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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hermes Trismegistus via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] diets<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…I forgive you, but I cannot speak for my <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4043;background:white'>contemporaries</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>Forgive him? I thought it a compliment! I always wanted to be a tangential mob. Aspired to it as a young solitary tangential…em… whatever one guy in a faceless horde is. Pretty weird looking for sure. Think about it for a minute. Eeesh! And what would be worse? Imagine you’re the only faceful guy in a faceless mob. That would be even creepier. Surely they would be disdainful, but you would have no way of knowing: faceless people are both expressionless and speechless. I don’t even know how they breathe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But regarding blasphemy and pirates: I don’t see how the heck we figure we can even have a reasonably-accurate talk like a pirate day when we assume pirates spoke English, or some odd dialect thereof. Good chance most of them didn’t. The primary language of modern pirates is Somali, and I don’t even know how one blasphemes in that language or even how to translate the universally-accepted term “arrr.” The mind boggles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, that tangential mob business just has a kind of pleasant mathematical lilt. Hermes, are ye feelin’ it, me lad?<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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, October 1, 2021 4:49 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net">Ben Zaiboc</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ExI] diets<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 30/09/2021 19:47, bill w wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> A tangential mob are ye<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh, is it Talk Like A Pirate Day?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Not that I'm changing the subject or anything.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Actually, yesterday was International Blasphemy Day. And I forgot to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>blaspheme! I hope the gods forgive me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ben<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>extropy-chat mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>