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Colette Reap

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Apr 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/28/96
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This meet report was the joint product of all the attendees. None of
them can take responsibility for any of the following.

Attendees being :
Alex the Eternally Harassed
David Z
Adrian M. Wragg
Emmet Krisma O'Brien
Colette.net.goddess.Reap
Alan the Bellinghman
Rob Collier

Emmet : "I got there first, cos Emmet is omnipresent. Karen K. is
sorely missed."

Rob : "I got there last, cos of British Rail."

Adrian : "I'm saying nothing, I'm too busy typing."

David : "Look what Emmet did to my camera!"

[ Cut to picture of David's camera on full zoom, on extended
lens]

Adrian : "Is *Emmet* old enough to shave yet?"

Emmet only fancies 97.6% of the population, not including dead people,
males, and non-humans.

Emmet : "And those under-age!"

Rob : "The Annotated Pratchett File [AFP 7a sneak preview] was
annotated itself by Adrian at great length."

All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

What we didn't realise was that there was a psychedelic party being
held in the pub but it all seemed quite appropriate at the time...

There was some discussion on Babylon 5 and much discussion on
alt.fan.emmet, with the discussion ranging from what should go into
the FAQ to what would be involved in setting up an entire emmet.*
hierarchy.

At about 10pm the noise from the party in the pub got to a level which
suggested that it was time we weren't there, so the meet moved en
masse to the house of the goddess, where (amongst other things):
- coffee was drunk
- pizza was ordered and consumed
- Rob made friends with Elric, one of the resident cats
- documentary evidence was produced to substantiate one of the
annotations in afp7a
- Pterry's appearance on Blue Peter was watched
- after a trawl through the cable channels, there was a short
discussion on how many purity points the couple seen bonking on the
billiard table should lose
- Worms, Worms Reinforcements and Dragon Lore were demonstrated

The meeting finally ended at about 2am. All we have to do now is wait
for the pictures :-)


CyberCat

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Apr 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/28/96
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col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk (Colette Reap) wrote:

[SNIP]

>All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
>Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

That should be Jumps, not Jumped. Otherwise it doesn't work.
(And I assume you meant APF not AFP)

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John Fouhy

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Apr 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/29/96
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In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?

> - Worms, Worms Reinforcements and Dragon Lore were demonstrated

Reinforcements? What is this, and whence can it be acquired, preferably
cheaply?

James Brokaw

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Apr 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/29/96
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In his/her own special way, Colette Reap wrote:

> - coffee was drunk

Can you explain how coffee is anything but sober?

> - pizza was ordered and consumed

Intoxicated coffee, ordering pizza around.... Maybe I need a new parser.

> - after a trawl through the cable channels, there was a short
> discussion on how many purity points the couple seen bonking on the
> billiard table should lose

(1) Who were the couple?
(2) Why were you watching cable if someone was bonking on your billard
table?

...eagerly awaiting the jpgs on the Web...

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Archery

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Colette Reap (col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: This meet report was the joint product of all the attendees. None of

: them can take responsibility for any of the following.

: Attendees being :

And Lurkers

We got there last...

: What we didn't realise was that there was a psychedelic party being


: held in the pub but it all seemed quite appropriate at the time...

They played some punk in that there party... i think they got the
music mixed up...

: There was some discussion

Which we missed cos it was loud in the pub....
so we talked about how sad it was to be there and whether it was
the apf 7.0 or a preview of 7a you where annotating...
Oh and watched to people playing crystal maze...


After you left we finnished up and whent for a kebab
and then whent to catch the train back.

A very quiet night then...

A lurker

Alex the Eternally Harassed

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Apr 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/29/96
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jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy) wrote:

>In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
>> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

>Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?

It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!


The Bellinghman

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On 29 Apr 1996 18:02:53 +0100, Archery (Archery) wrote:

>Colette Reap (col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: This meet report was the joint product of all the attendees. None of
>: them can take responsibility for any of the following.
>
>: Attendees being :
>
>And Lurkers
>
>We got there last...

You shoul have introduced yourself. Silly people.

>: What we didn't realise was that there was a psychedelic party being
>: held in the pub but it all seemed quite appropriate at the time...
>
>They played some punk in that there party... i think they got the
>music mixed up...
>
>: There was some discussion
>
>Which we missed cos it was loud in the pub....
>so we talked about how sad it was to be there and whether it was
>the apf 7.0 or a preview of 7a you where annotating...
>Oh and watched to people playing crystal maze...
>
>
>After you left we finnished up and whent for a kebab
>and then whent to catch the train back.

