[lbo-talk] Max Sawicky signs off

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Aug 28 12:45:24 PDT 2007


Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
>Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: ravi wrote:
> >Al Gore?!!
>
> >"?" means *blunder*
> >"!" means *best*
>but what does "?!!" mean?


>astonishment and incredulity.

I think you have it right. *Incredulity* at a seeming blunder("?") plus *astonishment* when the move turns out not to be a blunder at all, nor even a clever though refutable trap("?!"), but actually is an irrefutable brilliancy("!!").

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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