Evan Carroll

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Aug 5	comment	What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural? Name one thing that is supernatural and exists?
Aug 5	comment	What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural? It was relevant. It gave an example of something supernatural -- unlike Chocolate Cake, which is just supernormal.
Aug 4	comment	What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural? @tchrist you're on fire today.
Aug 4	comment	What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural? I'm tempted to accept this answer, even though it wasn't the one I was looking for! Well done Captain. Seldom in `[single-word-choice]` do you get a better answer then the one you were expecting.
Aug 4	answered	What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural?
Aug 4	asked	What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural?
Aug 2	awarded	Talkative
Jul 26	comment	@Flexo it was stupidly dismissive, I didn't start my campaign for justice with ELU. I started it on day 1 on MSO.
Jul 25	comment	Why should I use “ought to”? That's an argument I'm willing to accept; however, I have a decent understanding of the term morning and astronomy, and so at least for most populated climates, there is no probability that the sun will not come up short of a solar catastrophe of an unforeseen magnitude.
Jul 25	comment	Why should I use “ought to”? @Carlo_R. if you use the term "ought to" you're making an implicit statement about the present condition. You'd never say the sun "ought to" come up at 8 AM: firstly, the sun can't react to instruction, secondly the sun already rises at 8 AM. Ought to implies the condition is mutable and it's not currently that way. Your replacements should and must don't carry that burden.
Jul 25	awarded	Cleanup
Jul 25	comment	Why should I use “ought to”? Neither should nor must imply anything about the current condition.
Jul 25	revised	Why should I use “ought to”? rolled back to a previous revision
Jul 25	revised	Why should I use “ought to”? added 324 characters in body
Jul 25	comment	Why should I use “ought to”? It's additional information. What's wrong with that, where is that against the rules?
Jul 25	revised	Why should I use “ought to”? deleted 6 characters in body
Jul 25	answered	Why should I use “ought to”?
Jul 23	accepted	What does it mean to “Gild the Lily”
Jul 23	comment	@balpha That's rude, offensive, and unnecessarily dismissive; please remove that comment. Wanton personal attacks and libel should not be welcome on english.stackexchange.com. To others that observe this, this is precisely what we need to address as a community. Calling people a "troll" is unbecoming of useful discourse -- we can do better than that. I'm not a troll. I've never trolled, ever.
Jul 23	comment	@Tim What you are seeking, or what the community is seeking? This is another boldface presumption. Let the people decide what they perceive as a bigger problem. Let's take it to a vote. I'll help out with the mundane matters too; my agenda -- the people's agenda -- is where I'll stand out.