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(David P.)

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Dec 1, 2009, 1:18:31 AM12/1/09
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Subject: Re: please try my name!
Date: 1 May 1994
From: s...@stat.tamu.edu (Sean Barrett)

Time for my biannual criticism, desparately
hoping someone will get a clue....

Dave Polewka <al...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
>rd...@andrew.cmu.edu (Roberto De Feo) says:
>>How 'bout "Carnegie Mellon University"
>>--------------------------------------
>>- See me cringe involuntarily
>>- Innermost cruel ivy lineage
>>- Luminescent ovary lingerie
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4 words. 4 words. 3 words. The fewer words,
the longer the words are--the better the
anagram.
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>- Your nice girls let me in, Evan!
>- Love reigns, my lunatic Irene!
>- Rate my ol' uncivil engineers!
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7 words. 5 words. 5 words. Poor word length,
they are, de-facto, worse anagrams, then the above.

Use of proper nouns is lame, since there are vast
quantities of proper nouns available. Proper
nouns are only forgiveable if they're topical,
or if at least the name of someone famous and the
anagram makes some sort of sense about them.

Finally, use of slang contractions such as
"ol'", "O!", "coulda", etc., is the mark of
anagrammist who doesn't understand the idea
of quality anagramming, and doesn't realize
that if someone else has already posted some
better anagrams, that he would do well to simply
shut the fuck up.

buzzard
or at least get off of talk.bizarre
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GEE, WHAT HAPPENED TO SEAN BARRETT?
LOOKS LIKE HE GOT THE FSCK OFFA TEEDOTBEE!
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Druidic Ranger

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Dec 11, 2009, 5:49:45 AM12/11/09
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There were a lot of people in here who gave me lip back then.
Sometimes I take their absences as passive acknowledgements that I am
the better man.

--
Julian

Scott Dorsey

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Dec 16, 2009, 3:44:06 PM12/16/09
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(David P.) <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>that if someone else has already posted some
>better anagrams, that he would do well to simply
>shut the fuck up.
>
>buzzard
>or at least get off of talk.bizarre
>===============
>
>GEE, WHAT HAPPENED TO SEAN BARRETT?
>LOOKS LIKE HE GOT THE FSCK OFFA TEEDOTBEE!

So wait, you feel some sort of pride at having driven one of the better
t.b. posters off? Sheesh.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

rone

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Dec 18, 2009, 2:56:22 AM12/18/09
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In article <184b9ee5-74d4-42a3...@k4g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,

(David P.) <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>GEE, WHAT HAPPENED TO SEAN BARRETT?
>LOOKS LIKE HE GOT THE FSCK OFFA TEEDOTBEE!

Polluka, your schtick went from being an anagram bot to a serial
excessive crossposter. You're about as relevant and current as a
furuncle on a corpse.

rone
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"The priest jabbered incomprehensibly on the distinctive nature of Christian
actions, as opposed to Jewish and Muslim actions, in the world. Not one word
about Mary. No connection to the readings. I am getting tired of this man,
and I think his liturgy is suspect." -- Richard Allan Baruz

(David P.)

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Dec 18, 2009, 7:04:37 PM12/18/09
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"rone" <^*...@ennui.org> wrote:
>
> (David P.) <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >GEE, WHAT HAPPENED TO SEAN BARRETT?
> >LOOKS LIKE HE GOT THE FSCK OFFA TEEDOTBEE!
>
> Polluka, your schtick went from being an anagram bot to a serial
> excessive crossposter.  You're about as relevant and current as a
> furuncle on a corpse.

http://tinyurl.com/rone-bone
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(David P.)

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Dec 22, 2009, 12:14:17 AM12/22/09
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klu...@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> (David P.) <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >that if someone else has already posted some
> >better anagrams, that he would do well to simply
> >shut the fuck up.
>
> >buzzard
> >or at least get off of talk.bizarre
> >===============
>
> >GEE, WHAT HAPPENED TO SEAN BARRETT?
> >LOOKS LIKE HE GOT THE FSCK OFFA TEEDOTBEE!
>
> So wait, you feel some sort of pride at having driven
> one of the better t.b. posters off?  Sheesh.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=sgm&id=588380607
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