Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 16)

Hendrik van Rooyen mail at microcorp.co.za
Fri May 18 03:00:26 EDT 2007


"Beliavsky" <be.. at aol.com> wrote:

> On May 16, 2:45 pm, "Cameron Laird" <python-... at phaseit.net> wrote:
> > QOTW:  "Sometimes you just have to take the path of least distaste". - Grant
> > Edwards
> >
> > "I want to choose my words carefully here, so I'm not misunderstood.
>
> <rest snipped>
>
> I think Cameron Laird does a good job with the Python digest but
> blundered here. Why did he highlight a foul comment having nothing to
> do with Python?
>

Because its funny - you normally only say "I choose my words carefully", when
you are about to say something that can be easily misconstrued, or that is
technically difficult to follow - That particular preamble prepares you mentally
for something difficult, and the coarse comment that follows is in such contrast
that it had me ROTFLMAO

- Hendrik




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