BS: Exceptions to the rule

Subject: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 05:24 PM

The exception to the rule is usually someone who does not know the rules like Donald.

Biology- a science of exceptions

"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it.

"If you are not an exception, try to be the example.

"There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions."
"When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?"
"A shrink once told me that an exception is a resentment waiting to be born."

"By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying pathology we may construct a model of health."

Be the exception, and be happy.

Look for the exception to the rule and you will find it.

Something remarkable , new, exceptional and noteworthy
is too often your own idea, except when someone else thinks of it first.

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 05:58 PM

If there was an exception, it would not be a rule. The correct phrasing should be "The exception that disproves the rule."

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: DMcG
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 06:03 PM

You are right Rap. It is 'proves' in the sense of 'puts to the test'. The proverb in modern terminology is better rendered as 'it is the exceptional that proves the rule reliable or not"

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: DMcG
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 06:10 PM

Wiki says the explanation I gave is considered false by some sources. Of course that suggests some don't.


Anyway, the wiki page is worth a read.

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 06:13 PM

Rap

"The exception [that] proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning has been interpreted or misinterpreted in various ways. Its true, or at least original, meaning is that the presence of an exception applying to a specific case establishes ("proves") that a general rule exists.


In the Talmud there are 613 commandments/rules. There are about the same number of exceptions.

1% Rule: The Golden rule, he with all the gold rules.

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 06:41 PM

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.
I'm not shouting.

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Oct 16 - 06:50 AM

"The Golden Rule is that there are no Golden Rules" - George Bernard Shaw.
And he was truly exceptional.

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 16 - 08:23 PM

I take exception to that!

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 02:51 PM

where are you taking it?

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 16 - 03:27 PM

I don't have ulterior motives, axes to grind, set ups and agendas for everything

however


it sure the heck feels like a year of exceptions, besides masters like you and Rap have the talent to take these things to new insights, heights or depths. Even our current understanding of the universe requires our dispensing with logic and making exceptions for the rational.

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 16 - 08:46 AM

SO.. THE CUBS WILL WIN THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iam yeling

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 16 - 08:59 AM

Bob Newhart told the CUBS he is 87 and too old for this

Subject: RE: BS: Exceptions to the rule
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 16 - 01:53 PM

I guess there ae no Cubs fans here