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sukie crandall <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:08:16 -0500
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Wolfy, flap her wattles at you?  Naw, she will slap you upside the head
with them!  Didn't the Oracle warn you about ancient TSC?  Didn't I?
Those wattles are so long and strong that she can fly with them!  Ah,
now you have done it.  You have distracted her from watching the ferrets
partying in that old Scottish castle.  Oh well, maybe you'd better borrow
the Oracle's hover wagon in case you need to out-fly her.
 
No, wait, something in Scotland has taken her mind off you.  I can't
really make out what it is, though.  I guess time will tell.
 
in the FML:
>WHY shouldn't each individual be 'allowed' to write in the way THEY are
>comfortable [without criticism from others]?..and the way that the words
>flow out of them..or the way their heart wants to?
 
It may not be that.  My impression from what was written was that they
might be teasing each other.  Heck, there might be people who really
think that someone called TSC is really going to slap Wolfy upside the
head.  Why?  Because they don't know the background (a joking communal
fantasy story).  The same might be going on between those two folks.  I
don't know.  Maybe you know much more about it than I.
 
Sometimes, also, it can be very hard to read some posts.  This is
especially true if a post is written in babytalk or is a run-on sentence,
and those statements are even more true if a reader has bad eyesight
(You'd be amazed at how much guessing goes on sometimes in that
situation.) or a bit of dyslexia ( Ditto.) or both then that difficulty
becomes even more true.  I don't know what was in that post in question
(and think it might have been written on a day with an FML I didn't get),
but I know that there have been a few times when I wanted to follow
certain conversations but simply could not do so unless the author wrote
them in a form that was more understandable.  If something like that is
going on then such a request is a statement of appreciation.  It says,
"I WANT to know what you wrote, but I have trouble with it in this
fashion.".  A person wouldn't feel that way if there wasn't a desire to
read the posts or if the person figured the author would not understand
the need.
 
I just figured that perhaps not everyone is aware that sometimes there is
no criticism but instead an honest desire to share in a conversation -- a
feeling which comes from appreciation, not from derision.
 
One of the very best write-ups on aspects of the liver is the section
on liver results interpretation in
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Clin_Path/ClinPath.html
[Posted in FML issue 4357]

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