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Old 16-September-2007, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 01101001 View Post
It surely wasn't my intended meaning. Next time, should it come up, I'll try to remember to use missed, as less open to an unfortunate misinterpretation. I meant to allow for skipping of the demo by virtue of necessity, like illness. That I recall, I never skipped a class for an illegitimate reason, so it's not the primary connotation of the word for me.

It was a struggle for me to understand the question, knowing that this is a common demonstration. I wondered how someone could have seen that demo and still asked that question. Thinking, on those lines, voicing them, I suspected it had been missed (right word?) and proceeded to find similar on the Net. I thought it added something, it helped -- until m1omg came back with a clarification that confused me further.

I saw the oxygen-concentration demos at a young age, grade school, when fire makes a great teaching tool. Is it college material now? Yikes!
I'm not going to debate this... I have better things to do with my life than debate every post I make here. You may not have meant that way, but to some casual observers, that's how it looks. If posters want to more careful consider their word choice in the future they will... if not they won't.

Personally I think that you are willing to debate this issue shows how many regular posters here are ready to debate the smallest point rather than consider that suggesting that a comment should not have been made.