jimmenegay{at}sbcglobal.net (Jim Menegay) wrote in
news:ca2sho$uv3$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 

> john_SPAM{at}wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) wrote in message
> news:... 
>> Perplexed in Peoria  wrote:
>> > "John Wilkins" 
wrote in message
>> > news:c9nhga$ism$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
>  [snip]
>> > > Teleonomy is goal-seeking behavior, teleology is goal-directed
>> > > behavior. Shannon building a telegraphy system for Bell is 
>> > > teleological, because Shannon is a gaol-directed system.
>> > 
>> > Surely all of Shannon is not gaol directed - only the heavy
>> > drinking, football watching portion of the population.  ;-)
>> 
>> Claude Shannon was a population? Are you going all Minskyan on me?
>  [snip]
> 
> I chose to misinterpret your second "Shannon" as a reference to 
> the region, rather than the man.  Perhaps I would have been clearer
> if I has said "rugger playing" instead of "football
watching".
> 
> http://www.shannondev.ie/VintageRugby/index.html
> 
> That would have made "heavy drinking" redundant, as well.

I think  John did not recognize that he had misspelled "goal" - and I am 
not sure that Australians readily recognize gaol as jail - but then most 
Americans don't either. I for one thought your deliberate 
misinterpretation  was quite clever, even though I have never heard of 
Shannon as a region, and tend to immediately assume that football refers 
to the American variant, rather than either association football or rugby 
football :-)


Yours,

Bill Morse
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