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Sid

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Oct 14, 2009, 12:42:01 AM10/14/09
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Sid

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Oct 14, 2009, 8:40:13 AM10/14/09
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* GWD [2009-10-14 00:08] [alt.fan.douglas-adams]:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:42:01 +0000 (UTC), Sid wrote:
>
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter
>>
>
> Yes
> " You will bring Edamnation down on us all " ?
> That rumbling would be DA turning in his grave I think.

*cringes*

I was referring to the whale tweet, of course. I haven't read AAT,
yet.

Professor Urban Chronitis

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Oct 16, 2009, 1:25:01 AM10/16/09
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Sid <sid@invalid_nerte.invalid.invalid_net.invalid> wrote:
> * GWD [2009-10-14 00:08] [alt.fan.douglas-adams]:
> > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:42:01 +0000 (UTC), Sid wrote:
> >
> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter
> >>
> >
> > Yes
> > " You will bring Edamnation down on us all " ?
> > That rumbling would be DA turning in his grave I think.
>
> *cringes*
>
> I was referring to the whale tweet, of course. I haven't read AAT,
> yet.
>
> Sid

Aw, I missed the whale tweet. I had the probes on my twitterfeed but
wasn't having their tweets sent to my phone. That is pretty zarking
cool though.

Wolfgang Krietsch

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Oct 16, 2009, 4:03:24 AM10/16/09
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Sid wrote:

>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter
>
>Sid

OMG - *thirty* years? I can't possibly be *that* old.

Bye

woffi

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Sid

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Oct 16, 2009, 7:37:46 AM10/16/09
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* Wolfgang Krietsch [2009-10-16 03:03] [alt.fan.douglas-adams]:

> Sid wrote:
>
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/nasa-lcross-hitchhikers-guide-twitter
>>
>>Sid
>
> OMG - *thirty* years? I can't possibly be *that* old.

Well, you are certainly hip to what the kids are saying nowadays!

Welcome to afda. Tea?

Sid

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Oct 16, 2009, 7:43:49 AM10/16/09
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* Professor Urban Chronitis [2009-10-16 00:25] [alt.fan.douglas-adams]:
> Sid <sid@invalid_nerte.invalid.invalid_net.invalid> wrote:

>> I was referring to the whale tweet, of course. I haven't read AAT,
>> yet.

> Aw, I missed the whale tweet. I had the probes on my twitterfeed but


> wasn't having their tweets sent to my phone. That is pretty zarking
> cool though.

I was afraid of that. I don't mean you, personally, of course. I was
afraid that most people would miss the HHGG reference. Not 'afraid',
really, too. I am not waking up in the middle of a night in a cold
sweat mumbling "whale... notice the whale".

NASA crashing stuff into a rock, voluntary or involuntary, is not
really news by itself.

Wolfgang Krietsch

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Oct 16, 2009, 7:58:47 AM10/16/09
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Sid wrote:

>Well, you are certainly hip to what the kids are saying nowadays!

I'm not sure if that is a good thing.

>Welcome to afda. Tea?

Oh, I'm not that new here. I just have been sitting silently in the corner
for a while with my towel over my head.

But yes, thanks, I'll have a cup.

Bye

woffi

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to say and say the opposite.
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Lloyd Gilbert

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Oct 16, 2009, 1:05:56 PM10/16/09
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:58:47 +0200, Wolfgang Krietsch
<wof...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

>Sid wrote:
>
>>Well, you are certainly hip to what the kids are saying nowadays!
>I'm not sure if that is a good thing.

Take heart in the fact that Zaphod was so hip he had trouble seeing
over his pelvis.

>>Welcome to afda. Tea?
>
>Oh, I'm not that new here. I just have been sitting silently in the corner
>for a while with my towel over my head.

Welcome into the light!

>But yes, thanks, I'll have a cup.

Biscuit?

Lloyd
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"In fact, everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade'
appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli

Wolfgang Krietsch

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Oct 16, 2009, 2:46:18 PM10/16/09
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Lloyd Gilbert wrote:

>
>Biscuit?

Finally. Yes, please - but the tea is cold by now, can I have a fresh cup?
Maybe somthing that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Or a
beer. And peanuts.

Bye

woffi

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make things generally irritating.
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in Televised Talk, 1972

Lloyd Gilbert

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Oct 16, 2009, 4:49:11 PM10/16/09
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:46:18 +0200, Wolfgang Krietsch
<wof...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

>Lloyd Gilbert wrote:
>
>>Biscuit?
>
>Finally. Yes, please - but the tea is cold by now, can I have a fresh cup?
>Maybe somthing that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Or a
>beer. And peanuts.

I think we can probably manage some peanuts, and something almost, but
not quite, entirely unlike tea. Not certain we've any beer left,
however.

Sid

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Oct 16, 2009, 9:13:42 PM10/16/09
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* Lloyd Gilbert [2009-10-16 15:49] [alt.fan.douglas-adams]:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:46:18 +0200, Wolfgang Krietsch
> <wof...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
>
>>Lloyd Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>>Biscuit?
>>
>>Finally. Yes, please - but the tea is cold by now, can I have a fresh cup?
>>Maybe somthing that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Or a
>>beer. And peanuts.
>
> I think we can probably manage some peanuts, and something almost, but
> not quite, entirely unlike tea. Not certain we've any beer left,
> however.

No beer? Is it the end of the world already?

pippa.moran

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Oct 17, 2009, 3:32:25 AM10/17/09
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Sid wrote:
> * Lloyd Gilbert [2009-10-16 15:49] [alt.fan.douglas-adams]:
> > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:46:18 +0200, Wolfgang Krietsch
> > <wof...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> >
> >>Lloyd Gilbert wrote:
> >>
> >>>Biscuit?
> >>
> >>Finally. Yes, please - but the tea is cold by now, can I have a fresh cup?
> >>Maybe somthing that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Or a
> >>beer. And peanuts.
> >
> > I think we can probably manage some peanuts, and something almost, but
> > not quite, entirely unlike tea. Not certain we've any beer left,
> > however.
>
> No beer? Is it the end of the world already?
>
> Sid


No. If it were the end of the world, we'd have six pints of beer to
get through by lunchtime.

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Jan van den Broek

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Oct 19, 2009, 6:41:21 AM10/19/09
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:13:42 +0000 (UTC)
Sid <sid@invalid_nerte.invalid.invalid_net.invalid> schrieb:

[Schnipp]

>No beer? Is it the end of the world already?

Not here, Grolsch beugel and Palm.
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Rasmus Bøg Hansen

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Oct 21, 2009, 5:43:13 PM10/21/09
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Jan van den Broek skrev:

> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:13:42 +0000 (UTC)
> Sid <sid@invalid_nerte.invalid.invalid_net.invalid> schrieb:
>
> [Schnipp]
>
>> No beer? Is it the end of the world already?
>
> Not here, Grolsch beugel and Palm.

Not here either. Though ostly boring standard pilsner (that's lager to
you british people :-)

Also, I'm trying to catch up after being lost for some time. Not really
lost, just a bit away from afda.

I was astonished to see the the fit progressing! I haven't even dared
reading it yet...

Anyway, I brought some tea...

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