[85090] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: To Thorwald Peeters; en Garde to the "Master"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Fri Sep 26 20:02:51 2008
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:00:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <53276.99.165.1222461768.squirrel@www.christopherfulkerson.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
What the heck are you talking about? Who is the Master of Klingons?
--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. <christopher@christopherfulkerson.com> wrote:
> From: Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. <christopher@christopherfulkerson.com>
> Subject: To Thorwald Peeters; en Garde to the "Master"
> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:42 PM
> Hi Thorwald,
>
> I am glad we worked that out. I suppose in the future I
> will not want to
> make any similar remarks as this to the whole room, but
> since I am new
> here, I think it would be dishonorable of me to fail to
> reach this
> closure.
>
> As to the Master of the Klingons, I make no secret of the
> fact that he is
> totally without honor, boastful, obviously self-satisfied,
> and needs to be
> challenged. Mostly, for his lack of consideration for the
> ignorance of a
> newcomer such as myself, whose status as a newcomer he
> should have known,
> if he deserved to be Master. For does not a true Master
> know who is in
> his Assembly? Does not a true Master know as soon as
> anyone new is on
> the List? His belated welcome means nothing to me. I
> break wind in
> his general direction! To have allowed me to embarrass
> myself is not an
> honorable welcome. I say he is probably an Earther,
> posing as a
> Klingon. That is my challenge: prove to me I am wrong!
> (Though I must
> say the makeup job looks realistic.)
>
> I also suggest that on your website you make it really even
> more crystal
> clear to dumbos like me that when they sign up for the list
> they are
> talking to EVERYBODY. Many people besides myself also
> probably do not
> understand that.
>
Oddly, I thought that by 2008 everyone understood what a MAILING LIST is. If you don't want everyone to receive your messages, don't send them to a MAILING LIST! If you somehow subscribed in error, feel free to unsubscribe, but don't blame us for your own error.
> Best,
>
> Christopher
>
>
-- ter'eS