Ah, so you missed the Whiskey (Irish Single Malt - thanks to Rob
Cotteril (sp?) for that).

>A very quiet night then...
>
>A lurker

Ah, so *you* were responsible for the posting in the gents.

The yellow 3M postit saying - 'Lurking'

Alan
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David Zeraschi

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Apr 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/29/96
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James Brokaw <hedg...@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu> writes

>In his/her own special way, Colette Reap wrote:
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
JIMMY !!!

A bad move, especially about the Goddess, even if your are one too.

>> - coffee was drunk
>
>Can you explain how coffee is anything but sober?

Irish coffee?

>> - pizza was ordered and consumed
>
>Intoxicated coffee, ordering pizza around.... Maybe I need a new parser.

:-)

>> - after a trawl through the cable channels, there was a short
>> discussion on how many purity points the couple seen bonking on the
>> billiard table should lose

Depends on what they had already done of course or are we going for the
maximum that it could be worth?

>(1) Who were the couple?
>(2) Why were you watching cable if someone was bonking on your billard
> table?
>...eagerly awaiting the jpgs on the Web...

Of the bonking billiard couple or the meet?

David Z

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Mark Burbidge

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Apr 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/30/96
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The fair Colette wrote:

> - after a trawl through the cable channels, there was a short
> discussion on how many purity points the couple seen bonking on the
> billiard table should lose

Of course if I was anything other than completely dignified and a
gentleman[1] then it would be very easy to make lots of cheap gags
here such as:

"Did the balls get scattered?" or "Did they manage to pocket the balls
FIRST?"

However, as I am such a gentleman I will not even allow my self to
think such things.

Incidentally, where was this meet?

[1] You dare, you just dare.[2]
[2] That includes you too, Lee.

Mark Burbidge http://www.ftech.net/~monark/

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from bad to worse.

'73 Chevy Pick-up

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Apr 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/30/96
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In article 1604...@news.demon.co.uk, al...@doughnut.demon.co.uk (The Bellinghman) writes:
>On 29 Apr 1996 18:02:53 +0100, Archery (Archery) wrote:
>
>>Colette Reap (col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>>: This meet report was the joint product of all the attendees. None of
>>: them can take responsibility for any of the following.
>>
>>: Attendees being :
>>
>>And Lurkers
[..]

>>A very quiet night then...
>>
>>A lurker
>
>Ah, so *you* were responsible for the posting in the gents.
>
>The yellow 3M postit saying - 'Lurking'

ROTFL!

Were there any spammers on a pub crawl between the afp, afd-a and the
rec.arts.sf.* meets? You know, having a half in each pub, trying to
sell you network marketing in a loud annoying voice and eating all the
peanuts off the bar?

'73


CyberCat

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Apr 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/30/96
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hedg...@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu (James Brokaw) wrote:

>In his/her own special way, Colette Reap wrote:

>> - coffee was drunk

>Can you explain how coffee is anything but sober?

Irish coffee?

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Colette Reap

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Apr 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/30/96
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On 29 Apr 1996 20:17:46 +1200, jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John
Fouhy) wrote:

>In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> - Worms, Worms Reinforcements and Dragon Lore were demonstrated
>
>Reinforcements? What is this, and whence can it be acquired, preferably
>cheaply?

It's the add-on to Worms - you get more weapons, more speech, a
remixed version of the song and generally more options.

Bought it at my nearest computer games store for GBP14.99. It's
only been available for 2-3-weeks and is so up to date that the team
in the original that was called 'Take This' has been renamed as 'Took
That' :-)

Colette@work

CyberCat

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Apr 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/30/96
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Al...@dial.pipex.com (Alex the Eternally Harassed) wrote:

>jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy) wrote:

>>In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>>Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
>>> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

>>Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?

>It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

And it's the shortest one you can make[1]. We used it in the army to
send testmessages with the (radio)telex, to see if all letters on the
machine worked.

[1] As far as I know.

