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Gary c Tesser

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  1. What if that bylaws provision were deleted first? Do you say that the US Constitution's Article V (since they didn't have a "5" when the Constitution was written, Arabic numerals were introduced in the 1920's for labelling bottles of one-fifth of a gallon -- I know this because I read it on the Internet just after I wrote it), where it says "The Congress ... shall propose amendments ... provided ... that no State, without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate", could be amended out, as easily as anything else, like the right to drink or women vote (but not drink women, good heavens I was kidding the other day about cannibalism and zombies*)? _________ *And probably kidding about it now too.
  2. I'd look it up but Richard Brown was going to buy me a copy of PL in San Antonio in 2003 but Rod Davidson and his sister went and dragged us off to lunch or dinner, day after day, and we never got around to it. Also it was September and my birthday six months away (unlike now).
  3. I don't get it, are these two statements somehow consistent??
  4. Only the question of "You don't fire me, I quit" vs. "No, we're darn well firing you."
  5. Until this post of Godelfan's, this take would not have occurred to me, but now -- sorry, Gandalf -- I think I like it.
  6. I'm overlooking the requirement for this in RONR: someone point it out, please?
  7. A rule of order, yeah, but protecting a minority, individual members, absentees, President Trump and some lost puppies and kittens.
  8. On topic thread robertsrules.forumflash.com/index.php?/topic/29577-initial-motion/ , , right now the OP is labelled "Posted 6 hours ago"; the second post (i.e., the first reply), Kim Goldsworthy's, is labelled "Posted 4 hours ago," and likewise the next, Guest Zev's, "4 hours ago"; but then the next, Hieu H Huynh's, says "Posted 1 [sic, "one"] minute ago," but the post after his, OP Travis's, thanking him, is labelled "Posted 9 minutes ago". (The next post, mine, is labelled "Posted just now.") What in sam hill? ______________ N. B. The thread title is a pun. Ghaaah, I hate puns.
  9. Like, if it were you, you would gain the attention of the presiding officer (like maybe gently slapping your adorable pudgy ruddy cheek a couple times till the chair muttered "Huh, wha [speaking Californian]? -- oh, that's me"), rise, and address the assembly, saying, ~"Your presiding officer ("Huh, wha [speaking Californian]? -- oh, that's me") is pleased to move KG."~ Analogously, I, as a New Yorker, would jump up, shove the currently speaking member out the nearest window, gain the attention of the presiding officer by stabbing my left eye out with a howitzer, and say, "If it please Her Majesty, I, her obedient servant, move GcT" (note no quasi-quotes: this has gotta be verbatim. It's New York.). Former US President George W. Bush would say ~"Wull, y'all know 'A''s golburn mobal, mobal, mobal, um, mobaloni, GWB "~. Former US president Hussein Barack Hussein Hussein Hussein Hussein Obama Hussein hereby sign this Executive Order shoving Goldsworthy and Tesser out the nearest window, but it's legal, because drones will do it. And some day maybe I'll figure out what current US president Trump would say if I could ever figure out whatever he says because I can't make heads or tails of that impenetrable Queens accent.
  10. So, then, regretfully risking being tedious, what's the significance of "full"?
  11. Guest Linda Regalado, given all the digressions, can we take it that we have told you what you want to know?
  12. Nope, I was thinking of something else this time. Really -- that somewhere, and not obscurely (such as maybe hidden in Section 41, the bete noir of aspiring parliamentarians like me) the book says that the officers do whatever the organization orders (i.e., with a main motion, and pretty much as a p. 18 Standing Rule).
  13. No, of course not: But I hold Rev Ed to a higher standard. Which he has, over and over again, exemplarily earned. _______ N. B. That can be taken as a compliment. My mother, who had much more experience teaching professionally than I did (i.e., decades, compared to zero), used to complain that I was a monstrously hard marker. ... She ... um.
  14. (I was worked up. That's what shouting is for. And I only capitalized two words. Rev Ed is so capable of much more than this, so when he falls back on habits that I, and others, have gently addressed him on (or, OK, taken him to task, or even taken a strip off his back, but really, I don't think it often came to that), I get exasperated. And for pity's sake, he's a canad. He should know better.)
  15. Great Steamin' Cobnuts, I thought the rest of youse was gettin' paid!
  16. (LOL) What if it's the secretary, or anyone else? Is there any significance ("qualitative difference," for college graduates) to whether it's the secretary or anyone else who maintains the guest register?
  17. Ooo, so does this make a qualitative difference (and if so, what)?
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