On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:29:11 -0600, "Snag" wrote:

Ed Huntress wrote:
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 17:07:12 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:13:48 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:
You were once so rational. Now you are even forgetting how to
spell, which is a sad decline for an editor.

"playwrite" instead of playwright
"hoard of gang-bangers" instead of horde

Oooh...a grammarist. g I don't edit my posts, Jim. Neither do I
get
on people for spelling or grammatical errors here, unless they're
really, really funny. d8-)

"A person who writes plays is a playwright, not a playwrite, but the
act of writing plays is usually spelled playwriting."
Ed Huntress

-"That's what I meant, fer chrissake...."
-"oh, cripes. This must be the stroke talking.."
-Ed Huntress

That's Gunner's stroke. As he's done several times lately, he's
"corrected" what I've said...by saying exactly the same thing himself.
It's something I don't remember him doing in the past, and it's
worrisome.

Now, are you going to do a Gunner and ask for a "cite"? There's one
right there, if you follow the thread back a couple of posts.

But the bigger question is, what is your point? Are you trying to
argue by pointing out spelling errors? Is that how far you've sunk,
with nothing else to grab onto?

I think so. Your arguments, like those of the gun nutz in general, are
DOA. You're floundering and sputtering over the recent polls. They
have you worried.

They should.

I would ask about the demographics of those polled . Equal weight and
numbers for midwest farmers , Wyoming cowboys , NYC urbanites , Arkansas
hillbillies , etc . As Sam Clemens said , there're 3 kinds - liars , damn
liars , and statisticians .

When you get 5 or 6 polls from different sources, ranging from ABC to
Fox News, and they all say roughly the same thing, it's time to stop
trying to second-guess their sampling methods.

Those polls are all run by experts who know exactly how to do a random
sample, Snag. You won't get anywhere by trying to pick holes in them,
except to dig a hole of denial for yourself.

--
Ed Huntress