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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: (Noel Chiappa) <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] List ping
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:36:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190410213659.Y9lu5%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190410155735.9E47518C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

Noel Chiappa wrote in <20190410155735.9E47518C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>:
 |This thread brings to mind a wonderful saying which I just saw in another \
 |forum:
 |
 |"A wise man speaks when he feels he has something to say - a fool speaks \
 |when
 |he feels he has to say something."

Tucholsky was "even one step further" (shortly before his suicide):

  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Eine_Treppe_(Tucholskys_Sudelbuch).jpg

 |And to reply in advance to the 'but I did't realize so many other people \
 |had
 |sent in replies' - try scanning your emailbox before replying to messages \
 |to a
 |large list.
 |
 |S/N is to be hallowed.
 |
 |    Noel
 |
 --End of <20190410155735.9E47518C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-10 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-10 15:57 Noel Chiappa
2019-04-10 21:36 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-10  7:54 Warren Toomey
2019-04-10  8:29 ` arnold
2019-04-10 12:11   ` Chet Ramey
2019-04-10  9:17 ` Angus Robinson
2019-04-10 10:25 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-04-10 10:48 ` Jason Stevens
2019-04-10 12:28 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-04-10 13:15 ` Jim Capp
2019-04-10 17:07   ` Donald ODona
2019-04-10 13:26 ` Gregg Levine
2019-04-10 13:41 ` Nemo
2019-04-10 14:26   ` Rodolfo García Peñas (kix)
     [not found]   ` <201904101359.x3ADxYqV014484@freefriends.org>
2019-04-10 16:01     ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-04-10 15:14 ` SPC
2019-04-10 15:17   ` David
2019-04-10 17:13 ` alan

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