Who is this "Franklin" guy he keeps talking about? Franklin Roosevelt?
Benji also printed his own benjis: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/was-benjamin-frankli...
— Daddy Warbucks, *Annie*> Benjamin Franklin wrote and published Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758
Benjamin Franklin, you know: Founding Father [of the USA], signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution; first postmaster general of the USA; first US ambassador to France; secretary and president of the American Philosophical Society; inventor of the lightning rod and bifocal eyeglasses; founder of the Library Company and the University of Pennsylvania... Polymath, inspirational figure...
And surely you know that jokes in these pages make sense only if they fulfill the purpose HN has.
Well I could not predict it the same way I could not predict Stravinsky doing somersaults on stage.
dey no have value in de real world except for hipsters.
eye em oh.
* #sorrycudnresistderhyme
repeat afta me:
we doan need no spellucation!
ah said ta repeat afta me, but ya went ahead, bro!
ennyway, kudos, n sudos!
ah B frum Unix land, you C ...
that would have made your trick more believable.
still, nice try.
:)
[but seriously: did you ever figure out whether it was more likely Loki had thought of the goat shtick beforehand or not?]
...You seem to be confusing "restraint" with something else.
The pivots here are «intellectual curiosity» and «a good... comment teaches us something». Of course some of us believe also those mandates should be taken with flexibility and common sense - but one should not forget them and the more general spirit behind them when posting. A rubberband should bind to them - if it's not there, there's probably a misunderstanding of the opportunity given.
<<eye twitch>>
You're doing that on purpose.
Sorry, I don't get what you mean.
Some denounce the "slippery slope" arguments as a fallacy in arguments - but denouncing a slope is only sometimes a fallacy, not always (it is a weak correlation). In case elzbardico intended to imply that the original proposal was a fallacy, he was replied the relevant slope is real. "If we unleash without restraint here, the place will fill with noise". Reasonable restraint makes this place a better place for its purpose.
Irregardless is a word sometimes used in place of regardless or irrespective which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795.
The usage dispute over irregardless was such that in 1923 Literary Digest published an article titled "Is There Such a Word as Irregardless in the English Language?" The OED goes on to explain the word is primarily a North American colloquialism.
To be fair, there's more variations of English in the UK than in the whole of North America so it's a quaint bit of Queen's English snobbery from the Oxbridge and wannabe's set.
It seems like a case in which the prothesis is an effective intensifier, but compromised in the final logical flow of the word.