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Daniel Siksay Started conversation May 23, 2001
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A564374
I posted an article with the same title a bit earlier back, but, unfortunately, it was not exactly what people wanted. It was "too fictional". So here is the new article that attempts to explain why humans have the uncanny ability to state and restate the very, very obvious.
Thanks,
Dan Siksay
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 24, 2001
Daniel, I was fine with this article until you introduced this Daniel Siksay bloke. I thought, who's he? Is he a name I should recognise? This distracted me so much I can't remember how the article finished.
I think you'll have to restate it (differently).
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MaW Posted May 24, 2001
Make it longer. I like long Guide Entries.
Maybe I should become a Scout...
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jun 9, 2001
hmm, and what about the purpose of finding something that anybody involved can agree with? I think it's necessary, if only to start a conversation in the first place without stepping on people's feet. If you use it as a gambit then you can check before unintentionally annoying people by starting right into it.
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Jul 14, 2001
Here's yet another one where the author's been AWOL for awhile and the entry still needs some work. What say y'all?
Mikey
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 15, 2001
Well, nice weather, isn't it 
And those taxes. Ever increasing!
'nother one, seconded
Bossel
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xyroth Posted Jul 16, 2001
nice article, but some times it is necessary to state the obvious.
some example include:
slavery is wrong
the concentration camps for ww2 existed
in these cases, not only does it need to be stated, but it also is needed to dispell deliberate fear, uncertainty and doubt that some people try and instill in some subjects.
but mostly, stating the obvious doesn't help 
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Mycroft Posted Jul 16, 2001
Could this entry be subsumed into something a long the lines of 'A Beginner's Guide to Small Talk'?
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 16, 2001
Yes I think so. If you're having plans then why not take it up?
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Mycroft Posted Jul 16, 2001
I have no plans as I'm no good at it. All I know about small talk comes from what George Mikes' books have to say on the subject, and it's not out of copyright
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You can call me TC Posted Sep 6, 2001
I wouldn't mind but it's a subject I get so heated on, I don't think it would be an objective piece.
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Flea Market: A564374 - Stating and Restating the Obvious
- 1: Daniel Siksay (May 23, 2001)
- 2: Gnomon - time to move on (May 24, 2001)
- 3: MaW (May 24, 2001)
- 4: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jun 9, 2001)
- 5: Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! (Jul 14, 2001)
- 6: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jul 15, 2001)
- 7: xyroth (Jul 16, 2001)
- 8: h2g2 auto-messages (Jul 16, 2001)
- 9: Mycroft (Jul 16, 2001)
- 10: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jul 16, 2001)
- 11: Mycroft (Jul 16, 2001)
- 12: You can call me TC (Sep 6, 2001)
- 13: h2g2 auto-messages (Oct 15, 2001)
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