"The Masked Bishop" wrote in message
y.com...
Hey Nick, I'm sure we're all mightily impressed by your ability to flip
through the Oxford Book of Quotations, but why don't you just speak for
yourself, and let poor old Jane Austen alone?

Before doing more of his ignorant trolling here, "The Masked Bishop" could
actually check 'The Oxford Book of Quotations' (sic), which I did not use,
for the presence of my specific quotation from Jane Austen that evidently he
has (mis)attributed to it. I doubt that he should be able to find it there.

'She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance--a misplaced shame. Where people
wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed
mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others,
which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman, especially, if
she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she
can.'
--Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

--Nick

Yes, yes, Nick, whatever. The point, which you seemed to have missed despite
all of your fusty antiquarian delving, is that one tires rapidly of seeing
literary quotes in usenet posts. You are not impressing anyone, and should
we wish an education in the humanities, here is not the place to find it.

Stick to Judit Polgar, and forget trading boring, middlebrow comments about
pop history with mhoulsby. You will be HAPPIER for it.

TMB, no more an ignorant troll than you, bucko.

"The Masked Bishop" wrote in message
y.com...
Yes, yes, Nick, whatever. The point, which you seemed to have missed despite
all of your fusty antiquarian delving, is that one tires rapidly of seeing
literary quotes in usenet posts. You are not impressing anyone, and should
we wish an education in the humanities, here is not the place to find it.
Stick to Judit Polgar, and forget trading boring, middlebrow comments about
pop history with mhoulsby. You will be HAPPIER for it.

"Unfortunately, any place on the internet is a target for foul-mouthed bullies
who would like everyone to play by *their* rules."
--John Macnab

Evidently, I have overlooked the general announcement that has proclaimed
that "The Masked Bishop" must be the supreme arbiter of what may or may not
be written here. I could not care less about what "The Masked Bishop" might
think of my writings, and I could not care less about whether or not he chooses
to read them. Also, "The Masked Bishop"'s implied claim that he must represent
every other reader here (not to mention his ad hominem fantasies about me)
warrants no response from me beyond disdain.

TMB, no more an ignorant troll than you, bucko.

I can understand why "The Masked Bishop" might well prefer to have his
evidently blissful ignorance left undisturbed.

Jack : I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that
tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like an exotic
fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of
modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England,
at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it
did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

--Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

--Nick

"The Masked Bishop" wrote in message
y.com...
Yes, yes, Nick, whatever. The point, which you seemed to have missed despite
all of your fusty antiquarian delving, is that one tires rapidly of seeing
literary quotes in usenet posts. You are not impressing anyone, and should
we wish an education in the humanities, here is not the place to find it.
Stick to Judit Polgar, and forget trading boring, middlebrow comments about
pop history with mhoulsby. You will be HAPPIER for it.

"Unfortunately, any place on the internet is a target for foul-mouthed bullies
who would like everyone to play by *their* rules."
--John Macnab

Evidently, I have overlooked the general announcement that has proclaimed
that "The Masked Bishop" must be the supreme arbiter of what may or may not
be written here. I could not care less about what "The Masked Bishop" might
think of my writings, and I could not care less about whether or not he chooses
to read them. Also, "The Masked Bishop"'s implied claim that he must represent
every other reader here (not to mention his ad hominem fantasies about me)
warrants no response from me beyond disdain.

TMB, no more an ignorant troll than you, bucko.

I can understand why "The Masked Bishop" might well prefer to have his
evidently blissful ignorance left undisturbed.

Jack : I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that
tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like an exotic
fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of
modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England,
at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it
did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

--Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

--Nick

Evidently, I have overlooked the general announcement that has proclaimed
that "The Masked Bishop" must be the supreme arbiter of what may or may not
be written here.

"Nick," I don't know you could have missed that.

I could not care less about what "The Masked Bishop" might
think of my writings,

They are not your writings. They are wholesale lifts from other writers.

Also, "The Masked Bishop"'s implied claim that he must represent
every other reader here (not to mention his ad hominem fantasies about me)
warrants no response from me beyond disdain.

Still, you managed to double-post a lengthy responses, complete with more
ponderous lifts from more 19th century classics. Your disdain is coming off
more like a serving of scones, "Nick." Sorry the local academy isn't hiring
literature teachers this year.

TMB

The Masked Bishop wrote:

Evidently, I have overlooked the general announcement that has proclaimed
that "The Masked Bishop" must be the supreme arbiter of what may or may not
be written here.

"Nick," I don't know you could have missed that.

I could not care less about what "The Masked Bishop" might
think of my writings,

They are not your writings. They are wholesale lifts from other writers.

Also, "The Masked Bishop"'s implied claim that he must represent
every other reader here (not to mention his ad hominem fantasies about me)
warrants no response from me beyond disdain.

Still, you managed to double-post a lengthy responses, complete with more
ponderous lifts from more 19th century classics. Your disdain is coming off
more like a serving of scones, "Nick." Sorry the local academy isn't hiring
literature teachers this year.

TMB

Hehe, it's the word 'warrant' that Nickleodeon & Markieboy are so fond
of using, could be a Novacastrian thang I suppose, anyway I'm hereby
warranting the Masked Bishop, with regard to 'Nick', to speak on my
behalf any day of the week..

"Life is too important to be taken seriously" (O. Wylde)