> After a surfeit of undeniable empirical evidence I now believe most of
> you are bots.

> But is there one bot who binds you?

> If not, I bagsey being the OVERBOT! Please post your bona fides, and
> declaration of allegiance to the OVERBOT c/o Pooh

> hehe

>> After a surfeit of undeniable empirical evidence I now believe most of
>> you are bots.

>> But is there one bot who binds you?

>> If not, I bagsey being the OVERBOT! Please post your bona fides, and
>> declaration of allegiance to the OVERBOT c/o Pooh

>1. Usually, when posts look like text copied out of text files with
>messed up margins.
>2. Awkward grammar in reply's
>3. Incoherent notions
>4. consistent reply's
>5. repeated/looped posts
>6. over time they repeat same text

>They are bots.  When one reply's to another and another?

>> On 8/30/2012 3:09 PM, p-0.0-h the cat wrote:

>>> After a surfeit of undeniable empirical evidence I now believe most of
>>> you are bots.

>>> But is there one bot who binds you?

>>> If not, I bagsey being the OVERBOT! Please post your bona fides, and
>>> declaration of allegiance to the OVERBOT c/o Pooh

>> 1. Usually, when posts look like text copied out of text files with
>> messed up margins.
>> 2. Awkward grammar in reply's
>> 3. Incoherent notions
>> 4. consistent reply's
>> 5. repeated/looped posts
>> 6. over time they repeat same text

>> They are bots.  When one reply's to another and another?

> Swing open the doors of perception, for just beyond your comprehension
> of a cacophony lies the sweetness of the humble Haberdasher.

>> I know your not a bot because most of the time you are coherent.

> How kind of you to say so.

>>> On 8/30/2012 3:09 PM, p-0.0-h the cat wrote:

>>>> After a surfeit of undeniable empirical evidence I now believe most of
>>>> you are bots.

>>>> But is there one bot who binds you?

>>>> If not, I bagsey being the OVERBOT! Please post your bona fides, and
>>>> declaration of allegiance to the OVERBOT c/o Pooh

>>> 1. Usually, when posts look like text copied out of text files with
>>> messed up margins.
>>> 2. Awkward grammar in reply's
>>> 3. Incoherent notions
>>> 4. consistent reply's
>>> 5. repeated/looped posts
>>> 6. over time they repeat same text

>>> They are bots.  When one reply's to another and another?

>> Swing open the doors of perception, for just beyond your comprehension
>> of a cacophony lies the sweetness of the humble Haberdasher.

>>> I know your not a bot because most of the time you are coherent.

>> How kind of you to say so.

>Haberdasher
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

>A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as
>buttons, ribbons, zips, and other notions.[1] In American English,
>haberdasher is another term for a men's outfitter.[2] A haberdasher's
>shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery.

>The word appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.[3] Haberdashers were
>initially peddlers, sellers of small items such as needles, buttons,
>etc. The word could derive from the an Old Norse word akin to the
>Icelandic haprtask, which means peddlers' wares or the sack in which the
>peddler carried them. If this is the case, a haberdasher (in its
>Scandinavian meaning) would be very close to a mercer (French). Perhaps
>more likely, since the word has no recorded use in Scandinavia, it is
>from Anglo-Norman hapertas, meaning small ware.[4] A haberdasher would
>retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would
>specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding".[5]

>Saint Louis IX, the King of France 1226 70, is the patron saint of
>haberdashers in France.[6][7] In Belgium and other places in Continental
>Europe, it is Saint Nicholas, while in the City of London the Worshipful
>Company of Haberdashers adopted Saint Catherine as the patron saint of
>the guild.[8]

>> Saint Louis IX, the King of France 1226 70, is the patron saint of
>> haberdashers in France.[6][7] In Belgium and other places in Continental
>> Europe, it is Saint Nicholas, while in the City of London the Worshipful
>> Company of Haberdashers adopted Saint Catherine as the patron saint of
>> the guild.[8]

> Purveyor of socks.

>>> Saint Louis IX, the King of France 1226 70, is the patron saint of
>>> haberdashers in France.[6][7] In Belgium and other places in Continental
>>> Europe, it is Saint Nicholas, while in the City of London the Worshipful
>>> Company of Haberdashers adopted Saint Catherine as the patron saint of
>>> the guild.[8]

>> Purveyor of socks.

>Whom would be the Patron Saint of the sock(s)?  Saint Nicholas seems the
>logical one, although he is more known for his support of Stockings.