Hey Ted,
It's the Mikado, who "has a little list" of people who'd surely not be
missed, including as referred by you, "the idiot who praises in enthusiastic
tone, every century but this, and every country but his own"
(They'd none of them be missed, they'd surely not be missed!!")
Mark Sonter
Radiation Control Section
NSW Environmental Protection Authority
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Rockwell [SMTP:tedrock@CPCUG.ORG]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 March 2002 13:32
To: SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM; tstead@ntirs.org;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Davis Besse comments -R. Hoffman rant
But friends, if you wanted to go to a good, authoritative source,
cyber or paper, to give people the proper view of things and respond to the
Hoffmans, where would you suggest?
No one I know writes the antidote for these things. We're always
writing for school children or politicians or English-major reporters. No
one writes a proper response to the Hoffmans. Everyone I've talked to in
the nuclear community has some reason why we should not write such things.
I don't know any other field in which this death-wish situation
exists. It reminds me of the Gilbert & Sullivan lyrics (Mikado? Iolanthe?)
about the guy "who praises every century but this and every country but his
own."
When you draft something, you're told "The public will never buy
it." So we leave them to the Hoffmans.
Ted Rockwell
Ted Rockwell
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