[meteorite-list] Pot Coloring The Kettle Black

Greg Hupe gmhupe at centurylink.net
Mon Jun 20 18:00:57 EDT 2016 

I completely agree and I 'Greg Hupe' have not posted to this thread that has nothing to do with meteorites.

I make comment here since someone earlier today mentioned 'Hupe brothers' and asked which is which... I do not post about discolored kettles and whatnot.

Best regards,
Greg Hupe

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> On Jun 20, 2016, at 11:47 PM, John Lutzon via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> 
> List,
> My apologies first....
> 
> What the Hell am I missing here?? Someone set me straight
> --or better yet Don't respond. 3 days--Enough already !
> 
> This thread is bordering on stupidity and/or insulting to
> this List.
> 
> Move On......
> 
> John
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> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pot Coloring The Kettle Black
> 
> 
> Mondegreens
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> Here is a perfect example:
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> http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/orangecrush.shtml
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Dennis Miller via Meteorite-list
> To: Dark Matter
> Cc: Meteorite List ; Bigjohn Shea
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 7:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pot Coloring The Kettle Black
> 
> 
> I want what you guys are taking!  "Pots with paint brushes calling kettles names!
> With reference to the Hupe brothers, if one was a different color, it might ease
> some of the confusion as to who is who!  You so funny!
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 19, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Dark Matter via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
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> 
> Looks like we got the band back together on this one.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Martin
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> On Sunday, June 19, 2016, Bigjohn Shea via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
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> This has strayed waaaaaaaay off the topic of meteorites...
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>> On 6/19/16 at 6:38 PM, MexicoDoug via Meteorite-list wrote:
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>> Captain Blood wrote:
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>> "Hi all, Teaching Anthropology, which includes linguistics, I began over
>> 30 years ago to collect the origins of phrases.
>> The original phrase in this instance is
>> "Pot calling the kettle black."
>> 
>> =====================================
>> You are a cunning anthropologist Michael, but I disagree. The context is not at all my affair, so I only comment on the use of 
>> Adam's original aphorism or proverb he intended. Though there are even older proverbs capturing his thought, I think he might 
>> have preferred to use the Sufi proverb from the middle ages, hundreds of years before the pot/kettle abomination existed:
>> 
>> "Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
>> are your own nature reflected in them." (Rumi ca. AD 1250)
>> 
>> The pot and kettle saying is so butchered from its origin and barely resembles it, and yours is not the original. It is fair game 
>> to use as he did, since there is no authority on such idioms and the interpretation is supported, whether it sounds good to 
>> everyone's ear or only to some. I have traced the origin of the pot/kettle proverb undisputedly to the ancient Greek, "Snake and 
>> the Crab" and it intended hypocrisy, whereas the reflection/coloring suggests that the accused reserves the right to be pure and 
>> without fault, a different concept. Pot calling the kettle black is a late-comer, and already a poor corruption of a 3000 year 
>> old proverb that diminishes the original, so that is why I feel the writer can appropriate it as they feel convenient and not be 
>> beholden to any higher authority on its use due to the selection of an arbitrary point in time, and Adam has referenced his with 
>> a less common modern variant. English is always evolving, and this is a living example of how it ha
> pp
>> ens.
>> 
>> Kindest wishes
>> Doug
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Blood via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> To: Paul Gessler <cetuspa at shaw.ca>; Met. Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at centurylink.net>; Meteorite List 
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Sat, Jun 18, 2016 7:56 pm
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pot Coloring The Kettle Black
>> 
>> Hi all,
>>        Teaching Anthropology, which includes linguistics, I began over
>> 30 years ago to collect the origins of phrases.
>>        The original phrase in this instance is
>> "Pot calling the kettle black."
>>        Michael Blood
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/16/16 8:11 PM, "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Pot Coloring The Kettle Black
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