Grandiose Claims
Glenn Dowdy
grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
nonetheless.
Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
Glenn D.
QueBarbara
I'm an entrepreneur who created a multi-million dollar company.
--
QueBarbara
Boron Elgar
<glenn.n...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
I am wiling to give you the prize based on this alone.
Boron
Mike Williams
I saved Lloyds Bank and HSBC from going bust.
--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure
Veronique
I engineered George Bush Sr's defeat to Clinton.
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Paul Ciszek
In article <hduoj2$dem$1...@usenet01.boi.hp.com>,
Depending on which version of the story is accurate, during the great
East Coast power blackout, some MIT students used 10 car batteries to
jump-start Boston Edison.
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John Mc
I chased a bank robber and aided in his capture. Oh wait, this isn't
supposed to be factual is it?
John Mc.
--
A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.
Glenn Dowdy
"John Mc" <Jo...@tdcogre.com> wrote in message news:hdv43p$mo7$1...@aioe.org...
> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>> nonetheless.
>>
>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>
>> Glenn D.
>
> I chased a bank robber and aided in his capture. Oh wait, this isn't
> supposed to be factual is it?
>
Glenn D.
John Hatpin
> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
> > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> > grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> > nonetheless.
> >
> > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> I chased a bank robber and aided in his capture.
I apprehended the burglar during a burglary, when he was carrying
several thousands of Euros from the thefts he'd just made from other
apartments.
> Oh wait, this isn't supposed to be factual is it?
Isn't it?
--
John Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
John Hatpin
The guy who plays sax on "The Pink Panther Theme" (Mancini wrote it
specifically for this guy) still owes me money.
hpjeannie
I saved my parents' lives in 2005.
(According to my mom, anyway. She *might* have regained full
consciousness in the backyard, or it *might* have occurred to Dad to
go for help or at least go inside, or a neighbor *might* have stopped
by later...but I say *she* saved their lives by asking me to get them
some milk. I probably wouldn't have stopped by otherwise.)
Jeannie
Boron Elgar
More story, please.
Boron
art...@yahoo.com
> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
> > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> > grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> > nonetheless.
>
> > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> > Glenn D.
>
> I chased a bank robber and aided in his capture. Oh wait, this isn't
> supposed to be factual is it?
"Based on a true story"
Shawn Wilson
I am personally responsible for China's turn to (or at least
towards...) capitalism.
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
>
>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>> nonetheless.
>>
>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> The guy who plays sax on "The Pink Panther Theme" (Mancini wrote it
> specifically for this guy) still owes me money.
The former Governor of Connecticut, John Rowland, owes me a free guided
tour of the State Capitol.
Mary
Ripped from the headlines!
Mary
John Mc
Actually it was. I was at Radio Shack in a local shopping center. As I
was leaving the center a fellow wearing, believe it or not, a ski mask
and carrying a big bag ran in front of my car. Since it was a warm day I
sat there for a second going- Huh? -before I realized he'd just robbed
the branch bank in the center. I saw him get into a car with black
plastic over the rear license plate. He peeled off out of the parking
lot and I followed, calling the police on my cell phone. I followed him
down the road as he wove in and out of traffic. He ran a red light and I
lost him but was able to tell the police the direction he was heading.
They caught him after he ditched his car on the edge of town. True story.
Three addenda:
One:
After I lost the robber I went back to the shopping center to meet the
police and give them a description. So to show you how unreliable
eye-witnesses are. I said he was about 6ft.,Caucasian (he wasn't wearing
gloves when I saw him) and was alone when he drove off in his BMW.
Another witness said he was Black, under 6ft and had someone else in the
car with him. I --was right.
Two:
I sat in a police car and told the detective everything I could remember
of the robbery. Afterward, he was very effusive in thanking me for what
I did. OTOH, the bank never even said thank you. I wasn't interested in
a reward or anything but did they even send a nice letter thanking me
for my help. Nope Nada
Three:
To show you the evils of gambling, the fellow who committed the robbery
had just lost a large sum at one of the casinos near Gary or Michigan
City (I can't remember which) and was trying to dig himself out by
robbing a bank. Not the brightest thing to do.
John Mc.
P.S It was afterward that I found out what he had in the bag- the money
he stole and a gun. It was a while before I told my wife about the gun.
--
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
Mike Williams
I got murdered once.
hpjeannie
Sure. By 2005, Mom had had a "dicey" heart valve for five years but,
knowing Dad had impending dementia, didn't do anything about it
because she didn't want to be in the hospital not taking care of him.
