🚀 go-pugleaf

(Well, my name *was* in the header, so I should respond...)
In article <1992Sep15.145914.21637@Princeton.EDU> egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.203330.21048@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez) writes:
>>So, that anyone *would* proofread his pseudocode is surprising to you?
>>Or are you surprised that Ed Nilges doen't have enough pride in what 
>>he posts to proofread how his sentences parse?
>
>Touche, Goofus.  Your correction is accepted: the above should read
>"would not" where it reads "would."  Couple of points, however:
>
>     *  Your correction mis-spells "doen't."                    

That's okay; your correction misspells "mis-spells."  You also left
out the accent on your first word, but we'll forgive that, given the
limitations of Usenet (no doubt sublimated racism toward French people --
an oppressed minority, according to Ed's criticism of Alphonse and Gaston).

>     *  The complexity of the thought expressed was several orders of
>        magnitude higher than the complexity of the C code posted by
>        Jackanapes and Knucklehead.  

It must be really hard to come up with those witty nicknames, hm?

>Cf. the movie Bonfire
>of the Vanities, a horrid piece of racist/sexist trash in which an ending
>speech by Morgan Freeman attempts to "prove" political
>correctness.  The Right Stuff was a better movie than Bonfire, for the
>racism was a minor detail and the theme was genuinely heroic.  But the
>orderly did not appear in the book, any more than Morgan Freeman
>appeared in Bonfire's book (by the same author.)  The fact that
>screenwriters have to do this to Tom Wolfe's books just proves what a
>racist the guy is.

No, it just proves that they'd come under ridiculous criticism from
people who think anything beyond a two-dimensional portrait of minorities as
good folks who have nothing wrong with them that the removal of
oppression couldn't occur is "racist" that they had to have Morgan
Freeman play the part of the crusty Jewish judge.  Nothing at all racist
about the book -- the coverage of the Crown Heights riots is a wonderful
example of life imitating art, in this case, Wolfe's portrayal of the
media's response to Sharpton-types. 

The reason Right Stuff was a better movie than Bonfire was because
they were slightly more faithful to the book.  

>Note the abusive Parent in Goofus' posting here, as well as the

Oh, and by the way, it would be "Goofus's."
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