Archery

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The Bellinghman (al...@doughnut.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: On 29 Apr 1996 18:02:53 +0100, Archery (Archery) wrote:

: >Colette Reap (col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: >: This meet report was the joint product of all the attendees. None of
: >: them can take responsibility for any of the following.
: >

: >And Lurkers
: >

: You shoul have introduced yourself. Silly people.

But we where lurking. Not much point in lurking if you introduce your selves
is there?

: Ah, so you missed the Whiskey (Irish Single Malt - thanks to Rob
: Cotteril (sp?) for that).

Ah well whiskey or whisky for that matter is one (or many) of those drinks
that I haven't aquired the taste for...

: Ah, so *you* were responsible for the posting in the gents.

: The yellow 3M postit saying - 'Lurking'

Not guily M'lud it was him *points at the other lurker*
who turned it upside down then?

A lurker

!David/ Kirsty Damerell

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Apr 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/30/96
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In article <4m57ls$m...@ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk>, Archery <Archery> wrote:
[Something based on the belief that he was an anonymous lurker...]
A selection of headers from Archery's post follows:
Path: lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.
+ brunel.ac.uk!not-for-mail
From: Archery (Archery)
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
Sender: xxsu...@brunel.ac.uk
Message-ID: <4m57ls$m...@ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk

A little work with finger produces...
$ finger xxsu...@ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk
[ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk]
Login Name TTY Idle When Where
xxsuarch Archery < . . . . >
$ finger xxsu...@nntp0.brunel.ac.uk
[mimas.brunel.ac.uk]
Login Name TTY Idle When Where
xxsuarch Archery < . . . . >

Gotcha! Now, if you'd just be so good as to tell us which machine you'd
like to recieve mail at, you can stop going to all that work to forge
From: lines...

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Colm Buckley

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> == m.la...@student.utwente.nl (CyberCat)
>> == Al...@dial.pipex.com (Alex the Eternally Harassed)
>>> == jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy)
>>>> == Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk>

>>>> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
>>>> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

>>> Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?

>> It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

> And it's the shortest one you can make[1].

"Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks" is listed in the Guinnes Book of
Records. I'm sure there was another 26-in-26 posted here not so long
ago.

Colm

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Lee Staniforth

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In article <3185a76f...@news.ftech.net>, Mark Burbidge
<ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk> writes

>The fair Colette wrote:
>
>> - after a trawl through the cable channels, there was a short
>> discussion on how many purity points the couple seen bonking on the
>> billiard table should lose
>
Of course if I was anything other than completely dignified and a
gentleman[1] then it would be very easy to make lots of cheap gags
here such as:

<snip REALLY cheap gags

>Incidentally, where was this meet?

Hmm. NOT in Manchester....


>
>[1] You dare, you just dare.[2]
>[2] That includes you too, Lee.

But you *are* a gentleman, Mark.

What ? What was I supposed to say ? (8^)
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Stig M. Valstad

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cbuc...@cs.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) wrote:
>> == m.la...@student.utwente.nl (CyberCat)

>>> It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

>> And it's the shortest one you can make[1].

>"Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks" is listed in the Guinnes Book of
>Records. I'm sure there was another 26-in-26 posted here not so long
>ago.

Umm..., and what does that mean? I'm only a forriner[1] with limited
grasp of the English language so there are a couple of words in there
that I don't understand.

>Dublin 2, Ireland | "Unix always behaves as though you're bothering it."

That's because you _are_ bothering it. Stop making it pick up your
mail and menial tasks like that, and I'm sure it will start treating
you like a friend or something.

Stig M. Valstad -- aka Simon Templar
Upgrading from DOS/Win3.11 to Linux this weekend.

[1] Of course, to me _you_ are the forriners.


Mike Knell

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May 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/1/96
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In article <4m3bo6$6...@soap.news.pipex.net>,

Alex the Eternally Harassed <al...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy) wrote:
>
> >In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> >Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
> >> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.
>
> >Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?
>
> It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

#ifdef ANORAK

Especially special in the world of data communications, teleprinters and
such. It acts as a very handy test message, which checks (a) whether any
traffic's getting through as well, and as a bonus checks (b) that all your
letters are printing properly!

Commonly found in test messages like the following. Extra points for anyone
(Mike?) who knows what's special about the RYs. Assuming you're using Baudot,
that is. In fact, the 'QBF' sequence, as it is known, is so commonly used
that many pieces of equipment have a special QBF generator in firmware for
testing circuits with.

