
Originally Posted by
mashman
Ain't blaming anyone for anything chums. It's not my phrase, I was brought up with it, I means something different to me, that you don't accept the meaning that I was using speaks volumes about how A) silly you are or B) making up fairy stories. Either way, you've got to make your own mind up, but don't go pretending that you know mine, coz you quite obviously don't. I will say what I want to say as and when I choose to say it, fascist.
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they're the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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