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(...) Not necessarily. Sure, anyone who is a member is free to read and respond to any given post, but unless there is a "comments welcome"or "LMKYT", for example, responses aren't solicited. When I post a MOC, I do not do so in order to receive (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I may have missed it, but I don't think you actually said 'solicited' in the post to which Tim was responding. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) "Invited", "solicited". Same thing, no? JOHN (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not quite, in my view, but putting the differences aside, you said: "I didn’t say “expected”; I said solicited." What you probably should have said was: "I didn’t say “expects”; I said invites." (or something similar). Paying attention to such (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour? (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was going to quote 'a few good men' for a cheap quotation thing, but instead, in order to score some political karma, I have this quote-- "The GOP has mastered an error condition in the political process, an infinite loop of abstraction that (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I still disagree. By posting in a public forum you are, in my opinion, soliciting and inviting response. If you do not wish response, or if you wish only certain people to respond you should either not post or take it to email. (...) I agree (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay, we agree to disagree. (...) "Solicit" and "request" are synonymous. (...) I don't see that example as analogous. (...) I disagree. The point of a public forum is to share information and ideas. That can be 2-way, but not necessarily so (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) One of the most brilliant sketches ever written, IMO! Not necessarily-- I could be arguing in my spare time. Oh, I've had enough! No, you haven't! (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sometimes the only way to get perspective is through the passage of time. You remind me of my utter comtempt with Ronald Reagan when I was in Kollege. History already is showing that Reagan was brilliant. Given the events that have transpired (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sure (...) They're not actually although my understanding of solicit was wrong too. (URL) Invite and request are synonymous but different. And that is one of the greatest and most confusing things about the English language. Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) What saved Reagan was the division of powers in the senate and congress. As well, the 'rise' of mediocrity of the Rush's and the Hannity's that push this completely misnamed 'compassionate (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Then in 20 years, you and I will have to have a beer (by then it may be just (URL) Ensure> for me;-) at my future home in sunny Arizona and see for ourselves. I'll have a huge LEGO room, so your sons/daughters are invited, too. I'll have a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That'll put me at 60, and with 26+ years of tirades against the current US gov't, I may be on a 'no fly list', so I'll drive down ;) (...) Didn't read the book. Dave K (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Reagan? Ronald Reagan? Surely you can't be talking about The Great Communicator, from whose myriad disastrous policies we had only begun to recover when 2001 occurred (with all the implications thereof). The only thing keeping Reagan from (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm. I wonder if (URL) Dave feels the same way>? ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS, STUFFY-NOSED, MALODOROUS PERVERT!!! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) lol well, gotta run-- I'm off to my Being-Hit-On-The-Head lessons.... WHAAAAA! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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