ZCZC
.
RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 1234567890

NNNN

#endif

Mike (Sad? Me?)

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Mark Burbidge

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>: You shoul have introduced yourself. Silly people.

In a message posted on 30 Apr 1996 15:21:48 +0100 to the newsgroup


alt.fan.pratchett, Archery wrote:
>But we where lurking. Not much point in lurking if you introduce your
>selves is there?

The man[1] has a point . . .

>Not guily M'lud it was him *points at the other lurker*
>who turned it upside down then?

Ah-ha! ahhh-Haaa! If you are a true lurker (and you are no more) how
do you know who the OTHER lurkers are? Eh? Answer me that then.
<fx: smug glow>

[1] man, woman, neuter or hamster - I don't know.

Mark Burbidge

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In a message posted on Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:22:13 GMT to the newsgroup

alt.fan.pratchett, CyberCat wrote:
>
>>It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!
>
>And it's the shortest one you can make[1]. We used it in the army to
>send testmessages with the (radio)telex, to see if all letters on the
>machine worked.

I can't see how you'd get shorter[1] . . squeeze 26 letters into a
space for 25?

The problem then becomes twofold as far as test communications are
concerned:

a) What combination of these letters is easiest to type (and detect
errors in). qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm is the easist combination for
me to type, but not so easy for you to spot a missing letter . . . .
In other words, the combination must be in a known language.

b) What combination is easiest to send in morse? (Yes, it is still
used)

... . . -.-- --- ..- .-.. .- - . .-. . ...- . .-. -.-- --- -. .

-- .- .-. -.-

[1] Than "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - not jumped.

Elusis

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In article <4m5sma$t...@elektron.et.tudelft.nl>,
CyberCat <m.la...@student.utwente.nl> wrote:

>Al...@dial.pipex.com (Alex the Eternally Harassed) wrote:
>
>>jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy) wrote:
>
>>>In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>>>Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
>>>> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.
>>>Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?
>>It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!
>
>And it's the shortest one you can make[1]. We used it in the army to
>send testmessages with the (radio)telex, to see if all letters on the
>machine worked.
>[1] As far as I know.

Shirley someone has already pointed out "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of
quartz"...?

Elusis

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CyberCat (m.la...@student.utwente.nl) wrote:
: >>> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
: >>> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

: >>Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?

: >It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

: And it's the shortest one you can make[1]. We used it in the army to
: send testmessages with the (radio)telex, to see if all letters on the
: machine worked.

: [1] As far as I know.

Well, "The five boxing wizards jump quickly" and "Jackdaws love my big
sphinx of quartz" are a bit shorter.

But the shortest I've ever seen, only 26 letters long, is a sentence
describing some despicable rogues who tried to steal a valuable block of
rock crystal, covered with ancient carvings and hieroglyphs, from a valley
in Wales. The dastardly plan was foiled, and the rogues became quite angry
as a result of their failure: "Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks."

--
Ben Waggoner

Richard Kettlewell

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May 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/2/96
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In his/her own special way, James Brokaw wrote:

>In his/her own special way, Colette Reap wrote:

>> - after a trawl through the cable channels, there was a short
>> discussion on how many purity points the couple seen bonking on the
>> billiard table should lose
>

>(1) Who were the couple?
>(2) Why were you watching cable if someone was bonking on your
> billard table?

I guess it depends what's on cable... e.g. someone bonking on a
snooker table? Never mind...

>...eagerly awaiting the jpgs on the Web...

An MPEG would be more appropriate, shurely?

--
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http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ ric...@elmail.co.uk
If my head is in the clouds, it is because I am standing on the
shoulders of giants...

Gabriel Krabbe

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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, David Zeraschi wrote:

>
> [........]


>
> >> - pizza was ordered and consumed
> >
> >Intoxicated coffee, ordering pizza around.... Maybe I need a new parser.
>
> :-)
>

Not to mentioned burned afterwards. Or what was it consumed by?

> >(1) Who were the couple?
> >(2) Why were you watching cable if someone was bonking on your billard
> > table?

> >...eagerly awaiting the jpgs on the Web...
>

> Of the bonking billiard couple or the meet?
>

Of the cable tv, of course.

Gabriel

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T M Joyce

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David Zeraschi (Da...@zeras.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: James Brokaw <hedg...@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu> writes
: >In his/her own special way, Colette Reap wrote:
: ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
: JIMMY !!!

