Re: Lawrence: woooorrhh...or WHHOOOWRRHHH!!!! (REPOST)

Guy Barry

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Oct 24, 2012, 4:40:10 AM10/24/12

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"fabzorba" wrote in message
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> So it is only left for me to thank those who have helped me become who
> I am here, that estimable panel of virtues, Laura, Athel, Tony Poole,
> Steve Hayes and the rest, whose implacable opposition to everything I
> have ever said has done more to rally this man's spirits,

Who's Tony Poole? I see you've mentioned him before:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/5468bfb021982a09

I've only been on the group three years so perhaps he was before my time.
Or maybe he posts under an alias.

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Guy Barry

fabzorba

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Oct 24, 2012, 8:07:07 PM10/24/12

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Whoops my error. I meant Tony Cooper. How the hell did I get Poole?
Perhaps, coopers makes barrels. Barrels can hold water. Water makes
pools.

myles [we'll just pretend that didn't happen, won't we?] paulsen

tony cooper

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Oct 24, 2012, 8:53:30 PM10/24/12

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Thank you for clarifying this. Not being on your enemies list made me
think I was being a slacker.

I strongly deny, though, implacably opposing everything you have said.
I seldom read more than the first line or so of your posts before
losing interest. I may be in total agreement with things said in the
second through ninth paragraphs.

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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

R H Draney

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Oct 24, 2012, 9:12:58 PM10/24/12

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fabzorba filted:

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>Whoops my error. I meant Tony Cooper. How the hell did I get Poole?
>Perhaps, coopers makes barrels. Barrels can hold water. Water makes
>pools.

Nice contrivance...reminds me of the logic I use to explain why I spend so much
time at MENSA events talking to Mike Waters...Waters, Draney...allasamee
samee....r

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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.

fabzorba

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Oct 24, 2012, 9:41:22 PM10/24/12

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And of course, water goes down drains...They I suppose that this
particular association is not the most pleasing.

fabzorba

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Oct 24, 2012, 10:26:52 PM10/24/12

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losing interest." Hold it right there. That's about as classic an
indication of reading difficulties, prob associated with ADD, as I
have seen for some time. I won't say ADHD, coz you are about as
hyperactive as a garden slug.

R H Draney

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Oct 25, 2012, 5:53:31 AM10/25/12

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fabzorba filted:

>
>On Oct 25, 12:13=A0pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> fabzorba filted:
>>
>>
>>
>> >Whoops my error. I meant Tony Cooper. How the hell did I get Poole?
>> >Perhaps, coopers makes barrels. Barrels can hold water. Water makes
>> >pools.
>>

>> Nice contrivance...reminds me of the logic I use to explain why I spend s=

>o much
>> time at MENSA events talking to Mike Waters...Waters, Draney...allasamee
>> samee....r
>>
>And of course, water goes down drains...They I suppose that this
>particular association is not the most pleasing.

Dude, my father was a plumber...and Mike Waters spent several years of his life
sailing a small craft all around the world...our associations with things
aquatic do not begin and end with one another's names....r

Harrison Hill

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Oct 25, 2012, 7:25:17 AM10/25/12

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> indication of reading difficulties, prob associated with ADD...

If I see heaps of text droning away into the distance, I think "I
haven't got time for all that!", in the same way that I haven't got
time to read Shakespeare or The Times. It doesn't reflect on
Shakespeare or The Times, and it doesn't reflect on you or on me.

R H Draney

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Oct 25, 2012, 3:57:16 PM10/25/12

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Harrison Hill filted:

>
>On Oct 25, 3:26=A0am, fabzorba <myles.abzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "I seldom read more than the first line or so of your posts before
>> losing interest." Hold it right there. That's about as classic an
>> indication of reading difficulties, prob associated with ADD...
>
>If I see heaps of text droning away into the distance, I think "I
>haven't got time for all that!", in the same way that I haven't got
>time to read Shakespeare or The Times. It doesn't reflect on
>Shakespeare or The Times, and it doesn't reflect on you or on me.

I'm trying to decide whether I should be offended at bozo's response to my
recent link to the history of "filted"...at a certain point " i politely ignored
it cuz it failed to provide any origin or providence for the term" shades off
into "I can't read that many words at one time"....r

Guy Barry

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Oct 26, 2012, 5:00:45 AM10/26/12

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"R H Draney" wrote in message news:k6c5i...@drn.newsguy.com...

> Harrison Hill filted:

> >If I see heaps of text droning away into the distance, I think "I
> >haven't got time for all that!", in the same way that I haven't got
> >time to read Shakespeare or The Times. It doesn't reflect on
> >Shakespeare or The Times, and it doesn't reflect on you or on me.

I'm just wondering why you haven't got time to read The Times. It's a
pretty lightweight paper these days compared with what it was in the days
before Murdoch took it over. I wouldn't say it's any more challenging than
the Daily Mail.

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Guy Barry

fabzorba

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Oct 26, 2012, 7:54:13 PM10/26/12

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No insult intended. I'm just writing a piece on nominal detererminism,
and you might end up as an example. Also, it features non-nominal
deterministic examples, for example: Karen Carpenter was not into
woodwork, and if she had been, who knows.....

fabzorba

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Oct 26, 2012, 7:59:01 PM10/26/12

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On 25 Oct, 22:25, Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Thank you for clarifying this. Not being on your enemies list made me
> > > think I was being a slacker.
>
> > > I strongly deny, though, implacably opposing everything you have said.
> > > I seldom read more than the first line or so of your posts before
> > > losing interest. I may be in total agreement with things said in the
> > > second through ninth paragraphs.
>

> > "I seldom read more than the first line or so of your posts before
> > losing interest." Hold it right there. That's about as classic an
> > indication of reading difficulties, prob associated with ADD...
>
> If I see heaps of text droning away into the distance, I think "I
> haven't got time for all that!", in the same way that I haven't got
> time to read Shakespeare or The Times. It doesn't reflect on

> Shakespeare or The Times, and it doesn't reflect on you or on me.->

Are you comparing my stuff to "Shakespeare or the Times"? I can't see
how you are not in this context. So thanks, Harrison. Although, if you
see "Shakespeare or the Times as just "text droning away into the
distance", then I suppose that it DOES reflect on you in some way. Not
in rec. super.hotrods.wooh, but HERE in this froup, well it just
might, a little...

Guy Barry

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Oct 27, 2012, 3:09:01 AM10/27/12

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"fabzorba" wrote in message
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> On 25 Oct, 22:25, Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > If I see heaps of text droning away into the distance, I think "I
> > haven't got time for all that!", in the same way that I haven't got
> > time to read Shakespeare or The Times. It doesn't reflect on
> > Shakespeare or The Times, and it doesn't reflect on you or on me.->

> Are you comparing my stuff to "Shakespeare or the Times"? I can't see
> how you are not in this context. So thanks, Harrison.

Being compared to the Times is nothing to be proud of.

--
Guy Barry