XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:07:56 -0400, Gary McGath    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 3/28/24 12:14 PM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:46:50 -0400, Tim Illingworth    
   >> wrote:   
   >>    
   >>> On 3/27/2024 7:47 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains. Russia has   
   >>>> been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> pt   
   >>>>   
   >>> December 1814 not count?   
   >>    
   >> As a "nigglened edge case", it would. If it had happened and was not   
   >> part of the War of 1812 which, in a time when communications were far   
   >> from instantaneous, dragged on for a bit.   
   >>    
   >> And thanks for illustrating that even a clear point can be ignored by   
   >> people fanatically insistent on refuting it.   
   >   
   >And now you're treating getting the month wrong as being "fanatically    
   >insistent."   
      
   When did I say getting the month wrong mattered? Why /would/ it   
   matter? Either this is a "nigglened edge case" independent of the War   
   of 1812, or it is /part/ of the War of 1812, in which case it is not a   
   separate example from the War of 1812.   
      
   Nice try at a save, though. Just continue on with your fanaticism.   
      
   >*plonk*   
      
   I felt nothing. Sorry 'bout that.   
   --    
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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