Time.

[Gene Vincent]

dodgyviper said:

GV - you've mentioned a couple of times a mentor by the name of Jim Muecke.

As you've stated he sometimes has different ideas compared to yourself, could you point us in the direction of anything he's published.

Google wasn't my friend on this one. (Not unless he's an eye specialist in Oz)

We were all on the site below when it had a forum, which sadly died and for some reason cannot be recovered.

Back in 1999-2003 its forum was a breeding ground of ideas, with contributions from leading Theorists and Scientists around the world, it was brilliant.

http://www.superstringtheory.com/index.html

[moreflaps]

dodgyviper said:

Gene Vincent said:

moreflaps said:

Is it me, or does this sound like pachydermic proleptic posturing?

Cheers

It's you.

But my post did have a purpose...

pachydermic - Any of various large, thick-skinned, hoofed mammals such as the elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus

proleptic - The use of a descriptive word in anticipation of the act or circumstances that would make it applicable

posturing - behaviour or speech which is intended to attract attention and interest, or to make people believe something that is not true


Dude - give me a whoosh parrot if necessary, but as the head scratching monkey would say, "what the fk are you on about".

Alliteration and poetic description.

Cheers

[moreflaps]

Gene Vincent said:

This is PH, almost all threads reach a point around 250 posts where the 'personalities' arrive.

I think that in the Science! forum there should be a rule about the number of posts a thread can have before being in the 'Pending Closure' area, something like 250 posts, then after that summations only.

This might be a way of concentrating minds on the subject, rather than personalities.

It doesn't have to be a hard and fast rule, if a subject has become contemporaneous with events then it should stay open, but if not, the guillotine is a humane way to stop the dumb devaluing good debate.

Sniff. ah, rotten bait. Perhaps if you want to be didactic, why not give up your pompous pedagogy and engage the reader with little humor and humility (and even some references)? Just a thought -it could improve you.

Cheers

[Simpo Two]

Perhaps we need a 'pompous words' thread. Then people can compete to see who knows the most pompous words, and get some keyboard points that way.

[nellyleelephant]

Simpo Two said:

Perhaps we need a 'pompous words' thread. Then people can compete to see who knows the most pompous words, and get some keyboard points that way.

purportless.

[moreflaps]

Simpo Two said:

Perhaps we need a 'pompous words' thread. Then people can compete to see who knows the most pompous words, and get some keyboard points that way.

How can words be self important (pompous)? The like art, beauty only appears from the hands of artist.

Cheers