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On or about 2/22/2005 2:39:44 PM, Lemming
<thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> said:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:13:52 GMT, "Bret Ripley" <ripley@olywa.net>
> wrote:
>
>>"Rodent" <rodent@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news
7sk11h3m5787tc7o47kj6brso5h937a3g@4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:19:32 GMT, "Bret Ripley" <ripley@olywa.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:05:37 GMT, "Bill Huffman" <bhuffma1@san.rr.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> >"Isla Nublar" <not@this.net> wrote in message
>>> >> >news:cbmi11920bet478rntfn2l433mekrj6lsh@4ax.com...
>>> >> >> You're not a Lemming. You're a pernicious little troll.
>>>
>>> I've been called worse.
>>
>>*And* by people in a position to know better.
>
> Hell, *I* have called me worse than that.
Please note that your zeal for personal excellence has already been noted.
>>> >> >>And you've hit
>>> >> >> my killfile after only two posts, which has to be a record for me.
>>> >> >> Ten years in usenet,
>>>
>>> Ten years, by Kibo. That is a very long time to go without a clue.
>>
>>Your Kibology will get you nowhere, mefears.
>
> It's got me this far.
Please don't make me repeat myself.
>>> >"In" usenet? Sort of like in "Tron"?
>>> >
>>> >> >> and no one before you has been able to convince
>>> >> >> me so quickly of his complete uselessness. Congratulations, I guess.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >Lemming does have a strong personal zeal for excellence.
>>> >
>>> >I've noticed his personal zeal is particularly strong after he's had a go
>>at
>>> >the rollmop herring.
>>> >
>>> >> Back in September 2004 s/he posted a couple of messages that actually
>>> >> had CONTENT about space-sims.
>>>
>>> I sincerely doubt that. I haven't posted anything about space-sims on
>>> here since about September 1999. Not since I realised that space-sims
>>> were off topic on this froup.
>>>
>>> >De gustibus non est disputandum: even Homer nods.
>>>
>>> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
>>
>>Why should the toga wearers miss out?
>
> Good point. They can join the queue.
In lieu of the queue they can join the line. (I'm on thin ice here, I
know.)
>>> >> For quite some time before that, and
>>> >> since from what I can see, Lemming's posts are just sniping about
>>> >> netiquette with frequent forays into uncalled for nastiness.
>>>
>>> Uh, oh ... I've been googled.
>>
>>I'll bet s/he skipped the ones on a.h.b-o-u.
>
> I hate it when that happens.
>
>>> >> The right way to handle that is to start a .moderated group and become
>>> >> the totalitarian dick you want to be.
>>>
>>> When your mommy said "you should say 'please' and 'thank-you'" did you
>>> call her a totalitarian bitch-cow?
>>
>>Maybe Mrs. Nublar deserved it. Any mother who names her child "Isla" isn't
>>likely to be "the right sort of people," if you pay any attention to that
>>sort of thing.
>>
>>> When your teachers at school
>>> suggested you write in ink rather than crayon, did you tell them they
>>> will be first against the wall when the revolution comes?
>>
>>That's a good one, Rod. For all we know, Isla may still be posting to
>>usenet in crayon.
>
> Posting *in* usenet, Mr. Bret. *In* usenet.
*In* usenet. *In* crayon. *In*conceivable.
>>> Do you
>>> killfile everyone who points out your dismal lack of netiquette? If
>>> so, your bit-bucket must be fuller than DKS's.
>>>
>>> >> Also, I would appreciate a pointer to the FAQ.
>>>
>>> I'm still writing it. More accurately, I'm still waiting for someone
>>> to ask some questions which aren't about Derek Smart.
>>>
>>> >Here is the archive you requested:
>>> >
>>> >http://www.jonathonrobinson.com/3.0/web/webtsos.html
>>>
>>> Yer a funny guy, Bret. Or so Br d tells me.
>>
>>He didn't mean funny "ha ha".
>
> Do you see anybody laughing?
I can't see a bloody thing: my optical mouse is on the blink.
>>> Where is Br d anyway?
>>
>>Dunno. I was in the process of inviting myself over to his house this
>>summer when he suddenly disappeared.
>
> I'm starting to see a connection.
Reply hazy, try again.
>>I'm sure he'll turn up again any time
>>now.
>
> Seriously though, I do know what happened. He got plastered one night
> and trashed his computer by deleting most of the system files out of
> his Windoze directory. That would have been a good thing, but he
> forgot to install Linux first.
>
> Yes, that really *is* what happened. Would I lie to you?
Your question reminds me of a story I'm about to make up: one day, a wee
lad was walking down a garden path when he noticed a butterfly resting on
an acorn squash. The wee lad says to himself, "cor blimey," he says, "that
butterfly is resting on that acorn squash and no mistake," he said. Then
the wee lad took his cricket bat (which he was carrying all along but I
forgot to mention earlier) and smashed the butterfly, the acorn squash, and
the family of small black beetles that happened to be using the acorn
squash as a summer home.
Later that very same day, the wee lad's grandfather was walking in the
garden, and discovered the smashed, broken bodies of several small black
beetles scattered about near the smashed acorn squash. Being perhaps a bit
of a coleopterist and altogether insensible to the smashed butterfly, the
grandfather gathered up the remains of the smashed black beetles and took
them to his secret underground laboratory for further study. After
determining that the smashed black beetles were of a type thought to be
extinct, he grew very angry and went looking for little Timmy (which was
the name of the wee lad with the cricket bat I forgot to mention). The
grandfather found little Timmy and accused him of smashing the small black
thought to be extinct beetles.
Little Timmy, being perhaps a bit of a lepidopterist and altogether
insensible to the smashed beetles, truthfully denied smashing those
particular insects, but quickly copped to smashing the butterfly and the
acorn squash (which no one seemed to care much about). Then little Timmy
smashed his grandfather's skull with the cricket bat I forgot to mention he
was still carrying.
So, to answer your question:
> Yes, that really *is* what happened. Would I lie to you?
The veracity of words are often rendered immaterial by what is done with
the cricket bat.
But enough about Iraq.
{whistles}
Bret
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