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06 Sep 05 - 12:15 PM (#1557604) Subject: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Little Hawk ...anyone from posting on the Mudcat? This question was just asked on another thread, and I thought it was one that deserved a whole brand new thread of its own. |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:18 PM (#1557610) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: kendall The difference between genius and ignorance is...genius has limits. |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:37 PM (#1557631) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: gnu It has stopped me many times... just not enough times. |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:38 PM (#1557632) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Les B Or, as a genius once answered when asked "What's the difference between ignorance and arrogance ?" - "I don't know, and I don't care!" |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:46 PM (#1557647) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Bill D seems to me the question is impossible to answer, as total ignorance may well have stopped a few, and one cannot tabulate non-events..... however, I could offer some observations about the % that DO get through! |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:52 PM (#1557654) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Little Hawk Good responses. ;-) Specially yours, kendall. |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:57 PM (#1557661) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: jeffp It obviously doesn't stop some people, as this thread will attest. |
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06 Sep 05 - 12:58 PM (#1557662) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Q (Frank Staplin) Dunno. Couldn't find igorance in the dictionary. |
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06 Sep 05 - 01:05 PM (#1557668) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Little Hawk Oh, shit! I'll get Joe Offer to fix that typo if I can...
-Joe Offer- |
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06 Sep 05 - 01:17 PM (#1557679) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Bee-dubya-ell Well, there's ignorance, and there's ignorance. Displays of ignorance should be avoided at all costs. Ignorance implies that you do not know anything, you should know it, and you are a blithering idiot for not knowing it. Those who openly exhibit their ignorance should realize that there is a good chance they will be ignored, derided, or confused with George W. Bush. Common, run-of-the-mill ignorance is a far less serious offense. It is often possible to use one's ignorance as a platform for launching truly brilliant examples of obfuscation, circumlocution and plain old-fashioned bullshit. I believe it was the great philosopher Microcephaleze who said, "Ignorance is one of the founts from which high quality BS doth flow. The other two are beer and forgetting to take one's medication." |
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06 Sep 05 - 01:19 PM (#1557680) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Mr Red there is a brand of ignorance that comes in the guise of pedantry. It is just as useless when it does not relate to the question, only the spelling. And may refer to the interpretation of the question. But don't let me stop you........................ |
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06 Sep 05 - 01:31 PM (#1557692) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Don Firth Nah, Little Hawk, leave it as is. I like it that way. Actually, ignorance is not the problem. We're all ignorant of something. The problem is stupidity. Stupidity is when a person becomes aware that he or she is ignorant of something and refuses to to repair the omission in their knowledge, often because it might conflict with something they want to cling to. Or knowing that they are ignorant, but going ahead and acting anyway. Plenty of examples in the news. Don Firth |
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06 Sep 05 - 01:35 PM (#1557698) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Bill D ignorance, theoretically, is curable. Stupidity is not. We have some of both in this forum. One of my favorite quotations is: "It's too bad ignorance doesn't itch" |
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06 Sep 05 - 02:00 PM (#1557740) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: John Hardly now see, if we could implement a mudcat policy of addressing ignorance while ignoring stupidity, we might get somewhere. Trouble seems to be, though, that the stupid are hard to ignore and the ignorant impervious to change. *BG* |
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06 Sep 05 - 02:04 PM (#1557748) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Donuel If it did itch, George has proved that he is pretty handy with a chain saw. |
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06 Sep 05 - 02:05 PM (#1557750) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Peace Well, recall the vast numbers of people who did NOT post to the spatula thread. That says it all. |
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06 Sep 05 - 02:16 PM (#1557773) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Bee-dubya-ell That says it all. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Not sure what it says, but it damned sure says all of it. |
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06 Sep 05 - 03:43 PM (#1557864) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Wolfgang Quite often, actually, in the upper section. I hardly remember ignorant Mudcatters trying to discuss fingerpicking with Rick Fielding or to discuss music theory with M.Ted. I see much more restraint in that respect in the music section (though Malcolm might disagree here a bit). In the BS section, however,... Wolfgang |
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06 Sep 05 - 04:11 PM (#1557891) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Stilly River Sage I figure that if Max ever has to decide to keep some but not all of the database and accompanying files, that he'd dump the BS before the rest. I hope that my contributions above the line are worthy of sticking around for a while. Sometimes the stuff below the line needs to go away, probably more often than it acutally does. The William Burroughs trick of scrambling the pages (aka posts) after that last crash did add a sort of Beat charm to the place. The resulting confusion is an improvement for many of them. :) SRS |
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06 Sep 05 - 04:32 PM (#1557900) Subject: RE: BS: When has total igorance ever stopped... From: Little Hawk Ummm... Yeah. |
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06 Sep 05 - 05:43 PM (#1557963) Subject: RE: BS: When has total ig(n)orance ever stopped... From: Little Hawk Thank you, Joe. Of all the places to put a typo, the title has got to be the worst. |