[Tango-L] Thank you for the good times.

[duendedetango]

I have just ignored the inane conversations that occur with all too  
much frequency. THere is just one world, and this is all we have, so I  
try to make the best of it.

D Zarlenga, Ph.D.
>
> I would like to thank the members of Tango-L for an entertaining few  
> months reverifying what is commonly attributed to Henry Kissinger,  
> but is perhaps more properly referred to as “Sayre’s Law”:  In any  
> dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the  
> value of the stakes at issue.
>
> Since 'there is only one [tango], and none other before [it]', the  
> acceptable range of discussion on this list would appear to be quite  
> limited, and not particularly useful were I interested in expanding  
> my knowledge of dance (note that I didn't say "tango") to include  
> any aspect of the world of fake tango.  It is also quite clear that  
> tango, having been defined by a set of dancers in BaAs quite some  
> time ago, must remain culturally pure and uncontaminated by other  
> times, other places, other dances, and, more generally, by the hoi  
> polloi.
>
> It is also good to know that when the level of discourse drops to  
> serious name calling, it is conducted off-list (I hadn't realized  
> that I was a sh|thead until fairly recently, but I can go with that.)
>
> With hopes that I never have the misfortune to encounter the level  
> of intolerance shown on this list in my real life,
>
> This is D. David Thorn signing out.