[QUOTE=cheesehead;356651]It needed to be announced because it was a [I]change[/I] in LA Times policy. They previously had not screened out letters that were counterfactual about this particular subject.[/QUOTE]
Yes, policy change, loose change, change the bedding, we're all going through the winds of change. And the climate? Well, that's just the climate, isn't it?:wink:

[QUOTE=LaurV;356639]Well, contrary to the global warming, the gravity is true... [/QUOTE]

Not trying to get you banned, or anything. I'm just curious about Bangkok's altitude above sea level. :whistle:

[QUOTE=cheesehead;356651]It needed to be announced because it was a [i]change[/i] in LA Times policy. They previously had not screened out letters that were counterfactual about this particular subject.[/QUOTE]

Still not getting it - read the wording carefully.

I seem to be the only one amused by the concept of "climate denial". (Maybe the rest of you are from the moon, where such a position is more sensible.)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;356698]Still not getting it - read the wording carefully.

I seem to be the only one amused by the concept of "climate denial". (Maybe the rest of you are from the moon, where such a position is more sensible.)[/QUOTE]
I think cheesehead got it.
What doesn't show up when you quote someone is italicized text.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;356701]I think cheesehead got it.
What doesn't show up when you quote someone is italicized text.[/QUOTE]

I saw him use the key word, but it seemed to describe the paper's policies. If Richard did indeed get it, kudos for deadpanning it this way.

[Ah, and only just now read Bian-E's edit-comment in #1046). Too much slipping-in of the Italian texters today. Mamma mia!

[QUOTE=ewmayer;356702]I saw him use the key word, but it seemed to describe the paper's policies. If Richard did indeed get it, kudos for deadpanning it this way.

[Ah, and only just now read Bian-E's edit-comment in #1046). Too much slipping-in of the Italian texters today. Mamma mia![/QUOTE]
He'll be delighted with the kudos, I'm sure.

Kieren, consider your challenge executed.:smile:

[QUOTE=only_human;356628]Thank you.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][I]Last fiddled with by only_human on 18 Oct 13 at 00:14 Reason: Deleted Iddlesleigh ideation about a preponderance of "P"s in my scrivening. [/I][/QUOTE]Hah! I just esPied the RfE re-Produced above. I now better perceive your plenitude of "P"s! :P

EDIT: Well Played, Brian! Bravo, me Bucko! :chappy:

[QUOTE=kladner;356707]Hah! I just esPied the RfE re-Produced above. I now better perceive your plenitude of "P"s! :P

EDIT: Well Played, Brian! Bravo, me Bucko! :chappy:[/QUOTE]
A veritable P soup. One time on a trip in California, the fog got so bad that we pulled over and had [URL="http://www.peasoupandersens.net/"]Anderson's Pea Soup[/URL]. I was just a kid and my father tried denying inclement weather in front of his face, up to a dangerous U-turn in fog, but the soup was good.

It is amazing what things people will deny. One news-hour, I saw someone demonstrating his flame-resistant roof tiles with a blow-torch and the tiles caught fire -- contrary to his fervent denials.

In affairs of the heart, many people deny the situation when caught transgressing, even to the point of getting others to question their own perceptions.

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch"]Monty Python's dead parrot sketch[/URL] grew out of real life experience with a car salesman.[QUOTE]The "Dead Parrot" sketch was inspired by a "Car Salesman" sketch that Palin and Chapman had done in How to Irritate People. In it, Palin played a car salesman who repeatedly refused to admit that there was anything wrong with his customer's (Chapman) car, even as it fell apart in front of him. That sketch was based on an actual incident between Palin and a car salesman.[/QUOTE]
Recently we got denials that the economy has a button that must not be pressed. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2010/11/08/lhc_heavy_ions_and_button_tomfoolery/"]Reg hack in large-red-button LHC control room incident[/URL][QUOTE]An incident during preparations for the change to heavy-ion operation, in which a visiting journalist* was unable to resist the temptation to press a large red button during a tour of the control room at the ATLAS experiment, appears not to have had any serious effects. [...]

*Your correspondent, in fact (cough) - during a press trip to CERN last month. Having pressed the frankly irresistible button there was an initially alarming moment when a rotating red emergency light fired up, seeming to presage a brief and violent future of being trampled by stampeding boffins and hacks, earthquakes as the planet began to implode, possible unpleasantness featuring time-dislocated dinosaurs or parallel-universe Nazis etc, all abruptly ended by oblivion at the hands of the burgeoning monopole-custard boundary, black hole or collaptic devil particle soup event horizon etc.

(Emergency flasher goes off at CERN's Large Hadron Collider facility
Uh oh)

However in a case of life imitating art, the relevant console then effectively lit up a tiny sign saying "please do not press this button again" in Douglas Adams style and the alarm light went out.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=kladner;356674]Not trying to get you banned, or anything. I'm just curious about Bangkok's altitude above sea level. :whistle:[/QUOTE]
Who give a drop of flood about bkk? People from here go there periodically to shit around the parliament building (this is not a joke :smile:) every time when the politicians there promote some stupid law. Over one million ppl moved from Bkk to here around after the floods last year. No need any global warming to erase that city from the maps, locals there are able to do this by themselves, very efficient.

To answer (partially) to your question, my current altitude is 380 meters. If the story about global warming is true, then I will move to Siberia. The hell for some will be heaven for others...

380 meters ought to be safe from the sea for the remaining lifetimes of those reading or writing here. However, it might well be that Siberian latitudes become much more temperate. Then again, who really knows how particular areas will shake out in an ongoing warm up?

[QUOTE=Brian-E;356703]He'll be delighted with the kudos, I'm sure.

Kieren, consider your challenge executed.:smile:[/QUOTE]Wrong.

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[QUOTE=ewmayer;356698]Still not getting it - read the wording carefully.

[/QUOTE]Ernst,

I did read it carefully, the first time.

(* sigh *) I was doing you the favor of supposing (i.e., [I]trusting[/I]) that you'd accidentally omitted or substituted a word or words, not that you were being deliberately tricky.

So now, I guess we all need to assume that any word of what you post (or omit) may be part of an attempted deception of readers. We need to carefully scrutinize your every message -- every line, every word -- if we want not to be deceived by you.

Your habitual deceptions corrode trust -- are you proud of that?

Is it just that you get such a kick out of deceiving folks that you don't care about knowledgeable trust and value only mistaken trust by folks who don't know you well enough?