: A bad move, especially about the Goddess, even if your are one too.

Jimmy? Strange name for a Goddess, that.

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"I drank WHAT?" - Last words of Socrates

Dave Le Good

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In article <4m85sk$a...@eniac.demon.co.uk>,
m...@bofh.lspace.org (Mike Knell) wrote:

Much snip

>
>Commonly found in test messages like the following. Extra points for anyone
>(Mike?) who knows what's special about the RYs. Assuming you're using Baudot,


In ITA 2, 11111 and 00000 , or if you prefer the old Baubot terms, all the
marks and all the spaces.

Dave

David Sullivan

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May 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/2/96
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!David/ Kirsty Damerell (djs...@thor.cam.ac.uk) wrote:

: In article <4m57ls$m...@ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk>, Archery <Archery> wrote:
: [Something based on the belief that he was an anonymous lurker...]
: A selection of headers from Archery's post follows:
: Path: lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.
: + brunel.ac.uk!not-for-mail
: From: Archery (Archery)
: Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
: Sender: xxsu...@brunel.ac.uk
: Message-ID: <4m57ls$m...@ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk>
: NNTP-Posting-Host: ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk

: A little work with finger produces...
: $ finger xxsu...@ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk
: [ccws-31.brunel.ac.uk]
: Login Name TTY Idle When Where
: xxsuarch Archery < . . . . >
: $ finger xxsu...@nntp0.brunel.ac.uk
: [mimas.brunel.ac.uk]
: Login Name TTY Idle When Where
: xxsuarch Archery < . . . . >

Try http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~xxsuarch/, lot more enlightening.

: Gotcha! Now, if you'd just be so good as to tell us which machine you'd


: like to recieve mail at, you can stop going to all that work to forge
: From: lines...

Just send it to @brunel.ac.uk it all gets there :-)

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Dick Eney

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May 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/2/96
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In article <4m5a13$c...@elektron.et.tudelft.nl>,
CyberCat <m.la...@student.utwente.nl> wrote:

>hedg...@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu (James Brokaw) wrote:
>>In his/her own special way, Colette Reap wrote:
>>> - coffee was drunk
>>Can you explain how coffee is anything but sober?
>
>Irish coffee?

Klatchian coffee is knurd, all other coffee is slightly drunk.

-- Tamar

Frugal

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m.la...@student.utwente.nl (CyberCat) writes:

>Al...@dial.pipex.com (Alex the Eternally Harassed) wrote:
>>jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy) wrote:
>>>In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,

>>>Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>>> All decided that AFP 7a preview needed "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped
>>>> Over the Lazy Dog" scribed upon it by those attendant.

>>>Why? What is there that makes that phrase so special?

>>It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

>And it's the shortest one you can make[1]. We used it in the army to
>send testmessages with the (radio)telex, to see if all letters on the
>machine worked.

>[1] As far as I know.

There is a shorter one - it is about ducks and contains only 27 or 28 letters
in total, but I can't think of it for the life of me.

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Oerjan Ohlson

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On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Colette Reap wrote:
>
> What we didn't realise was that there was a psychedelic party being
> held in the pub but it all seemed quite appropriate at the time...
>
Should this be surprising? I mean, you were there... :)
(Or is this heresy against the .godess?)

<fx: ducks cabbage>

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John Fouhy

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May 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/4/96
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In article <3185dd66....@news.demon.co.uk>,

Colette Reap <col...@haven1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Bought it at my nearest computer games store for GBP14.99. It's

Hmm... probably only cost about $100 here then.. [1]

> only been available for 2-3-weeks and is so up to date that the team
> in the original that was called 'Take This' has been renamed as 'Took
> That' :-)

<grin>

I wonder if it works with the CD rip---err, you didn't hear that...[2]

-=)> John <(=-

[1] 'Bout 44p to one NZ$ [3].
[2] I can't afford computer games...
[3] Maths is irrelevant.

