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David Iain Greig

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Oct 21, 2012, 5:14:11 PM10/21/12
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Fnord bar.

--qux.

David Iain Greig

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Oct 21, 2012, 5:18:43 PM10/21/12
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David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
> Fnord bar.
>
> --qux.
>

foo.

alextangent

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Oct 21, 2012, 5:19:39 PM10/21/12
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SNAFU?

*Hemidactylus*

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Oct 21, 2012, 6:46:00 PM10/21/12
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On 10/21/2012 05:14 PM, David Iain Greig wrote:
> Fnord bar.
>
> --qux.

Who buys the first round?

Slow Vehicle

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Oct 21, 2012, 9:05:41 PM10/21/12
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{{{[{{zombo}}}]}}}

Richard Norman

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Oct 21, 2012, 9:19:07 PM10/21/12
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Is DIG testing the fnord screening filter to reimplement it?

*Hemidactylus*

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Oct 21, 2012, 9:26:27 PM10/21/12
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Was it unimplemented?

Paul J Gans

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Oct 21, 2012, 9:30:49 PM10/21/12
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alextangent <bl...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
No. Higher magic. We underlings have no idea as to its
meaning or anything. We just quail in anticipation.

--
--- Paul J. Gans

Glenn

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Oct 21, 2012, 9:30:12 PM10/21/12
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"*Hemidactylus*" <ecph...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MJ6dnXEq3odePRnN...@giganews.com...
Maybe it is being lamented.


Stephen

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Oct 21, 2012, 10:02:28 PM10/21/12
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David Iain Greig wrote:

> Fnord bar.
>
> --qux.

With nuts and nougat and caramel.

--

*Hemidactylus*

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Oct 21, 2012, 10:20:11 PM10/21/12
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Or fermented. I still await first round beer bongs.

Glenn

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Oct 21, 2012, 11:05:46 PM10/21/12
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"*Hemidactylus*" <ecph...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:JMKdnV2JDsHGMBnN...@giganews.com...
Sounds like a personal problem.


William Morse

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Oct 21, 2012, 11:04:41 PM10/21/12
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I will be more than happy to buy the first two rounds (it will be root
beer for Chris Thompson if I am remembering correctly) but that is for
anyone who wants to travel to Syracuse.

Slow Vehicle

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Oct 21, 2012, 11:59:45 PM10/21/12
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I'll stand a round for anyone who makes it out to the NM highlands--
give me six months, and I'll stand a round of homebrew..

Burkhard

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Oct 22, 2012, 12:19:40 AM10/22/12
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On 21 Oct, 22:03, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
> Fnord bar.
>

Wunner bar!

> --qux.

J. J. Lodder

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Oct 22, 2012, 3:33:50 AM10/22/12
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David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:

> Fnord bar.

Multiply by 2pi to get it right again,

Jan

Kleuskes & Moos

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Oct 22, 2012, 6:17:41 AM10/22/12
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Pi is wrong. Tau is better.

*Hemidactylus*

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Oct 22, 2012, 6:36:52 AM10/22/12
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On 10/21/2012 11:05 PM, Glenn wrote:
> "*Hemidactylus*" <ecph...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:JMKdnV2JDsHGMBnN...@giganews.com...
>> On 10/21/2012 09:30 PM, Glenn wrote:
>>> "*Hemidactylus*" <ecph...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:MJ6dnXEq3odePRnN...@giganews.com...
>>>> On 10/21/2012 09:19 PM, Richard Norman wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:05:41 -0700 (PDT), Slow Vehicle
>>>>> <oneslow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 21, 3:08 pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fnord bar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --qux.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> foo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> {{{[{{zombo}}}]}}}
>>>>>
>>>>> Is DIG testing the fnord screening filter to reimplement it?
>>>>
>>>> Was it unimplemented?
>>>>
>>> Maybe it is being lamented.
>>
>> Or fermented. I still await first round beer bongs.
>>
> Sounds like a personal problem.

Or a personnel problem if the bar lacks staff.

Mike Painter

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Oct 22, 2012, 1:43:07 PM10/22/12
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:14:11 +0000 (UTC), David Iain Greig
<dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:

>Fnord bar.
>
>--qux.

Of course there is a bar on the submarine.

"We all live on a YELLOW submarine" was so close to the truth.
--
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." ~ Robert Pirsig

Bob Casanova

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Oct 22, 2012, 2:02:33 PM10/22/12
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:30:49 +0000 (UTC), the following
appeared in talk.origins, posted by Paul J Gans
<gan...@panix.com>:
....but it's pheasant enough, unless we need to duck.
--

Bob C.

