Ben Franklin: Slaveowner to Slavery Abolitionist

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[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "you got embarrassed by your own off-piste argument"

BTW, "off-piste"? Really?
So now I'll add "off-piste" to my collection of jeffersondem's odd logisms:

• chivvy
• tally book
• on the prod
• mess and gom
• toggling
• off-piste

That's a pretty amazing vocabulary for, as you claim, "a mere schoolboy".
So, which 1950s era movie does "off-piste" come from?

[jeffersondem]

“As for where you've disrespected Madison, I refer you to your post #251 . . .”

It lingers on in the public memory that after my post #251 came post #252 in which a recognized board thought-leader found: “Your comment regarding Madison's letter to Trist is reasonable, or it would be if . . .”

The writer of the compliment used the last half of the sentence to turn history into its opposite - possibly in jest. Regardless, at that time there was no faux outrage over the candid discussion of what Madison wrote to Trist.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "The writer of the compliment used the last half of the sentence to turn history into its opposite - possibly in jest.
Regardless, at that time there was no faux outrage over the candid discussion of what Madison wrote to Trist. "

Of course there was righteous outrage, which you concealed by simply deleting it from your quote:

post #252 to jeffersondem: "Your comment regarding Madison's letter to Trist is reasonable, or it would be if it didn't sound so much like jeffersondem calling Madison a "yapping dog" for his old age."

So let's review: we have the fact of Madison's own words, "telum imbelle" a weak weapon, which give us the mental picture of an old knight, tottering but still lifting his now heavy sword for one last battle.
With those words Madison says to us: boys, you mere schoolboys and young men, stand beside me with your own powerful swords, help me fight these 'unhappy aberrations'.

So how does jeffersondem respond to Madison's call to arms?
Jeffersondem picks up his own sword, waves it wildly in the air, shouting out his battle-crys ("chivvy, mess & gom, off-piste," etc.) and then, turning, stabs Madison in the heart: "take that, you telum imbelle", says jeffersondem.

But, we can be thankful that at least, in a sign of his utmost respect for the now dying Madison, while driving his sword into Madison's heart, jeffersondem refrains from even once accusing Madison of "yapping".

[jeffersondem]

“So now I'll add “off-piste” to my collection of jeffersondem’s odd logisms . . .”

I have again taught you a new vocabulary word without first ensuring you have the ability to use it correctly. No doubt this will launch a boomerang sequence.

Mostly I just blame myself.

[Albion Wilde]

There's plenty more of your anti-Trumping bile out there...

I must agree, since it was so obnoxious I made a written note of it, and I just consulted my notes from the campaign to make sure. Hope you have changed your ways, Doodle.

[DoodleDawg]

Hope you have changed your ways, Doodle.

In the immortal words of Popeye, "I yam what I yam and dats all what I yam."

[Albion Wilde]

I take that as a “no,” then.