Andre Jute
March 18th 06, 06:07 PM
Waiting.
Andre Jute wrote:
> Keith G wrote to Andre Jute:
>
> > Don [Pearce] ... could eat you as a 'technical snack'
>
> Yeah, Keefie, then let Pearce come do exactly that. Be the first useful
> thing I've seen Pearce do since I ran into him more than a year ago. He
> (and you) will be amazed at the respect he suddenly earns by becoming
> electronically useful. That's the problem with the conditional tense
> (1) though: hardly ever happens.
>
> Andre Jute
>
> (1) "could" -- a most revealling Freudian slip, eh Keefie? It is the
> built-in escape clause for your promise to deliver what you know you
> can't deliver.
Andre Jute wrote:
> Keith G wrote to Andre Jute:
>
> > Don [Pearce] ... could eat you as a 'technical snack'
>
> Yeah, Keefie, then let Pearce come do exactly that. Be the first useful
> thing I've seen Pearce do since I ran into him more than a year ago. He
> (and you) will be amazed at the respect he suddenly earns by becoming
> electronically useful. That's the problem with the conditional tense
> (1) though: hardly ever happens.
>
> Andre Jute
>
> (1) "could" -- a most revealling Freudian slip, eh Keefie? It is the
> built-in escape clause for your promise to deliver what you know you
> can't deliver.