On 8/30/2012 4:07 PM, p-0.0-h the cat wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:16:51 -0500, telsar <
no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> 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]