"Thanks for being my ****** Nick.
StanB"

Maybe ****** Nick was intended as a Nickname, in which case capitalization
and no komma is quite correct?
Hans J

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Maybe ****** Nick was intended as a Nickname, in which case capitalization
and no komma is quite correct?


That is true; yet I don't believe that Stan continued to use that phrase as a
nickname for Mr. Bourbaki He varied, calling Bourbaki "Bwana Nick," and so
forth. If it was intended as a nickname, it didn't "stick," the way, for
example, "Nick-the-liar" has (for obvious reasons).
If that was the intent, then I erred in trying to "correct" Stan's
punctuation.

(Sam Sloan) wrote ignorantly
in message ...

The prisoners in Siberia were probably guilty of
something, at least opposition to the state,

The great majority was guilty of *nothing*.

and they had a chance to
get out.

A significant percentage did not.

Wlod

(Sam Sloan) wrote in message ...

The prisoners in Siberia were probably guilty of
something, at least opposition to the state, and
they had a chance to get out.

It's shamefull to write such things and
to make cheap and false comparisons.

Millions perished in Soviet gulags.
Including millions of women. But so many
more men died there that the number of women
in the soviet Union was significanly higher
than the number of man.

People were "sentenced" for ten and more years.
Often after finishing one term they were
semi-automatically "sentenced" to another.

It is a wrong way to support a cause, as right as it
may be, by belittling the evil of the communist
crimes. Stalin and Mao were the two greatest
murderers in the whole history, Hitler being a distant
third (but he did aspire to be the number Uno).

Wlod