On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:32:31 +0100, Lionel
wrote:

In , dave weil wrote :

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:09:56 +0100, Lionel
wrote:

dave "deaf" weil wrote :


Still, I'd be checking for phone numbers in her purse if I were you.


Experience speaking...

Perhaps you should check out the use of the subjunctive tense in
English (German has the same tense). It's called "contrary to fact",
which means that it's simply a hypothetical situation.

This is exactly my point.
You are imagining that you are in my "situation" and you're telling me what
you would do in such situation.

So what does that have to do with "experience"?

Thanks for taking a page from the Arnold "Sudden Literal Reading"
playbook. If I were you, I wouldn't read "If I were you" so literally.

You lose.


I confirm that IMHO *you* lost and you're still losing...


Again.


Compare to *your* loss this one is really, hmm... petty. ;-)


This "if I were you" speaks tons about you, Dave.
IMHO, it finaly gives to your past confidences an interesting
enlightment... :-D

Rocking chair enlightenment. Interesting.


The one who ignores history is condemned... :-D

This is the French Irony Paradox.