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Re: How good were the Beatles as instrumentalists?

White Spirit wrote:
> Don Evans wrote:
>
>> Nah, you have that backwards ... the group obviously "pwn"s you. You
seem
>> to be incapable of not replying.
>
> I choose to reply.

Yes, and an achoholic chooses to have anothe drink, and a junkie "chooses"
to have another fix.

>  Quite obviously, 'the group' would prefer that I
> didn't.
>> You may have the ability to string
>> together educated sounding phrases,
>
> That should be 'might' Don, not 'may'.  Do you mean to say that I a
> permitted to speak?

The uses of *might* and *may* overlap ... thanks for the schoolmarm joke,
anyway.

>> but you seldom impress anyone besides
>> yourself (and one other).  Oooh .. I said "other".    When you post
>> on topic, or even close to on topic, you are pretty interesting, but
>> this kind of crap is just tiresome.
>
> If you don't wish to read it, you may of course choose not to.

I might do that.

>> Ever ask yourself how it is that most of the world seems wrong to
>> you? Could it be a symptom of something?
>
> Where did you get the impression that most of the world seems wrong
> to me?

Ummm ... from you, actually.  I really don't care enough to find examples.

>> Y'see, some of us actually think of usenet in other terms than some
>> kind of lame academic debate.  You aren't communicating, you are
>> arguing ... it's pretty much all you do.  No one, especially me BTW,
>> cares who "wins".  If you keep writing after I'm done, that doesn't
>> make you the "winner", it just makes you the guy who can't let go.
>
> It shouldn't bother you how I wish to spend the odd snippet of my free
> time, Don.  Your perception is yours alone.

Time spent here is time when you can't annoy other people, I guess, so
great, post away.  You may.   ;-)
"May" is used for possibility and unknown/variable results, too, as in
"Your
mileage may vary."  (from an English usage source .. you can Google if you
feel the need.)

Don

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