RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> From: Dave Korn
[snip]
>   You know, it occurs to me that the english language lacks - 
> but could greatly use - a word meaning
> 
>  "That especially embarassing combination of shame and 
> humiliation you feel on realising that your first instincts 
> were absolutely sound and right and good, and you surpressed 
> them against your better judgement, and went and trusted what 
> others said, instead of your own good sense, only to discover 
> in the end that you were right in the first place and should 
> have trusted and had faith in yourself but lost confidence at 
> the last moment and went along with the consensus when you 
> should have known better that YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG 
> GODDAMMIT AND YOU ONLY MADE A FOOL OF YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU 
> WERE TRYING TO BE NICE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND ASSUME THEY 
> WEREN'T ALL GODDAM IDIOTS JUST FOR ONCE!"
> 
>   ...excuse me, I think I was starting to shout a bit towards 
> the end there....
> 
>   Hey, Corinna, you guys invented "schadenfreude", surely 
> /you/ must already have a word for this emotion?

They do, but it's just a concatenation of that entire sentence, just without
spaces or punctuation, like most German words, and hence doesn't fit on a
7x-character line.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle