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Vivi-Section Has anyone any idea what has happened to the Rocky Mountain Section's website? It's been inaccessible for weeks now...
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Do you mean this?
http://www.rms-usfa.org/
Works fine from here. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- B. Russel
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings, however, is justice. -- H. L. Mencken
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Ah, they have changed addresses without telling anyone!
Used to be
http://www.santafenet.com/rms/
Thanks for the new link.
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...and kudos for the thread title. As an avid NYTimes X-word-er, I'd say it's a gem!  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- B. Russel
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings, however, is justice. -- H. L. Mencken
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Hi!
Dav3ey wrote:
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...and kudos for the thread title. As an avid NYTimes X-word-er, I'd say it's a gem!
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Draws a blank stare from me - I guess that I donīt have the right cultural references to get it. Can you explain the joke?
Confused in Sweden,
Peter Gustafsson
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The title uses "vivi-", a latin stem refering to "living" with "section".
The purpose of the thread was to ask whether the web site for a certain section of a fencing organization was "alive" or "dead". (Inquartata couldn't get the website, so to him it was dead.) His use: vivi-section?="is the section alive?"
However, "vivisection" itself is an english word with a far grimmer meaning, specifically, to disect a living being for scientific research.
"Say something witty. About me."
"The king is not a subject."
[pause & laughter]
"Was that a pun?"
"No your majesty. It was a play on words."
"Oh, OK."
--Ridicule The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- B. Russel
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings, however, is justice. -- H. L. Mencken
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