Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

Raymond A. Brown wrote:
>
> At 8:39 am -0700 18/6/99, Sally Caves wrote:
> >Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> Well, truly sorry you thought I didn't get your joke - I did; and also
> truly sorry you thought I was replying to you rather than to the list at
> large.
Well, I am truly TRULIER sorry that I growled at you, and that I took
your
general remark to be a personal response to my question "what is
feckless?"
And for thinking that I own my remarks after I've made them instead of
the
list at large.

Groveling apologies all round, but my growl was also slightly
joking, because what I recognize in you AND in me is the "teacher" mode
that sometimes over-explains.  It was a pre-caffeine moment for me too.

Off to less febrifaciant moments.  Another great word in the column with
feckless is "febrifuge," an agent that reduces a fever, and which
should be sprinkled liberally, I think, on my computer before I type.

Sally