<eyeroll>
So she was pulling up some large weeds in the backyard one Monday,
with Dad in a lawn chair nearby, when she felt "funny." She sat down
next to Dad--we figure this was about 3:00--and decided a nap would be
a good idea.
I got there with milk at about 5:30, put it away, looked out the
kitchen window and saw Dad's head and shoulders, jacketless. I got
his jacket and went outside to see Mom lying on the grass next to his
chair. He said blandly that she was taking a nap. She was chilly (it
was mid-April) and semiconscious, but woke up enough for me to get her
inside on the couch and then get Dad inside and then call my husband
(a 911 dispatcher, remember). He called the sheriffs and paramedics
and they came, over Mom's feeble protests that she had to make
dinner. <'nother eyeroll>
Long story short, she had her heart valve replacement that Friday, got
back home, and had about two weeks to recover before Dad went downhill
(he was already not well but I think the confusion of caregivers, me,
and no Mom around speeded it up). I don't know if it's occurred to
her that she might well have had more time with him (and more energy
to take care of him) if she had done the valve job five years before,
when the doctor said to--but I'm sure as hell not going to mention
it. After all, as she says when she wonders if his life could have
been prolonged somehow, "they wouldn't have been able to fix his
brain." So maybe it's for the best. He was 90 when he died in 2005;
she's turning 87 later this month. They were married in 1944.
Anyhow, she's doing really well, taking care of the house and bills
and yard, and is busy fussing about Thanksgiving, when all three of us
kids + families + a cousin will be there. She doesn't have to cook
much, as SIL and cousin and I are bringing turkey and side dishes, but
just trying to find places for 10-14 people to sit will be a
challenge!
Now, I want to know how Glenn ended a war.
Jeannie
happy that hubby and brothers have no problem doing the dishes
danny burstein
[snip]
>Now, I want to know how Glenn ended a war.
Does helping prevent a war count?
--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
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[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
John Hatpin
> Wasn't it Glenn Dowdy who wrote:
> >The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> >grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> >nonetheless.
> >
> >Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> I got murdered once.
Did you get better?
David Friedman
I started a war.
And, perhaps more seriously, invented a new version, or at least
variant, of anarchism.
--
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/ http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Author of
_Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World_,
Cambridge University Press.
Mike Williams
>Mike Williams wrote:
>
>> Wasn't it Glenn Dowdy who wrote:
>> >The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>> >grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>> >nonetheless.
>> >
>> >Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>
>> I got murdered once.
>
>Did you get better?
The underlying true fact is that the police came round to inform my next
of kin that I had been murdered.
There was this pounding on the door at 8am. "POLICE! OPEN THE DOOR!".
I open the door, alarmed, "What is it?"
"Is this the residence of Mike Williams?"
Me: "Yes. That's me".
"Oh. Sorry. We've got the wrong address"
Me: ???
It turned out that two guys had got involved in an argument in the
Monsieur Frog Nightclub. One of the guys went home, fetched a gun, and
waited in his car outside the nightclub for about two hours until the
other came out. Then shot him dead.
The police correctly identified the victim as Mike Williams of Evering
Road but didn't know the house number. They walked down Evering Road and
saw my name next to my doorbell.
Bob Ward
"Oh, you're looking for Mike Williams,the SPY!"
Lee Ayrton
I put a black man behind the desk in the Oval Office.
Lee Ayrton
Many of my drawings are permanantly archived by various local governments.
Lee Ayrton
I lit many major motion pictures.
art...@yahoo.com
You pyro!
plausible prose man
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
I killed Brandon Lee.
art...@yahoo.com
My vote determined the outcome of a major congressional race.
(I voted for a guy who won by only 4 votes out of over 100,000
art...@yahoo.com
That's nothing to Crow about.
Neal Eckhardt
Very good.
--
Neal
Never go to a plastic surgeon whose favorite artist is Picasso.
Charles Wm. Dimmick
permanently archived by various local governments plus two state
governments plus several courts of law.
Charles
Ted The Cat
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
I established the legal principle in federal appellate courts that a
judge must consider the evidence before he decides the case.
Les Albert
My claim is that I inadvertently shredded many pages of your writings,
and erased the computer archives of them when I worked for two state
governments.
Les
Jesper Lauridsen
>
> Two:
> I sat in a police car and told the detective everything I could remember
> of the robbery. Afterward, he was very effusive in thanking me for what
> I did. OTOH, the bank never even said thank you. I wasn't interested in
> a reward or anything but did they even send a nice letter thanking me
> for my help. Nope Nada
Are you sure the bank knew who you were?
