[Sca-cooks] Phyllo definition

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Huette von Ahrens wrote:

>
> --- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius1 at verizon.net>  
> wrote:
>
>
>> My favorite is when people forget that the OED is basically a
>> glorified Wikipedia, originally created by a committee of amateurs
>> which included one guy in a padded cell, and the ultimate Open Source
>> document. I understand my suggested change got through, anyway.
>
> Boy, you are talking heresy here... You make the OED sound like it  
> is or was never
> checked or documented at all.

Umm, I don't recall saying anything of the kind...

>   How wrong you are!  The first edition took more than
> fifty years to compile.
>
> And are you saying that Schizophrenics aren't capable of making  
> valid contibutions
> to a dictionary or science?  Because John Nash was a Schizophrenic  
> and he was rewarded
> with a Nobel Prize for his work.
>
> William Chester Minor was a Yale graduate

Loath as I am to cast aspersions on Yale, I must in good conscience  
refer you to their most currently famous and influential alumnus.  
PTBTBTBTBPPPHHTBTB!!!

> and a surgeon, who was a Schizophrenic [although
> he wasn't diagnosed as such until late in his life, when such a  
> diagnosis was understood].
> But he wasn't kept in a "padded cell".

Not permanently, no. Just at various times. He was also a murderer,  
as I recall, in case anyone was wondering what he was  
institutionalized for without a diagnosis of schizophrenia. I  
actually rather like the man, and consider it a terrible shame and  
waste that contemporary medical science wasn't able to do more for  
him. But he was what he was.

>   According to Wikipedia, "As he had his army pension
> and was not judged dangerous, he was given rather comfortable  
> quarters and was able to buy and read books."

Are you sure you want to rely on the source I was comparing the OED  
to when I made it sound like it wasn't checked? ;-)

> Heresy!  You speak heresy!  I demand that you be tested in a trial  
> by fire!  You will only
> be exonerated if you can jump into a hot oven and come out again  
> unscathed!

Been there, done that. That was even an entirely separate occasion  
from the time I singed my eyebrows.

Adamantius



"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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