Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse
| From: | John Fisher <john@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 10, 1999, 22:28 |
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In message <37371B98.D8BDABEB@...>, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
writes
>dunn patrick w wrote:
>> I've gotten that too. The person who said it collected stamps. Oh, the
>> irony!
>
>Hmm, a creative activity such as conlanging, which involves looking at
>the world in new ways, is "stupid", but an uncreative activity such as
>*collecting* stamps is not? Very odd ....
Well, you could in the end sell the stamps and get astonishingly rich,
if you're lucky, which I suppose puts it in the same category as doing
national lotteries (which Dr Johnson called "a tax upon fools"...)
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