I blew up a runway at a major international airport.
I also chased down Air Force One, but that was another incident.
Glenn Dowdy
"hpjeannie" <hpje...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cc138016-412e-4fc6...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
>Now, I want to know how Glenn ended a war.
I was sent down to Panama in early December 1989 to work in Southern Command
Headquarters for two months of temporary duty. My position there was a the
junior watch officer in the Joint Operations Center on the Quarry Heights
post. Among my myriad clerical duties was communications with the National
Military Command Center in Washington. We used secure phone and secure fax
to communicate, and since email wasn't prevalent, all reports were typed,
printed and faxed to NMCC.
A couple weeks into my idyllic tropical vacation Bush I decides to start a
war, and the DOD/NMCC delegate control of the war to Southcom Headquarters.
Come a few weeks later, the powers that be decide that we've pacified the
Panamanian Defense Forces and Dignity Battalions sufficiently to consider
that Operation Just Cause was complete. I can't remember if I typed up those
orders, but I was the one who secure-faxed them to NMCC officially ending
Operation Just Cause on January 12, 2000.
Here's a photo of the Southcom CINC at that time? Remind you of anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_R._Thurman
Glenn D., lots of war stories about Panama.
Bill Turlock
I am the best in the world at what I do.
hpjeannie
<how he ended a war>
Cool story!
> Here's a photo of the Southcom CINC at that time? Remind you of anyone?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_R._Thurman
Kermit the Frog.
Jeannie
Les Albert
<glenn.n...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
>Here's a photo of the Southcom CINC at that time? Remind you of anyone?
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_R._Thurman
Wally Cox with a mustache?
John Hatpin
> Here's a photo of the Southcom CINC at that time? Remind you of anyone?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_R._Thurman
John Major.
--
John "I like peas, Norma - oh, yes" Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
Lisa Ann
wrote:
No you didn't, that was me!
>
--
Lisa Ann
Bob Ward
wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:24:41 -0600, QueBarbara wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:04:24 -0700, "Glenn Dowdy"
>> <glenn.n...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>>>grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>>>nonetheless.
>>>
>>>Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>>
>> I'm an entrepreneur who created a multi-million dollar company.
>
>I lit many major motion pictures.
>
>
Burn, baby, burn!
Dana Carpender
No, me!
I have saved minimally dozens of lives. And am responsible for one
woman's husband's stopping coughing up blood. She said so in a fan email.
Dana
Bob Ward
<dcar...@kivanospam.net> wrote:
>
>I have saved minimally dozens of lives. And am responsible for one
>woman's husband's stopping coughing up blood. She said so in a fan email.
>
>Dana
He used to, but he gibed?
huey.c...@gmail.com
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
I thought about this for a while, and was starting to get kind of bummed
out about it ('The unexaggerated life is not worth living'?) until I
remembered this:
I once saved a war hero's life.
--
Huey
Tim Wright
All bleeding stops.
--
Tim W
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the sound it sounds like.
art...@yahoo.com
> No, me!
>
> I have saved minimally dozens of lives. And am responsible for one
> woman's husband's stopping coughing up blood. She said so in a fan email.
In attempt to save her life, my precious bodily fluids were
transferred to a new born baby girl
(I used to work near a hospital. I often donated blood directly to the
hospital. Sometimes they would call me up and say "We need your
blood". One time when they did, I was doing the predonation stuff and
I noticed a sheet describing the recipient. I know I am not supposed
to have this information, but there it was. I did not ever find out
what happened to her alas, but If she is still alive, I hope she
enjoyed my B-positive red blood cells. )
Tim Wright
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
>
>
I single handedly restored telephone service to 45,000 customers. Of
course, I also caused the outage, but it was done for good reasons.
art...@yahoo.com
> On Nov 17, 11:04 am, "Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
>
> > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> > grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> > nonetheless.
>
> > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> towards...) capitalism.
You played ping pong?
Charles Wm. Dimmick
My physician told me that I had saved his life.
I would have never known if he hadn't told me.
huey.c...@gmail.com
> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
> > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder
> > what grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but
> > grandiose nonetheless.
> >
> > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
> course, I also caused the outage, but it was done for good reasons.
See, I was responsible for stoppping a couple million pieces of spam a
day from going to the 75,000 people they were headed to, every day for a
year or so, but in the internet business, that's not terribly impressive.
Biggest telephony outage I ever fixed was 11,000 lines. Not really that
impressive either.
