OT: Aggressive Cognitive Remodeling

Very nice quote, though there's one thing I don't understand:

If he will not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him.

Hmm, "stout." That means, like, "able to explain stuff really well," right?

BCE
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Re: OT: Aggressive Cognitive Remodeling by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 08, 2002 at 23:37 UTC
Hmm, "stout." That means, like, "able to explain stuff really well," right? In this context, I think it means "able to explain stuff very convincingly" ;)	[reply]
Re: OT: Aggressive Cognitive Remodeling by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 09, 2002 at 13:25 UTC
Personally I think he meant two monks who had had enough to drink that they had the courage to push the offender out. ;-) `stout \Stout\, n. A strong malt liquor; strong porter. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, I +nc.` [download] Yves / DeMerphq --- Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: OT: Aggressive Cognitive Remodeling by NaSe77 (Monk) on Aug 09, 2002 at 07:50 UTC
I think it's a spelling mistake and should rather read as "stdout" instead of "stout", and STDOUT monks are shure to explain a lot ;) ---- NaSe :x	[reply]