http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polandshadroch said:Its okay to be ignorant, but one should think twice before advertising the fact.
Kudos Brother Chinist!Machinist said:NAMBY PAMBY ...
I have Read and learned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! again.....:laugh:zengrifter said:Kudos Brother Chinist!
From Wikipedia Namby Pamby-
Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. However, its origins are in Namby Pamby (1725), by Henry Carey. Carey wrote the poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions. Its first publication was Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----, where the A-- P-- was Ambrose Philips.
A-P was a figure who had become politically active and was a darling of the Whig party. He was also a target of the Tory satirists. Alexander Pope had criticized A-P repeatedly (in The Guardian and in his Peri Bathos, among other places), and praising or condemning A-P was a political as much as poetic matter in the 1720's.
The poem begins with a mock-epic opening (as had Pope's Rape of the Lock and as had Dryden's MacFlecknoe), calling all the muses to witness the glory of Philips's prosodic reform:
All ye Poets of the Age!
All ye Witlings of the Stage!
Learn your Jingles to reform!
Crop your Numbers and Conform:
Let your little Verses flow
Gently, Sweetly, Row by Row:
Let the Verse the Subject fit;
Little Subject, Little Wit.
Namby-Pamby is your Guide;
Albion's Joy, Hibernia's Pride.
MAZ said:Whatever do you mean? What pro would possibly think they are better than your self acknowledged decent amount of non legit, internet hero, no experiencing having, talking out of their ass types? The nerve of those stinkheaded pros. I'm with ya moo, those pros using their asses as hats should just shutup and be kind to all the others posting their "wealth of knowledge". :grin:
Lets see a short list of members who do this... excluding QFIT, of course. zgmoo321 said:Well, to me the issue isn't so much misinformation as civility. Some people on here are morons, but that doesn't mean we have to say so. I mean what is the purpose of calling someone a fraud? Even if he is, what does it accomplish?
I agree. There's just no sense in sitting around calling names and arguing about who's a "real" pro or not.blackchipjim said:Name calling during arguements takes away from us as a whole
There are probably only 5 or 6 full time Pro's that post regularly here, but I know for a fact there are some damn good players posting here that hold down day time jobs and are almost, if not as good, as the full time Pro's and just as serious about the game of BJ.moo321 said:I agree. There's just no sense in sitting around calling names and arguing about who's a "real" pro or not.
I thought someone would get a laugh? zgzengrifter said:Speaking of Poland - when we were promoting the microwave-based "wireless cable" TV in the 90s, (see ZGI) one of our biggest sales was to install the tech in Warsaw, to be that nation's first cable system. The Polish PM and his Telecom Minister loved the system demos - clarity - cost advantage of no coax cable plant, etc.
BUT at the 11th hour the Poles canceled the sale. We were flabbergasted and asked WHY??
The Polish representative replied, "Well now this is our country's first cable TV system...
...so we decided we want the real cable... so that we can see what we are getting!"
A sausage-less Kielbasa sandvich? No vunder they vere upset!zengrifter said:I thought someone would get a laugh? zg