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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Sorry to hear it. I would never have guessed from your posts. bill w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:32 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>Some of you are just small people: mean, petty, picky. You know who you are. — bill w</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>That’s me. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nor would I, SR.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding picky: eh, this is the online version of a think tank. That’s what we’re for: tossing out crazy ideas and playing with them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BillW, what if… a psychologist comments “you know who you are” when one is having an identity crisis? Or has severe amnesia? Just sayin.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The question opens another mystery: when one is just sayin, is it mandatory to drop the g? Have you ever heard it with the g? Neither have I. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And if a commie makes an absurd suggestion, is she just sayink? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And what if Popeye is just sayin? Does it revert back to just saying? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The mind boggles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BillW, SR, we love your ideas. You and the others make this such a fun place to outwardly hang. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pick on, be good to each other, play ball!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>