seattle.politics

wbyeats@ wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:20:36 +0200, dangerman
> < @ > wrote:
>
>> wbyeats@ wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:44:32 +0200, dangerman
>>> < @ > wrote:
>>>
>>>> wbyeats@ wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:24:13 +0200, dangerman
>>>>> < @ > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...because their victims are more dead than the victims of your
>>>>>>>> run-of-the-mill murderers.
>>>>>>> More dead? I didn't realize there were degrees of deadness.
>>>>>> whoosh.
>>>>> The sound of wind between your ears? You're either dead or you're not
>>>>> dead. Just ask the mothers of kids killed by gang violence. Sorry,
>>>>> Mom, you're kid was black so he's already half dead so it doesn't
>>>>> matter. If you really believe your crap, go on down to Florence and
>>>>> Normandie and spout off, cracker.
>>>> Did you really not get the point? Let me spell it out for you. I was
>>>> making the point that the victims of gang terrorism are JUST AS DEAD as
>>>> the victims of Islamic terrorism. Gosh, a guy using the pen name WB
>>>> Yeats who doesn't know irony when he sees it.
>>> Irony? Okay.
>>>
>>> Quote: ....because their victims are more dead than the victims of
>>> your run-of-the-mill murderers. Is that the irony? Sounds like a
>>> statement with no intimation they're equally dead but what the hell?
>>> If you say so.
>> I don't think Yeats used smiley faces either. You didn't actually read
>> him, did you.
>
> Excuse me sir. What smiley faces? Try referencing the right posts, Mr.
> Irony Bored. You don't really want to get in a pissing contest about
> Yeats. Stick to a Child's Garden of Verses.

I'm not in a pissing contest. It's clear you can't detect irony when you
read it, so how you appreciate Yeats, I don't know. It's a miracle.