Comments on: I was JUST going to SAY that! https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Sat, 08 Aug 2020 01:55:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Darwin sorry not sorry? | SorryWatch https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/#comment-188492 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:12:15 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2603#comment-188492 […] and hoping to behave differently. As a writer he was exact, and sometimes eloquent, and he could apologize appropriately when it was appropriate. This is more of a #sorrynotsorry. I think he knew McDermott […]

]]> By: October 20, 1790 (a Wednesday) | Professor Olsen @ Large https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/#comment-175415 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:37:30 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2603#comment-175415 […] evolution over a quarter-century earlier than did Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. However, Matthew failed to develop or publicize his ideas and Darwin and Wallace were unaware of Matthew’s […]

]]> By: On Apology, Reactiveness and Twitrage | SorryWatch https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/#comment-20323 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:51:26 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2603#comment-20323 […] who get all the evanescent pixels. But we strive for a good balance on the site. We want to look at historical, literary and personal apologies as well as the Celebrity Dickweasel of the Day. Right now we are […]

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/#comment-18161 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:07:42 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2603#comment-18161 In reply to David Turoff.

You did? Then I freely acknowledge that Mr. Turoff anticipated by a full year the explanation which I have offered of the movement of continents, under the name of “obviously.” I offer my apologies.

]]> By: David Turoff https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/#comment-18160 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:37:20 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2603#comment-18160 Yes, I agree, the collegiality of the entire set of exchanges is admirable, and an extinct species of social phenomenon now.

Also, even though I mentioned it only to close friends at the time and didn’t publish, plate tectonics, at least in its broad outline, was evident to me at the age of only *six*; so there !!

]]> By: Joe Flower https://sorrywatch.com/i-was-just-going-to-say-that/#comment-18159 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:49:14 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2603#comment-18159 Love this! I love how polite and thoughtful these great Victorian scientists were to each other, that Darwin would be genuinely distressed to think that Wallace might think ill of him, and Wallace the same about Darwin. We find precious little of such politesse around today.

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