--
Huey
John Hatpin
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
Tonight I started renting a large shop, with 7,680sq.m of space, in
which to sell the clocks and lamps I make - a trade which pays all my
living expenses and gives me enough to save many thousands a month for
the future.
This is the fifth of my premises - I already have shops in New York,
Greece, the 19th Century and high in the sky - but this one is the
biggest. So big, in fact, that I shall moor my three-masted clipper
schooner right outside.
My beautiful, slim but curvaceous SO and I shall live above the shop
(probably about 2,000m above), as a kind of pied-a-terre, but shall
retain the nearly 12sq.km we own elsewhere, with its shimmering white
palace, extensive beaches, Moroccan house, a partly-completed castle,
an indescribable greenhouse-type building, mountains, rivers, streams,
wildlife and half an elephant.
--
John "if only ..." Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
Slow Motion Apocalypse
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
I am one of the best at what I do.
I have many fans.
Thousands have enjoyed my work. In some circles it is considered
legendary.
Opus the Penguin
> My beautiful, slim but curvaceous SO and I shall live above the shop
> (probably about 2,000m above), as a kind of pied-a-terre,
>
Perhaps we should discuss the meaning of "pied-a-terre".
--
Opus the Penguin
The best darn penguin in all of Usenet
mdg...@gmail.com
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> Glenn D.
I hiked the Appalachian Trail
I wrote a book.
I was in a major motion picture.
I was once in the same room with Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli and Sammy
Davis Jr. all at the same time and all three tried to get my attention
just to say "Hello."
mdg...@gmail.com
> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
> > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> > grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> > nonetheless.
>
> > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> > Glenn D.
>
> supposed to be factual is it?
> Actually, my brother once chased down a murderer and apprehended him and held him for the police. He received citizen of the year in Orlando FL for that.
John Hatpin
> John Hatpin (RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com) wrote:
>
> > My beautiful, slim but curvaceous SO and I shall live above the shop
> > (probably about 2,000m above), as a kind of pied-a-terre,
>
> Perhaps we should discuss the meaning of "pied-a-terre".
Sorry, literally "foot on the ground" (it's French, y'know), it refers
to a minor secondary residence in town used for access to one's place
of work. The implication is that you have more substantial property
in the country.
--
John Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
Greg Johnson
<RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>Opus the Penguin wrote:
>
>> John Hatpin (RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com) wrote:
>>
>> > My beautiful, slim but curvaceous SO and I shall live above the shop
>> > (probably about 2,000m above), as a kind of pied-a-terre,
>>
>> Perhaps we should discuss the meaning of "pied-a-terre".
>
>Sorry, literally "foot on the ground" (it's French, y'know)
I think I see a little disagreement there - 2000m isn't _that_ close
to the ground.
Nick Spalding
on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:51 +1100:
I suspect that that was the penguin's point.
--
Nick Spalding
Dana Carpender
His stopped without his dying, reportedly.
Dana
Dana Carpender
hands.
Dana
John Hatpin
Ah, I missed that. Yes, good call.
It's a pied-a-plancher. I think.
art...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:11:24 -0800 (PST), Shawn Wilson
>
> <ikonoql...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Nov 17, 11:04 am, "Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
> >> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> >> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> >> nonetheless.
>
> >> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> >towards...) capitalism.
>
How much did he pay for the Guchy handbag?
Bill Kinkaid
<RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>Nick Spalding wrote:
>
>> Greg Johnson wrote, in <pacag5djrt3oiikkv...@4ax.com>
>> on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:51 +1100:
>>
>> > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:38:19 +0000, John Hatpin
>> > <RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >Opus the Penguin wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> John Hatpin (RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com) wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> > My beautiful, slim but curvaceous SO and I shall live above the shop
>> > >> > (probably about 2,000m above), as a kind of pied-a-terre,
>> > >>
>> > >> Perhaps we should discuss the meaning of "pied-a-terre".
>> > >
>> > >Sorry, literally "foot on the ground" (it's French, y'know)
>> >
>> > I think I see a little disagreement there - 2000m isn't _that_ close
>> > to the ground.
>>
>> I suspect that that was the penguin's point.
>
>Ah, I missed that. Yes, good call.
>
>It's a pied-a-plancher. I think.
Well I spend time in the summer camping at 2000m above sea level, but
I think if you want to be 2000m above the *ground* you're going to
need artificial means of support.