"Evidence confirming an observation is
evidence that the observation is wrong."

- McNameless

Bob Casanova

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Oct 22, 2012, 2:02:54 PM10/22/12
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:02:28 +0000 (UTC), the following
appeared in talk.origins, posted by "Stephen"
<ssa...@austin.rr.com>:
Oh, my!

pnyikos

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Oct 22, 2012, 4:19:47 PM10/22/12
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On Oct 21, 5:03�pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
> Fnord bar.
>
> --qux.

Whuffo?

He seemed to be far less obnoxious and incorrigible than J. J. O'Shea,
for instance.

Peter Nyikos

alextangent

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Oct 22, 2012, 4:24:51 PM10/22/12
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On Oct 22, 7:03�pm, Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:30:49 +0000 (UTC), the following
> appeared in talk.origins, posted by Paul J Gans
> <gan...@panix.com>:
>
> >alextangent <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
> >>On Oct 21, 10:08?pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
> >>> David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>
> >>> > Fnord bar.
>
> >>> > --qux.
>
> >>> foo.
>
> >>SNAFU?
>
> >No. �Higher magic. �We underlings have no idea as to its
> >meaning or anything. �We just quail in anticipation.
>
> ....but it's pheasant enough, unless we need to duck.
> --
>
> Bob C.
>
> "Evidence confirming an observation is
> evidence that the observation is wrong."
>
> - McNameless

I'd grouse after a ducking.

pnyikos

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Oct 30, 2012, 3:15:28 PM10/30/12
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On Oct 21, 5:03 pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
> Fnord bar.
>
> --qux.

OK, DIG, what's this all about? I thought it meant Robert Carnegie :
Fnord was barred from posting to t.o., and yet I've caught him posting
merrily away on a number of threads since then.

Peter Nyikos

David Iain Greig

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Oct 31, 2012, 7:29:12 AM10/31/12
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pnyikos <nyi...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
In this particular instance I needed to test a flag setting in procmail
and so I needed to generate a couple of posts to the group.

The word 'fnord' is a meme, or in-joke, among 'hackers' sensu stricto,
likewise, the 'words' foo, bar, baz, and qux(x..). They are
frequently used as nonsense particles where one cannot be bothered
typing 'this is a test post' or the like, and are in general recognized
as such by Old Farts Of A Certain Ilk.

There was a period where I tried to implement a means to block spam
from gmail/google groups, where any poster from there would be 'whitelisted'
if they included the word 'fnord' in their posts; those who did so were
added to a list that were allowed to post from those sites, and those
who did not were dropped. Implementation issues arose, and it was
stopped. The idea was spammers would never know to use 'fnord' and so
it was a simple mechanism to block post-and-run spam.

--D.

>
> Peter Nyikos
>

Mike Painter

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Oct 31, 2012, 10:42:32 PM10/31/12
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:29:12 +0000 (UTC), David Iain Greig
<dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:

>
>The word 'fnord' is a meme, or in-joke, among 'hackers'

Only an enlightened few.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord


--
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." ~ Robert Pirsig

J.J. O'Shea

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Oct 31, 2012, 11:49:20 PM10/31/12
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:19:47 -0400, pnyikos wrote
(in article
<cda3f536-729d-49d0...@b15g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>):
And there he is again. Why, who was it who was complaining about people
'poisoning' threads? Hmm. Maybe if I think a little it'll come to me...

--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.


Glenn

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Oct 31, 2012, 11:57:26 PM10/31/12
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"J.J. O'Shea" <try.n...@but.see.sig> wrote in message news:k6srg...@news1.newsguy.com...
So he started it and you aren't complaining?

J.J. O'Shea

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Nov 1, 2012, 12:33:30 AM11/1/12
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:57:26 -0400, Glenn wrote
(in article <glennsheldon-k6ss7o$sfv$1...@dont-email.me>):
Just commenting; if you think differently, please point out where I
complained. I _know_ that Peter is Peter and will never, ever, change.

And, oh, I also know that you won't, either.

Glenn

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Nov 1, 2012, 12:53:53 AM11/1/12
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"J.J. O'Shea" <try.n...@but.see.sig> wrote in message news:k6su2...@news1.newsguy.com...
There you are.

