Klarinet Archive - Posting 000986.txt from 2004/03

From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:48:20 -0500

Pity that one doesn't find the curse until it is read and pressing the
delete key is about as useful as running to Bill Clinton to protect your
virtue.

I too enjoy his post and his website. Those things do not give license for
foul language nor do they require my approval of what is wrong. Different
opinions do not remove the right to oppose someone's actions.

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Wojtowicz" <ewoj@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] not just the music department

> I love Tony's colorful and intelligent posts. He brings much more
thoughtful
> discussion to this list than most. If you object, remember, that is why
God
> invented the delete key.
>
> "To those who curse and are swift of feet, you may respond by pressing
> delete"
> from the book of Jobs (Steve)
>
> Ed
>
> > From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@-----.net>
> > Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:52:16 -0600
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Subject: Re: [kl] not just the music department
> >
> > I would urge the list manager to remove Tony Pay from the list for the
use
> > of profanity in his posts. I can handle off topic posts, conservatives,
> > Republicans, and resonite clarinets, but I am deeply disturbing at
reading a
> > post and having to endure cursing. TV is bad enough with what they
force
> > you to watch during commercials, but this list is no place for foulness.
> >
> > "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, their feet are swift to
shed
> > blood, destruction and misery are in their paths, and the path of peace
they
> > have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans
3:14-18
> >
> > If Tony's list of adjectives to describe the clarient is so short that
he
> > must curse it, perhaps he should consider playing something else, such
as
> > the radio.
> >
> > Gary Drennan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [kl] not just the music department
> >
> >
> >> In message <26559-40576586-6391@-----.net>
> >> ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya) wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was wrong to include my comment about learning handicaps when I
posted
> >>> about schools who have dropped music.
> >>>
> >>> The 'proper' distribution of resources between disabled and
non-disabled
> >>> is not on-topic here, and I was wrong to bring it up.
> >>>
> >>> We do not want another "amendment' blow-up on this list.
> >>
> >> Well, the problem I had was that I didn't understand what you wrote.
> >>
> >> You said,
> >>
> >>> Although this doesn't relate to music, test scores of special
education
> >>> students (learning disabled) are penalized for using calculators and
> >>> dictionaries during an exam. So one of our school districts is
> > considering
> >>> taking calculators and dictionaries away from special education
students
> > in
> >>> order to improve the _district's_ overall test scores -- even though
the
> >>> special education students will do worse in their tests. Poorer
> >>> performance, better scores. Talk about double-speak.
> >>
> >> Can you explain a bit more clearly? Did you mean:
> >>
> >>> ...one of our school districts is considering taking calculators and
> >>> dictionaries away from ALL students in order to improve the
_district's_
> >>> overall test scores -- even though the special education students will
> > do
> >>> [much] worse in their tests.
> >>
> >> ?
> >>
> >> Of course, I know that some people here will DIE of HEART ATTACKS if
you
> > talk
> >> about something important -- like understanding an argument -- that
isn't
> >> about the fucking CLARINET.
> >>
> >> Let them.
> >>
> >> Tony
> >> --
> >> _________ Tony Pay
> >> |ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd tony.p@-----.org
> >> | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE http://classicalplus.gmn.com/artists
> >> tel/fax 01865 553339
> >>
> >> ... If he learns from his mistakes, pretty soon he'll know everything!
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