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Phil Culmer

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Aug 19, 2009, 8:05:50 AM8/19/09
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I must be going deaf - either that, or the place is a lot quieter than it used
to be.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

Manda.
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TimC

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Aug 19, 2009, 10:02:44 AM8/19/09
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On 2009-08-19, Phil Culmer (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

> I must be going deaf - either that, or the place is a lot quieter than it used
> to be.
>
> Maybe I'm just getting old.
>
> Manda.

Mr Huggenkiss!

It's just that USENET died (but the projector broke and they couldn't
fix it by 11), that is all.

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TimC
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} It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Which, when used, embiggens us all.
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Sid

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Aug 19, 2009, 11:26:50 AM8/19/09
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* TimC <tcon...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> [2009-08-19 10:02] [rec.humor.oracle.d]:

> Mr Huggenkiss!
>
> It's just that USENET died (but the projector broke and they couldn't
> fix it by 11), that is all.

Lies, all lies. In other news, I am moving to Chicago next month. Is
any rhodent in that general area?

Sid
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Phil Culmer

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Aug 19, 2009, 3:03:15 PM8/19/09
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To: TimC
Re: Re: Old farts.
By: TimC to rec.humor.oracle.d on Thu Aug 20 2009 01:02:44

> From Newsgroup: rec.humor.oracle.d


>
> On 2009-08-19, Phil Culmer (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> > I must be going deaf - either that, or the place is a lot quieter than it

> > to be.
> >
> > Maybe I'm just getting old.
> >
> > Manda.
>
> Mr Huggenkiss!
>
> It's just that USENET died (but the projector broke and they couldn't
> fix it by 11), that is all.
>
> --
> TimC

that explains it.
I thought I'd try recreating the old BBS days, and then got nothing in my
feed for a week.

Manda.

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S. Checker

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Aug 20, 2009, 9:08:16 AM8/20/09
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GWD <g...@nsw.chariot.net.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:05:50 +0000, Phil Culmer wrote:
>
>>I must be going deaf - either that, or the place is a lot quieter than it used
>>to be.
>>
>>Maybe I'm just getting old.
>
> Reports on the death of Usenet are becoming less exaggerated, and yes,
> please do get something done about those ears. They stick out a lot,
> doncha know :)

I like the ears. They remind me of a chocolate bunny. A mottled, hairy
chocolate bunny.

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