Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andy Walker Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Mr Flibble Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:58:45 +0100 Organization: Not very much Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="839074c26f82aa1cfea55ea2db9e15e9"; logging-data="451743"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ZAvLrSj/tjYPk8sunm6in" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:R5HTagGx47lqoqOc/oz/ntJjIlQ= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: On 22/04/2025 15:57, Mr Flibble wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:43:27 +0100, Andy Walker wrote: >> The "real" Mr Flibble is a malevolent penguin. I wonder why >> contributors take him so seriously? If you want to debate with a >> penguin, that's your prerogative, but to me it makes more sense to add >> several pinches of salt and smile or groan as appropriate to everything >> he writes. He has a knack for writing things that are just about >> plausible, which is enviable, but one response to anything interesting >> is surely enough? > Mr Flibble is very cross. He shouldn't be. As hinted above, being able to write successful satire is a rare skill. But it loses its point if too many people take it seriously. -- Andy Walker, Nottingham. Andy's music pages: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music Composer of the day: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music/Composers/Kotzwara