Need cleanup advice for multiline string

[Carl Banks]

On Aug 17, 8:49 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 8:04 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 17, 5:40 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 17, 4:06 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Aug 17, 10:03 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic... at sequans.com>
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> > > > > I'm no English native, but I already heard women/men referring to a
> > > > > group as "guys", no matter that group gender configuration. It's even
> > > > > used for group composed exclusively of women. Moreover it looks like a
> > > > > *very* friendly form, so there is really nothing to worry about it.
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> > > > I like how being very friendly means calling people after a guy who
> > > > tried to blow up the English Parliament.
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> > > So?
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> > I also like how making an amusing pointless observation
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> Pointless, yes, but what was amusing abot the observation?

The irony that in being friendly that you're calling someone a
terrorist.  I guess I shouldn't have expected you to get it.


> > gets people all huffy.
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> That wasn't huffy. You want to see huffy, make a wisecrack
> comparing mothballs to Zyklon B, you'll REALLY get a load
> of huffy replies.
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> > (BTW, lest anyone is not aware, that is the origin of the word "guy",
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> It most certainly is not.

My dictionary disagrees with you.


> Maybe the origin of that
> word's useage as a genric reference to a male, but
> you didn't say that.
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> > this was not some random association.)
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> Penny for the guy?

Probably that phrase was part of the word's gradual common adoption.


Carl Banks