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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

wakephan09 said:
A very good question, and probably worth chatting about at length in another thread. Also, very well put. We should make a bot that auto-posts that every time somebody is acting Gerty on these here rjkarl boards.

My boards policy: it's something about the nonsense appropriation of Elizabethan baby-talk that bothers me. Watching otherwise smart people use the word "methinks" to try and look clever is silly. My personal crusade against the Cervantes phrase almost eradicated it for a short time. Ultimately, you could (accurately) say I was "tilting at windmills."

My real, sort of authoritative opinion: There are plenty of other idiomatic phrases that have dramatically changed senses (and that's cool, whatever) but it matters especially in cases where they directly reference a literary document that you could Google in five seconds. It's bad reading more than it is the "dynamic nature of language". Also, this is only partially about *language* -- the misunderstanding of the word "protest" is only half the problem.

This isn't a perfect analogy (for more than one reason), but when people commonly quote a bible verse more or less correctly but completely misinterpret it, do you think we should just change the "common idiomatic understanding" of the verse because of the dynamic nature of language? Why not? Why should this case be any different?

My guess, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that you spend much of your time in the pulpit trying to convince people of the *ideas* undergirding the content of the bible, in part to show how others' misuse of the words themselves means that they are also, more importantly, misunderstanding the meaning behind them.
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The answer, at least in this country, is apparently yes.
 
Since Cohen is helping both state and federal attorneys, maybe the State of NY should indict Trump and Rudy for witness tampering, witness intimidation and obstruction of justice. A perp walk for Rudy would be awesome.
 
Methinks wakephan is a good poster.
 
Junebug said:
You seem really cool. I’d love to have a beer with you sometime, so I could pour it on your head.
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I actually seriously would love grabbing a beer with wakephan.

Impromptu “Would have a beer with” power rankings:

1) Milhouse
2) NED
3) WakeandBake
4) Numbers (and twin)
5) Ph
6) wakephan
7) MHB
8) birdman
9) BKF (just because I want to find out where it all went wrong)
10) RJ (but only at the most millennial bar in America (and also because he had the Russia stuff down cold before all of us))

If you didn’t make the list, we can still grab beers. I like beer.
 
The place would have to have $12 beers, $18 measured whisky, small bites and a tasting menu...
 
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