J.J. O'Shea

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Nov 1, 2012, 7:54:42 AM11/1/12
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:53:53 -0400, Glenn wrote
(in article <glennsheldon-k6svhk$9vs$1...@dont-email.me>):

>
> "J.J. O'Shea" <try.n...@but.see.sig> wrote in message
> news:k6su2...@news1.newsguy.com...
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:57:26 -0400, Glenn wrote
>> (in article <glennsheldon-k6ss7o$sfv$1...@dont-email.me>):
>>
>>>
>>> "J.J. O'Shea" <try.n...@but.see.sig> wrote in message
>>> news:k6srg...@news1.newsguy.com...
>>>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:19:47 -0400, pnyikos wrote
>>>> (in article
>>>> <cda3f536-729d-49d0...@b15g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>):
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 21, 5:03 pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Fnord bar.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --qux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whuffo?
>>>>>
>>>>> He seemed to be far less obnoxious and incorrigible than J. J. O'Shea,
>>>>> for instance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Nyikos
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And there he is again. Why, who was it who was complaining about people
>>>> 'poisoning' threads? Hmm. Maybe if I think a little it'll come to me...
>>>>
>>> So he started it and you aren't complaining?
>>>
>>
>> Just commenting; if you think differently, please point out where I
>> complained. I _know_ that Peter is Peter and will never, ever, change.
>>
>> And, oh, I also know that you won't, either.
>>
> There you are.
>

I do notice that you failed to point out any 'complaints'.

Mitchell Coffey

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Nov 1, 2012, 12:38:06 PM11/1/12
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On 10/31/2012 10:42 PM, Mike Painter wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:29:12 +0000 (UTC), David Iain Greig
> <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> The word 'fnord' is a meme, or in-joke, among 'hackers'
>
> Only an enlightened few.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

For a certain definition of "enlightenment."

Mitchell Coffey


Mitchell Coffey

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Nov 1, 2012, 12:43:12 PM11/1/12
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Jeez, Peter, if a tree falls in the woods do you assume it has something
to do with you?

Mitchell Coffey


J.J. O'Shea

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Nov 1, 2012, 12:55:07 PM11/1/12
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:43:12 -0400, Mitchell Coffey wrote
(in article <k6u8qq$nve$8...@dont-email.me>):
Well, of course. It must have something to do with Peter. He is, after all,
The Single Most Important Person In The Universe.

*Hemidactylus*

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Nov 1, 2012, 10:33:42 PM11/1/12
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We should just acknowledge that Carnegie is our kingpin now and get it
over with or there will be repercussions.

pnyikos

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Nov 2, 2012, 4:32:06 PM11/2/12
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Jeez, Coffey, would you say the same thing if I had said simply, "and
yet he has been posting merrily away..."?

Why does my adding the fact that I witnessed it with my own eyes (as
opposed to e.g., relying on hearsay, like a lot of people do where
Behe is concerned) elicit this strange reply from you?

Did you REALLY think that I assumed that "Fnord bar" had something to
do with me???

Peter Nyikos

pnyikos

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Nov 2, 2012, 4:36:42 PM11/2/12
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This comment of yours seems almost as off the wall as Mitchell's [to
which I replied a few minutes ago]. What reasoning, if any, is behind
it?

Peter Nyikos

pnyikos

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Nov 2, 2012, 4:44:44 PM11/2/12
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On Nov 1, 12:58�pm, "J.J. O'Shea" <try.not...@but.see.sig> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:43:12 -0400, Mitchell Coffey wrote
> (in article <k6u8qq$nv...@dont-email.me>):
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 10/30/2012 3:15 PM, pnyikos wrote:
> >> On Oct 21, 5:03 pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
> >>> Fnord bar.
>
> >>> --qux.
>
> >> OK, DIG, what's this all about? �I thought it meant Robert Carnegie :
> >> Fnord was barred from posting to t.o., and yet I've caught him posting
> >> merrily away on a number of threads since then.
>
> >> Peter Nyikos
>
> > Jeez, Peter, if a tree falls in the woods do you assume it has something
> > to do with you?
>
> > Mitchell Coffey
>
> Well, of course. It must have something to do with Peter. He is, after all,
> The Single Most Important Person In The Universe.

Unlike with Mitchell and Hemidactylus, I'm not going to ask what is
behind this "Well, of course..." comment.

The answer is obvious. It is the ventriloquist-analogue who actually
types the things that appear under the byline of the dummy-analogue,
"J.J. O'Shea" <try.n...@but.see.sig>."

Peter Nyikos

*Hemidactylus*

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Nov 2, 2012, 7:45:46 PM11/2/12
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Haven't you ever seen the Bourne movies? DIG was speaking in code to
activate an asset.

Mitchell Coffey

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Nov 3, 2012, 3:32:31 AM11/3/12
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No, having now read more than a few words of what you wrote I realize
you were making a rather cleaver joke. I wrote what I did because I
didn't read what you'd written at all closely. You do have a tendency to
introduce your own issues into unrelated threads, but I completely
misread you here.

