Re: 185:9: INVALID, +2.0

From: Richard S. Holmes (rsholmes_at_MailBox.Syr.Edu)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 19:53:03 PDT


"Ed Murphy" <emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com> writes:

> You want un-Stylish?  Huh?  Do ya?
>
> ALL FUTURE RULES ARE INVALID.
>
> Now *that's* un-Stylish.
>
> What's that?  You think you can weasel out of it, because this rule Sucks?
>
> Well, I think your Suckiness rule is invalid.  So there.  Nyah.
>
> I shall now post a number so large that it is a waste of your bandwidth
> to download it.
>
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>
> No, there's nothing else but the signature, twit.  You can stop reading now.
>
>
> --
> Ed Murphy <emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com>          "I'm not sure I can go through
> http://members.fortunecity.com/emurphy/      with it.  Leave, I mean."
>
> --
> Rule Date: 2002-06-01 16:59:04 GMT
>

JUDGEMENT: We've been down this road before, haven't we?  Rule 185.5
was invalidated because of its "Future rules shall all be INVALID due
to inconsistancy with this rule" provision.  And now we have "ALL
FUTURE RULES ARE INVALID".  I see no reason why one should be VALID
while the other is not.

Yet there are those who argued 185.5 should have been VALID, and their
arguments are not without merit.

Then again, no one proposed overturning that judgement, did they?

STYLE: Since this is INVALID, it may very well have positive style.
And indeed, this rule goes right through the nadir of unstylishness
and out the other side; it's so very unstylish, it's the height of
style.  Except, of course, that it loses a style point for being
INVALID.

--
- Rich Holmes
  Syracuse, NY

--
Rule Date: 2002-06-02 02:53:23 GMT


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