Mr Alien X. Xenomorph

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May 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/4/96
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In article <3185dd66....@news.demon.co.uk>
col...@haven1.demon.co.uk "Colette Reap" writes:

> On 29 Apr 1996 20:17:46 +1200, jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John


> Fouhy) wrote:
>
> >In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> >Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >

> >> - Worms, Worms Reinforcements and Dragon Lore were demonstrated
> >
> >Reinforcements? What is this, and whence can it be acquired, preferably
> >cheaply?
>
> It's the add-on to Worms - you get more weapons, more speech, a
> remixed version of the song and generally more options.
>

> Bought it at my nearest computer games store for GBP14.99. It's

> only been available for 2-3-weeks and is so up to date that the team
> in the original that was called 'Take This' has been renamed as 'Took
> That' :-)

Yes! The challenge option is a bit difficult.
Anyone for Networms? (Guess who's been playing for the past week)
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In article <4m85sk$a...@eniac.demon.co.uk>
m...@bofh.lspace.org "Mike Knell" writes:

<Things>


I know much of this has been said, but it is called the test slip and is the
5-bit equivalent of the 8-bit SYNSYN synchronising check. It being 5 bits,
two characters have to be used to get a regular 0101010101 pattern.

Mike.

Midnight Tree Bandit

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Sometime in the last week or so, Colm Buckley was seen stating:

>"Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks" is listed in the Guinnes Book of
>Records. I'm sure there was another 26-in-26 posted here not so long
>ago.

And just how does one pronounce "cwm" anyway? I've always wondered...

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Keith Willoughby

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May 7, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/7/96
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In article <4mjnk7$e...@anarchy.io.com>, Midnight Tree Bandit
<mtba...@io.com> writes

>Sometime in the last week or so, Colm Buckley was seen stating:
>
>>"Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks" is listed in the Guinnes Book of
>>Records. I'm sure there was another 26-in-26 posted here not so long
>>ago.
>
>And just how does one pronounce "cwm" anyway? I've always wondered...
>
You know the song Cumbaya? Cumbaya m'lord, Cumbaya etc.

Well it's pronounced like the first bit of Cumbaya.

Not come. Not Coom. Somewhewre inbetween. It means valley. In Welsh.
--
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"Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it infamy."

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Guido Lenz

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On 04.05.96 Mr Alien X. Xenomorph <Al...@lspace.org>
wrote the following in /alt/fan/pratchett
with the subject "Re: *F* [ABP/AFP] Meet Report" (831234...@lspace.org):

> In article <3185dd66....@news.demon.co.uk>
> col...@haven1.demon.co.uk "Colette Reap" writes:
>
> > On 29 Apr 1996 20:17:46 +1200, jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz
> > (John Fouhy) wrote:
> >
> > >In article <31831da4...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> > >Colette Reap <col...@reaphear.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >> - Worms, Worms Reinforcements and Dragon Lore were
> > >> demonstrated
> > >

> Yes! The challenge option is a bit difficult.
> Anyone for Networms? (Guess who's been playing for the past week)

Alien should be used to my silly questions nowadays <g>, so here is one
for all the rest:

Am I correct in thinking that Worms, etc. are Computer Games[1]?
Is this part of the DW series? Could anyone tell me more about the DW
series? Couldn't get a grab of it in Germany...

Guido

[1] Note the caps! This to differ boring or silly computer games from
Computer Games.[2]
[2] I think you got it.

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T M Joyce

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Stig M. Valstad (sval...@sn.no) wrote:

: cbuc...@cs.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) wrote:
: >> == m.la...@student.utwente.nl (CyberCat)
: >>> It has every letter in the alphabet in - but only if you use jumps!

: >> And it's the shortest one you can make[1].

: >"Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks" is listed in the Guinnes Book of


: >Records. I'm sure there was another 26-in-26 posted here not so long
: >ago.

: Umm..., and what does that mean? I'm only a forriner[1] with limited


: grasp of the English language so there are a couple of words in there
: that I don't understand.

I think cwm is Welsh for valley. Or possibly hill.

Midnight Tree Bandit

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Sometime in the last week or so, Keith Willoughby was seen stating:

>In article <4mjnk7$e...@anarchy.io.com>, Midnight Tree Bandit
><mtba...@io.com> writes

>>And just how does one pronounce "cwm" anyway? I've always wondered...
>>
>You know the song Cumbaya? Cumbaya m'lord, Cumbaya etc.

>Well it's pronounced like the first bit of Cumbaya.

>Not come. Not Coom. Somewhewre inbetween. It means valley. In Welsh.

Ah, thank you. I suspected as much, glad to have confirmation. I knew what
it meant already, though (I'm only Merkin, not *typical* merkin :)

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