- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:01:23 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Well *I* certainly viewed it as jokey, especially given the context (if you'll pardon the expression). But I certainly second Brian's comment about the respect in which we hold each other. At the same time, I also have to say that some of our "parliaments" have a somewhat rowdier history than the one you're referring to. For example: "On May 22, 1856, the "world's greatest deliberative body" became a combat zone. In one of the Senate's most dramatic and deeply ominous moments, a House member entered the chamber and beat a senator into unconsciousness." [This was after the senator had characterized another as "noise some, squat, and nameless animal ..."] http://www.senate.gov/learning/min_3c.html "On February 22, 1902, John McLaurin, South Carolina's junior senator raced into the Senate chamber and pronounced that state's senior senator, Ben Tillman , guilty of "a willful, malicious, and deliberate lie." Standing nearby, Tillman spun around and punched McLaurin squarely in the jaw." http://www.senate.gov/learning/min_4f.html Then there's the April, 1850 incident: "Two weeks later, [Vice-President Millard] Fillmore's worst fears were realized. When he ruled Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton out of order, Kentucky's Henry Clay , no friend of Benton, angrily charged that the vice president's action was an attack on the power and dignity of the Senate. The ensuing debate sparked a bitter exchange between Benton and Mississippi Senator Henry Foote . As the burly Benton pushed aside his chair and moved menacingly up the center aisle toward the diminutive Foote, Foote pulled a pistol." http://www.senate.gov/learning/min_2ii.html --Frank Brian McBride wrote: > At 10:38 20/03/2002 +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > [...] > >> Liar, (or should that be "balls" :) ) > > > A little unparliamentary that. I hear calls of "withdraw". > > It may be a little old maidish of me, but one of the virtues this WG > has, in my view, been the respect in which members hold each other and > each others views. > > I'm sure this was meant in a jokey way, but I'd like to take the > opportunity to remind folks that's not the sort of language we have > typically used around here. > > Brian > -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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