once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, One Angry User wrote:

> On a cloudy Wednesday, the 11th day of January, 2006, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
>
> >   You know, it occurs to me that the english language lacks - but could
> > greatly use - a word meaning
> >
> >  "That especially embarassing combination of shame and humiliation you
> > feel on realising that your first instincts were absolutely sound and
> > right and good, and you surpressed them against your better judgement,
> > and went and trusted what others said, instead of your own good sense,
> > only to discover in the end that you were right in the first place and
> > should have trusted and had faith in yourself but lost confidence at the
> > last moment and went along with the consensus when you should have known
> > better that YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG GODDAMMIT AND YOU ONLY MADE A FOOL
> > OF YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU WERE TRYING TO BE NICE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND
> > ASSUME THEY WEREN'T ALL GODDAM IDIOTS JUST FOR ONCE!"
> >
> >   ...excuse me, I think I was starting to shout a bit towards the end
> > there....
> >
> >   Hey, Corinna, you guys invented "schadenfreude", surely /you/ must
> > already have a word for this emotion?
>
> There is a word in American English that reflects most of the emotion.
> The word is "D'oh!".
>
> OAU

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> Well, the American dialect of English already has a word for this emotion.
> The word is "D'oh!".
> 	Igor

Wow!  Eerie...
	Igor
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