Patrick Swayze
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Patrick Swayze
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Perhaps the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about...
Perhaps the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about...
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No, he's not dead
Don't do that. I'd already read the story on the ever-helpful local TV station site. The one that no longer gives you its TV schedule. I thought maybe you had new bad news, but in fact you don't.
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By coincidence, I saw this article a couple of hours ago:
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-988607 ... g=nefd.pop
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-988607 ... g=nefd.pop
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Re: RIP Patrick Swayze
Sir_Galahad wrote:Well, not exactly. But this is not good news.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335210,00.html
Damnit, don't DO that, Sirgy
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Aw, holy shit, don't scare people like that!
You're right; that's a very bad disease. But don't count Patrick out yet! We saw a patient for follow-up this past Monday. We treated his pancreatic cancer three years ago this month -- & he's still alive, feeling well, and looks like a million bucks! We're all pretty impressed.
BTW, it's not this guy, although Keith knows him through work:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
This is Dr. Pausch's latest update, dated yesterday:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html
We've learned a long time ago not to tell a patient "you've got such-and-such weeks or months to live"........because they often surprise us!
You're right; that's a very bad disease. But don't count Patrick out yet! We saw a patient for follow-up this past Monday. We treated his pancreatic cancer three years ago this month -- & he's still alive, feeling well, and looks like a million bucks! We're all pretty impressed.
BTW, it's not this guy, although Keith knows him through work:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
This is Dr. Pausch's latest update, dated yesterday:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html
We've learned a long time ago not to tell a patient "you've got such-and-such weeks or months to live"........because they often surprise us!
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I saw this too, and it makes me sad. Pancreatic cancer is bad news, generally, but apparently they got his really early, so there is more reason for hope than in the cases I'm familiar with. I adore that man.
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One of my favorite bloggers deliberately writes a word or two and then draws a line through it, replacing it with something funny. That would be a way to censor without complete removal. but I don't think we have it here.
I would also have resented being misled by the original header. You can't do everything in print you can do when there are facial expressions and body language to give clues. It is mean if you do this stuff on purpose, and selfish if you never consider how your words will be read by others.
I would also have resented being misled by the original header. You can't do everything in print you can do when there are facial expressions and body language to give clues. It is mean if you do this stuff on purpose, and selfish if you never consider how your words will be read by others.
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I wish we had that here too (We have it over in the BBBL, it's the (s) html tag), but I have a feeling that still wouldn't have gone over well. I'd have almost certainly left that alone, though....Ritterskoop wrote:One of my favorite bloggers deliberately writes a word or two and then draws a line through it, replacing it with something funny. That would be a way to censor without complete removal. but I don't think we have it here.
I would also have resented being misled by the original header. You can't do everything in print you can do when there are facial expressions and body language to give clues. It is mean if you do this stuff on purpose, and selfish if you never consider how your words will be read by others.
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I meant you could have altered the original without removing it. That would be a better censorship.littlebeast13 wrote:
I wish we had that here too (We have it over in the BBBL, it's the (s) html tag), but I have a feeling that still wouldn't have gone over well. I'd have almost certainly left that alone, though....
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Ritterskoop wrote:I meant you could have altered the original without removing it. That would be a better censorship.littlebeast13 wrote:
I wish we had that here too (We have it over in the BBBL, it's the (s) html tag), but I have a feeling that still wouldn't have gone over well. I'd have almost certainly left that alone, though....
lb13
Sounds like the same tactics they use to black out classified stuff in government documents!
Where's my Sharpie®.....?
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The original header wasn't very chivalrous, the fix is good.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.