I Was Told That There Was A FAQ List
Stein
article <STEINAR.92...@faust.solan.unit.no>,
ste...@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) wrote:
>
>>> OFFICIAL AFU MASCOT
>>> - My pet King snake, Elvis
>>> - Peter's pet dalmatian dog, Pixel
>>> - snopes' pet cat, snopes
>>> - Joe Chew's pet gerbil, Dicky
>>how about my non-biological ("stuffed" to you non-pc types)gator, harvee?
>How about my pet troll, Stein?
>
>-Cindy Kandolf
> ci...@solan.unit.no
> Trondheim, Norway
>
>Have any of you ever tried to housebreak a troll....?
>
Is this a coincidence? if not, I'm flattered...
'The older I get, the better I used to be' -Lykketrollet
Stein I. Krav - s...@cs.uow.edu.au
'Oh... I see you have a machine that goes PING' - !John Cleese:-)
'When thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned.' -Isaiah 43:2
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Cindy Kandolf
>>How about my pet troll, Stein?
>>
>>-Cindy Kandolf
>
"Fraid it is. The troll was named by husband Steinar, after his (the
troll's) favorite snack....
snopes
In article <1992May1.0...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...
>I was told that we didn't have to discuss whether Snopes understood
>quantum physics in this group, but I was unaware that we were going to
>discuss the species of readers of the group as well. It seems that Snopes,
>who posts to this group quite a lot, is actually a feline pet of some other
>person, who so strongly identifies with the cat that he, the owner, names
>himself after the animal. Clearly, snopes the cat as a four-legged poster
>(isn't that also some form of bed?) is already our de facto mascot.
Key: (s)nopes = human (more or less)
(S)nopes = feline
- (s)nopes
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Charles Lasner
>
>In article <1992May1.0...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
> las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...
>
>>I was told that we didn't have to discuss whether Snopes understood
>>quantum physics in this group, but I was unaware that we were going to
>>discuss the species of readers of the group as well. It seems that Snopes,
>>who posts to this group quite a lot, is actually a feline pet of some other
>>person, who so strongly identifies with the cat that he, the owner, names
>>himself after the animal. Clearly, snopes the cat as a four-legged poster
>>(isn't that also some form of bed?) is already our de facto mascot.
>
> Key: (s)nopes = human (more or less)
> (S)nopes = feline
>
> - (s)nopes
Now it seems our mascot is getting lazy and has his human master posting for
him. Well, I heard that most cats are lazy, but this is ridiculous :-).
I thought we didn't have to discuss inter-species communications on this
newsgroup.
cjl (I post for myself, my pet has little to do with this)
Warren Burstein
> Clearly, snopes the cat as a four-legged poster (isn't that also some form of
> bed?) is already our de facto mascot.
No, it's only in afc that cats use computers. In afu we only accept
posts from lemurs. Well maybe the occasional wombat.
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Kevin W. Plaxco
>In <1992May1.0...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>> Clearly, snopes the cat as a four-legged poster (isn't that also some form of
>> bed?) is already our de facto mascot.
>
>No, it's only in afc that cats use computers. In afu we only accept
>posts from lemurs. Well maybe the occasional wombat.
That's Lemmings.
-Kevin