Stuff from the past (was.... Re: Private for Wayland ONLY (DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE NOT WAYLAND!!!1!)
Lori
>In article <95ci6r$b6m$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,tyle...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> In article <3A799CEA...@hotmail.com>,
>> Wayland <termina...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >
>> >
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>>>What??? Germans don't care about
>>>Duke basketball??? I'm astonished!
>
>>Not to interject in a thread that
>>clearly doesn't involve me, but I
>>was curious. Just how did a Duke
>>basketball NG get to be so
>>intrinsically involved with servo?
>
>About a year and a half ago I started homesteading in alt.fan.mrclean, there
>were many reasons for this but I don't feel like typing hem all out, you can
>do a search on Deja if you're really interested, then Wayland started posting
>to Usenet after the death of Cronan, then Sergey Bukhman and Wayland became
>entangled in a Wackylacing duel of which I was the lone judge,
They were dueling over me, FYI.
>then some
>other things went down, then Sergey commandeered the group
>alt.fan.brown-eyed.girl as a tribute of sorts to Lori,
YM "alt.fan.browneyed-girl". (Btw, I am still maintaining watch over this
froup, even though neither Sergey nor I have done anything with it for
several months. It's pretty much a dead froup now.)
>then Wayland grabbed the Duke group.
And shook it and shook it untl all its loose change fell out of its
pockets.
>Of all the newsgroups hijacked Mrclean was the most successful[1] with the
>most original content. Then sometime last year I decided to kill Mrclean in a
>kind of suicide; however when Wayland occasionally surfaces in aft-s for a
>week or 2 every few months he continues to post to the Duke group.
Much to the bafflement of Duke Basketball fans everywhere. Except for Jim
Wayne, who's kinda gotten used to it. And he's a kewl d00d too. :)
>This kind of aft-s history should be recorded and available in our "FQA" but
>the man who's written the last 2 versions of said document is currently
>M.I.A. and if and when he does return I'm sure it will slip his senescent
>mind.
Hole I would just like to thank you for taking on the temporary job of
Froup Historian.
>[1] I'm not boosting only stating facts here.
It's only because of me, Scals, and J. that it became so successful, and
don't you forget it, bucko!
--
Lori
"FWIW I think she's pretty ARRRRGH herself." - Fool
Jim Wayne
Lori wrote:
>
> Much to the bafflement of Duke Basketball fans everywhere. Except for Jim
> Wayne, who's kinda gotten used to it. And he's a kewl d00d too. :)
>
"Thankee, thankee," he said, carefully rinsing his glass eye in his
teacup, inserting, then removing his teeth and polishing them on his
wig.
Jim the ancient
(I'd do all this in private, but I can't get me stump leveled with me
hook.)
J.
>It's only because of me, Scals, and J. that it became so successful, and
>don't you forget it, bucko!
Oh, please. My endless Tool and music threads supplied enough hot air
to keep all of Usenet afloat, let alone one little froup.
Shall I begin reposting them to prove my point? :)
Gosh. I almost miss Scalls...
J.
--Your beak is blinkin' like a blinkin' beacon!--