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To: herb will who wrote (147547)	11/12/2001 5:27:55 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

Herb, Re: "But Dan is a tenacious and obnoxious pest on the Intel thread and hard not to ignore.He is a master of diatribe and a total waist of time. If he is proven wrong he just unashamedly moves on with more dribble." Boy, do I have to give you the $100 word award! I had to look up 'diatribe', but it was well worth it. From the dictionary. di·a·tribe n. 1. A bitter, abusive denunciation. 2. A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language Word History: Listening to a lengthy diatribe may seem like a waste of time, an attitude for which there is some etymological justification. The Greek word diatrib, the ultimate source of our word, is derived from the verb diatrbein, made up of the prefix dia-, “completely,” and trbein, “to rub,” “to wear away, spend, or waste time,” “to be busy.” The verb diatrbein meant “to rub hard,” “to spend or waste time,” and the noun diatrib meant “wearing away of time, amusement, serious occupation, study,” as well as “discourse, short ethical treatise or lecture, debate, argument.” It is the serious occupation of time in discourse, lecture, and debate that gave us the first use of diatribe recorded in English (1581), in the now archaic sense “discourse, critical dissertation.” The critical element of this kind of diatribe must often have been uppermost, explaining the origin of the current sense of diatribe, “a bitter criticism.” Well done. wanna_bmw

To: herb will who wrote (147547)	11/12/2001 7:08:01 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Herb, For shame, the AMD thread has been enriched by the booter of Paul Engel, and what a boot it was, the boot sunk in deep into the nether region and he cannot sit still, now I bet that smarted. His ego was not hurt though, no matter how you squash a horseball you can never get rid of the smell. Now you have him here all day, farting and belching and generally making his feather weight ego and intellect known. As for Dave and Steve, heh heh heh, enjoy them, they are coming back often. Bill