Mitchell Coffey


J.J. O'Shea

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Nov 3, 2012, 7:24:04 AM11/3/12
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 16:44:44 -0400, pnyikos wrote
(in article
<f5166165-ad15-4462...@o8g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>):

> On Nov 1, 12:58 pm, "J.J. O'Shea" <try.not...@but.see.sig> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:43:12 -0400, Mitchell Coffey wrote
>> (in article <k6u8qq$nv...@dont-email.me>):
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 10/30/2012 3:15 PM, pnyikos wrote:
>>>> On Oct 21, 5:03 pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>>>> Fnord bar.
>>
>>>>> --qux.
>>
>>>> OK, DIG, what's this all about?  I thought it meant Robert Carnegie :
>>>> Fnord was barred from posting to t.o., and yet I've caught him posting
>>>> merrily away on a number of threads since then.
>>
>>>> Peter Nyikos
>>
>>> Jeez, Peter, if a tree falls in the woods do you assume it has something
>>> to do with you?
>>
>>> Mitchell Coffey
>>
>> Well, of course. It must have something to do with Peter. He is, after all,
>> The Single Most Important Person In The Universe.
>
> Unlike with Mitchell and Hemidactylus, I'm not going to ask what is
> behind this "Well, of course..." comment.

That would be because you already know, Peter.

>
> The answer is obvious. It is the ventriloquist-analogue who actually
> types the things that appear under the byline of the dummy-analogue,
> "J.J. O'Shea" <try.n...@but.see.sig>."

Most interesting.

>
> Peter Nyikos
Who is still the single most dishonest creationist currently posting on t.o.

J.J. O'Shea

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Nov 3, 2012, 7:24:59 AM11/3/12
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On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 03:32:31 -0400, Mitchell Coffey wrote
(in article <k72ha8$lnj$3...@dont-email.me>):
Peter was making a _joke_?! Be still my heart.

Walter Bushell

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In article <k6u9h...@news4.newsguy.com>,
No, that's me. But I am crazy, it is well known.

--
This space unintentionally left blank.

pnyikos

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Nov 8, 2012, 9:35:38 AM11/8/12
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Sorry , missed them all.

You are still too deeply encoded for me to fathom your comment about
Carnegie being our kingpin now.

Peter Nyikos

SkyEyes

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Nov 9, 2012, 3:47:58 AM11/9/12
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I'm afraid I'd chicken out.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
skyeyes nine at cox dot net OR
skyeyes nine at yahoo dot com

Bob Casanova

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Nov 9, 2012, 1:11:26 PM11/9/12
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:47:58 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in talk.origins, posted by SkyEyes
<skye...@yahoo.com>:

>On Oct 22, 1:28 pm, alextangent <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 22, 7:03 pm, Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:30:49 +0000 (UTC), the following
>> > appeared in talk.origins, posted by Paul J Gans
>> > <gan...@panix.com>:
>>
>> > >alextangent <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>> > >>On Oct 21, 10:08?pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>> > >>> David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>
>> > >>> > Fnord bar.
>>
>> > >>> > --qux.
>>
>> > >>> foo.
>>
>> > >>SNAFU?
>>
>> > >No. Higher magic. We underlings have no idea as to its
>> > >meaning or anything. We just quail in anticipation.

>> > ....but it's pheasant enough, unless we need to duck.

>> I'd grouse after a ducking.

>I'm afraid I'd chicken out.

Wait; let me eggsplain...

Mitchell Coffey

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Nov 10, 2012, 11:22:30 PM11/10/12
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On 11/9/2012 1:11 PM, Bob Casanova wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:47:58 -0800 (PST), the following
> appeared in talk.origins, posted by SkyEyes
> <skye...@yahoo.com>:
>
>> On Oct 22, 1:28 pm, alextangent <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>>> On Oct 22, 7:03 pm, Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:30:49 +0000 (UTC), the following
>>>> appeared in talk.origins, posted by Paul J Gans
>>>> <gan...@panix.com>:
>>>
>>>>> alextangent <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Oct 21, 10:08?pm, David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> David Iain Greig <dgr...@ediacara.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>> Fnord bar.
>>>
>>>>>>>> --qux.
>>>
>>>>>>> foo.
>>>
>>>>>> SNAFU?
>>>
>>>>> No. Higher magic. We underlings have no idea as to its
>>>>> meaning or anything. We just quail in anticipation.
>
>>>> ....but it's pheasant enough, unless we need to duck.
>
>>> I'd grouse after a ducking.
>
>> I'm afraid I'd chicken out.
>
> Wait; let me eggsplain...

Turkey.

Mitchell

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