"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...

"NOYB" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
"NOYB" wrote in message
ink.net...


What contributions would you consider valid ones?

The light bulb, penicillin, the first computer, the internal
combustion
engine and the automobile, space travel, airplanes, pre-emptive
strikes,
and
supply side economics. ;-)



Hmm. No literature. Not surprising, coming from the court jester.

lit·er·a·ture (ltr--chr, -chr)
n.
1.. The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
2.. Imaginative or creative writing
I read a lot "imaginary or creative writing" everytime I read yours
or
Harry's posts here on rec.boats...or whenever I visit the NY Times
or
Washington Post website.

You also spew gibberish when you're trapped.

Trapped? By you? Puh-leeze. I asked you to name *one* Arab living in
an
Arab country who has made a significant positive contribution to society
in
the last 100 years, and the best you came up with is a guy who writes
literature that 99.9999999% of the World has never read. Some impact!



Source of numbers, please. And, provide an explanation for the author's
presence in American literary critiques on a pretty regular basis.


OK, maybe there's a couple of extra "9's" in there.

99.9995% of the World's population...would put the number of Naguib Mahfouz
readers at 1 million. That's beyond generous.