In article <09$GL9OHaZ8KFwm7@marage.demon.co.uk>,
james@marage.demon.co.uk (james) wrote:

> Nothing 'Humpty Dumpty' about my English usage...

The word 'flacktoid' does not exist. You evidently intend it to mean
something that it doesn't. That's Humpty Dumpty English.

In case it's of any interest to you, my spelling checker suggests that
the word you're malaproply missing by a mile could be 'factoid'. I'd not
come across the word before but it seems to have a meaning appropriate to
the context in which you don't use it.

> ...otherwise I wouldn't be paid such socking huge sums for using it.

Being paid well for doing something is no evidence of how good at it you
are. Look at Dan Brown, for example. Or Gordon Brown, for that matter. I
also recall you once commenting that you made no claims to being good at
English and that you let editors worry about tidying it up. Your opinion
of your abilities seems to have become more inflated since then.

> ...informal colloquial English at it's finest -- sharp as a new
> scalpel and just as deadly.

You do have a high opinion of yourself, don't you.

> It's hardly my fault if some folks are so eaten up with jealousy...

You do have a /really/ high opinion of yourself, don't you.

> ...and hatred...

You do have an *extraordinarily* high opinion of yourself, don't you!

Do you really think that anyone cares enough about you to hate you? What
a sad, pompous ass you are.

Jon.

"Jon O'Brien"  wrote in message 
news:memo.20091105133737.6944A@here.there.everywhere.co.uk...
> In article <09$GL9OHaZ8KFwm7@marage.demon.co.uk>,
> james@marage.demon.co.uk (james) wrote:
>
>> Nothing 'Humpty Dumpty' about my English usage...
>
> The word 'flacktoid' does not exist. You evidently intend it to mean
> something that it doesn't. That's Humpty Dumpty English.
>
> In case it's of any interest to you, my spelling checker suggests that
> the word you're malaproply missing by a mile could be 'factoid'. I'd not
> come across the word before but it seems to have a meaning appropriate to
> the context in which you don't use it.
>
>> ...otherwise I wouldn't be paid such socking huge sums for using it.
>
> Being paid well for doing something is no evidence of how good at it you
> are. Look at Dan Brown, for example. Or Gordon Brown, for that matter. I
> also recall you once commenting that you made no claims to being good at
> English and that you let editors worry about tidying it up. Your opinion
> of your abilities seems to have become more inflated since then.
>
>> ...informal colloquial English at it's finest -- sharp as a new
>> scalpel and just as deadly.
>
> You do have a high opinion of yourself, don't you.
>
>> It's hardly my fault if some folks are so eaten up with jealousy...
>
> You do have a /really/ high opinion of yourself, don't you.
>
>> ...and hatred...
>
> You do have an *extraordinarily* high opinion of yourself, don't you!
>
> Do you really think that anyone cares enough about you to hate you?


From my position in the public gallery, you seem to be doing a passable 
impression of one who does Jon.  Just why do you continue to respond to his 
jibes?


> What a sad, pompous ass you are.


The moment one resorts to personal insults, the argument is lost.  I know 
because I've been guilty of it far too many times myself.  Good fun though 
isn't it    ;o)


-- 
Dave (Sgt. Pepper)       Epsom, England
     My photo galleries at  http://www.pbase.com/davecq
    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

"Peter" <peter@double.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Only if the insults are apt and witty.

Sounds like a firm of legal beagles.  "Have you been the subject of an 
insult, libel or slander?  Just contact Apt and Witty Solicitors (Claims 
Department).  We will make a claim on your behalf and we guarantee 100% 
settlement ... yes, we'll take it all for ourselves.   Remember our slogan 
'When you're in the shitty, call Apt & Witty' ".

-- 
Dave (Sgt. Pepper)       Epsom, England
     My photo galleries at  http://www.pbase.com/davecq
    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

"james"  wrote in message 
news:nwCVH3HsPa+KFwlQ@marage.demon.co.uk...
> In message , "Dave (Sgt. 
> Pepper)"  writes
>>
>>"Peter" <peter@double.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message 
>>news:nt+xrECWuD9KFwNa@godthoms.demon.co.uk...
>>
>>> Only if the insults are apt and witty.
>>
>>Sounds like a firm of legal beagles.  "Have you been the subject of an 
>>insult, libel or slander?  Just contact Apt and Witty Solicitors (Claims 
>>Department).  We will make a claim on your behalf and we guarantee 100% 
>>settlement ... yes, we'll take it all for ourselves. Remember our slogan 
>>'When you're in the shitty, call Apt & Witty' ".
>
> You may jest, Dave, but not only is the situation worse than you imagine, 
> it's worse than you can imagine.
> The following is from the Chichester Observer:


Oh it's not that bad James.  In a couple of decades of ice melt and the rate 
of declination along the south coast, Chichester will be totally submerged 
in the sea ... problem solved.  Simples!

-- 
Dave (Sgt. Pepper)       Epsom, England
     My photo galleries at  http://www.pbase.com/davecq
    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

james wrote:
> 
> You may jest, Dave, but not only is the situation worse than you 
> imagine, it's worse than you can imagine.
> 
<snip>


It's not worse than I can imagine, but it's pretty bad:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6542083/Grandfather-arrested-for-using-swear-word.html

"The 67-year-old was woken at 5.35am when officers knocked on his door 
in connection with a single swear word which he used six days earlier."

It's Cambridge, so I suppose it's OT really...

Andy