and the thousand orphaned words
>That posts are heir to, 'tis a consummation
>Devoutly to be wished.
> To trim, to snip.
>To snip, perchance too much. Ay, there's the rub,
>For in that joyous chop the sense we lose
>When we have taken out the fluff and dross
>Must give us pause.
> There's the factor
>That makes calamity of so long threads.
>For who would bear the tos and fros of chat,
>Th' cascader's screed, the geek's anality,
>The pain of misplacéd tags, the reeking trolls,
>The cliquiness of in-jokes, and the flames
>That studied satire draws from clueless fools,
>When he himself might his quietus make
>With a mere bobbit?
> Who would cudgel brains
>To write a piece, witty and thoughtful too,
>But that the hope of making people laugh,
>That blesséd gift of humour from whose touch
>No traveller is safe, spurs on the soul,
>And makes us rather bear those ills we read
>Than carve them up,and mayhap lose the joke?
>
>Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
>And thus the native hue of resolution
>Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
>And Usenet posters of great sense and content
>In this confusion quote more than they should,
>And lose the name of Clueful.
> Read you, now,
>The fair Emilia! [1] Nymph, in thy reminders
>Be all my posts remembered.
>
>
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