Rocklin wrote:
No worries, dear sir, if you were actually one of my alter egos, I would've imbued you with the gift of genuine wit.
Your currently dominant (“Rocklin”) personality has obviously taken majority dibs on the “wit” lobes of your brain, leaving us alter egos struggling to achieve half-wit status. You should try to learn to share better amongst yourselves. Ourselves? I’m so confused.
jnk wrote:
That said, I VERY much respect those like DDave
Rocklin wrote:So do I.
And it is entirely possible that further research will validate Dave's skeptical POV.
Agreed. And it is
also entirely possible that further research will
invalidate Dave's skeptical POV. Time will tell. It’s all just speculation and hypotheses until proven or disproven. And yes, I still highly respect and value DeltaD’s contributions here. It’s nice having him around – he’s kind of like the living antithesis of the old bumper sticker from the 60’s that reads “question authority”.
Deltadave wrote:
IMHO", after dropping MAP via bilevel to reduce aerophagia, Ig1 improved Sleep Efficiency through hygiene and CBT.
Nope. My bilevel experience was very short term and didn’t help my aerophagia problem at all. I can’t explain why, but maybe it had something to do with an allergic reaction to my unicorn? And no again on both the CBT and sleep hygiene too – nothing’s changed there.
Deltadave wrote:
…As has been offered in this thread, a reduction in mean pressure would appear to have a favorable effect on aerophagia. Once ASV was started, the resultant lower EEP level would significantly lower mean airway pressure, which in turn could easily explain improvement in aerophagia and sleep quality.
O.K.- Now we’re finally getting somewhere! Straight from the Oracle of DavePhi! (Get it? Delphi, Davephi. Horrible no? Any (witless) joke that needs explanation shouldn’t be uttered in the first place – right Rocklin?) So now we have an expert in the field offering a solid scientific explanation as to why some people are finding that ASV mitigates aerophagia. AGAIN, not everyone, but SOME people benefit from this aspect of ASV therapy. AGAIN, nothing is a panacea.
Now that Deltadave has joined us formerly irrational “believers” here on the dark side, is the case now closed on that particular matter? Kindly note the sequence of events: there was first an unexplained effect that prompted looking for a cause, and then an analysis that ultimately led to a logical scientific explanation of cause & effect. Observation of the phenomena preceded explanation, just like innumerable scientific discoveries. I’m feeling particularly rapturous now! OMG Look! A 600lb gorilla!
Rocklin wrote:
If Dave didn't exist, we would have to invent him, if nothing else than for our own sanity.
I did pose the idea earlier that perhaps he is actually an Artificial Intelligence program. I even proffered a Nobel prize election for the program’s creators. Perhaps until we have
absolute scientific PROOF that Dave is indeed actually human, we should just go with that A.I. assertion? So what DOES Deltadave eat for breakfast? Oatmeal or electrons?
Rocklin wrote:
And, as a member of the tribe who lost relatives in the ovens, and thus, is just a mite bit touchy about the whole subject, I find your post to possibly—just possibly—be in somewhat questionable taste.
Jnk wrote:
Then again, I didn't choose a humorous Nazi character as my avatar then consider bad German jokes by others to be verboten.
Yes jnk – the irony is lost on my witless & addled brain too. And Rocklin - I can speak with a clear conscious. Half of my family tree looks like it got hit by that damn flaming zeppelin of yours. Maybe you
should stick with helium instead of hydrogen. And speaking of light elements, don’t forget your lithium! (And now should I try to offend the creationists by making a joke about how the monkeys simply broke some limbs off the family tree WAY back in time?)
Rocklin wrote:
Why did you ever think I was German?
It was your accent that slipped out a while back, and that gave up your secret. But the real proof is in this editorial I dug up – the one that you wrote several years ago:
Euro-English, an unsolicited editorial by Rocklin
The European Language Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would be known as “Euro-English”.
In the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of the ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replased with the ‘f’. This will make words like ‘fotograf’ 20% shorter!
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent ‘e’ in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ wiz ‘v’. During ze fifz year ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’ and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After ze fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensibl ritn styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evriun vil find it ezi tu undrstand ech ozer.
Zen Z Drem Vil Finali Kum Tru!!
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Und I mit ad dat dis nu spelung had skrewd up min automatik speler cheker und gramatik und it kriatd much trubl und difikultis!
Enuf sed. Vut iz rily a shem zo iz dat peplz lik SleepingUgly stil hav zer problums, und ve haf not helpd her vid de zolushun yet.
