[Tango-L] Shocked

[Shahrukh Merchant]

Klaus Radek <tangowien at googlemail.com> wrote:
> shocked a little even, to see how unrespectful people were to Damian
> (Nougts) - even to making him leave here!. I can tell you he is a
... rest of much-discussed post deleted.

"Michael" <tangomaniac at cavtel.net> wrote:
> The moderator should  the originator and "his sister" off the list.

(I assume the missing word was "kick" or "throw" ...). I was puzzled at 
that, since the reason appeared to be (echoed by a few others) his 
"crime" of the use of irony (as they used to call it), without using a 
smiley (also as they used to call it before it became "emoticon"). I'd 
be more likely to defend it as a fast-fading art form (perhaps even in 
the same category as the cabeceo).

But he (Michael) later clarified:
> I thnk you're missing an important point. Klaus named a dancer by
> name, Damian (Noughts), and described his dancing.

And that indeed does justify a slap on the wrist, more so because Mr. 
Noughts (reports of whose departure from Tango-L seem to have been 
greatly exaggerated) appears to teach professionally, and this may be a 
back-door attempt at mud-slinging rivalry. Please consider your wrist 
slapped--no, not you Damian, but Klaus--but keep up the irony, if you 
can do without maligning others, and it may help to include a smiley, 
even if it takes away half the fun ... oops almost forgot to include a :-).

So lighten up everybody, study up on rhetorical devices (I'll study up 
on run-on sentences and their avoidance), make sure to include some 
Tango content in each of your posts (administrator is exempt, though 
hey, I did mention "cabeceo" ...), and PLEASE DELETE ALL THE PREVIOUS 
TRAILING THREAD IN YOUR REPLIES (oops, sorry, didn't mean to shout).

Shahrukh