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Thread #59418   Message #1839146
Posted By: Amos
20-Sep-06 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
As one who prefers clarity to intentional and oppressive obscurity, I should point out that a "prussik knot" is actually a Prusik knot, named after Karl Prusik, a climbing expert.

Rapaire's stream-of-semitechnical-consciousness, in contrast, is intentionally as confusing and demeaning to the reader as possible. There is a common misconception that doing this sort of thing makes the originator seem knowledgeable or important. This, I have learned from long hard experience on both sides of the exchange, is a delusion. WHile such fugues of poly-babble certainly qualify generically as BS, I don't think anyone would defend the assertion that they constitute quality BS.

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