--
Bill in Vancouver
Les Albert
wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:31:25 +0000, John Hatpin
><RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>>Nick Spalding wrote:
>>> Greg Johnson wrote
>>> > <RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>>> > >Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>> > >> John Hatpin (RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com) wrote:
>>> > >> > My beautiful, slim but curvaceous SO and I shall live above the shop
>>> > >> > (probably about 2,000m above), as a kind of pied-a-terre,
>>> > >> Perhaps we should discuss the meaning of "pied-a-terre".
>>> > >Sorry, literally "foot on the ground" (it's French, y'know)
>>> > I think I see a little disagreement there - 2000m isn't _that_ close
>>> > to the ground.
>>> I suspect that that was the penguin's point.
>>Ah, I missed that. Yes, good call.
>>It's a pied-a-plancher. I think.
>Well I spend time in the summer camping at 2000m above sea level, but
>I think if you want to be 2000m above the *ground* you're going to
>need artificial means of support.
He already has an artificial means of support: his shop provides the
income.
Les
John Hatpin
Yes, hence the "plancher" (it means "floor"). Our sky cabin (or
whatever) will doubtless have a floor.
plausible prose man
wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:04:24 -0700, "Glenn Dowdy"
>
> <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
> >The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> >grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> >nonetheless.
>
> >Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
I know a pretty funny joke about two Irishmen.
Stan
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> Glenn D.
I was named after George Washington.
--
Stan in NJ
Stan
> John Mc wrote:
>
>> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>>> nonetheless.
>>>
>>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>
>> I chased a bank robber and aided in his capture.
>
> I apprehended the burglar during a burglary, when he was carrying
> several thousands of Euros from the thefts he'd just made from other
> apartments.
>
With a cane through the window, wasn't it?
--
Stan in NJ
art...@yahoo.com
>
> I was named after George Washington.
If you had been named before George Washington, I would have been
really impressed.
Bob Ward
Weren't we all?
John Hatpin
No, this was about four or five years ago, when I was with my family
in Majorca. One afternoon, when everyone was out of their apartments
down at the beach or in the bars, this young Spanish dude got a master
key from somewhere and worked each apartment in turn, taking cash and
cards.
Then he got to the apartment we were in, and we'd not gone to the
beach or the bars. When he saw us he apologised and said he was the
manager and had got the wrong room, and closed the door again. I was
very suspicious and followed him out and down some stairs, where he
stopped to chat.
We had a casual chat, me not wanting to cause trouble (I'm British),
and unsure how much my suspicions were warranted. But answers to my
questions conflicted with what little I knew about the (absentee)
manager, and as I grew more suspicious he fled the scene, leaving the
rest of the apartments - about eight or nine - untouched. Those that
he had hit lost (IIRC) over 2K GBP in travellers' cheques and cash,
plus there were the cards. I was interviewed as a witness by the
Guardia (Spanish police), but never heard anything more.
As with the cane/window incident, on reflection I think I did the
right thing (surprisingly and gratifyingly), balancing assertion with
caution. After all, the guy was younger and fitter than me, could
have been carrying a knife or something, and there was no way I could
have detained him against his will. Also, I wasn't completely certain
he was a thief until I confirmed the age of the manager with a
regular; the real manager was in his 60s. And in the end, at least I
prevented some thefts and may have helped in the guy being caught.
Opus the Penguin
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder
> what grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but
> grandiose nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> Glenn D.
>
>
>
I'm a world renowned theologian.
John Hatpin
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
I've flown solo across the Atlantic twice.
Jon M
<RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>Glenn Dowdy wrote:
>
>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>> nonetheless.
>>
>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
>I've flown solo across the Atlantic twice.
I've served as a bad example to millions.
Jon M
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> Glenn Dowdy (glenn.n...@hp.spam.com) wrote:
>
>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder
>> what grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but
>> grandiose nonetheless.
>>
>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
> I'm a world renowned theologian.
>
Which world?
Peter Boulding
<2mfdg55a6vko6de9j...@4ax.com>:
>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>>> nonetheless.
>>>
>>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>I've flown solo across the Atlantic twice.
>I've served as a bad example to millions.
I'm still using a DOS program.
--
Regards, Peter Boulding
pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk (to e-mail, remove "UNSPAM")
Fractal Music and Images: http://www.pboulding.co.uk/ and
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=794240&content=music
Opus the Penguin
This one. I'm sure in the world to come my theologizing is a source of
mirth if it is considered at all.
Les Albert
<pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:02 -0800, Jon M <faceo...@omnicast.net> wrote
>>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>>>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>>>> nonetheless.
>>>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>I'm still using a DOS program.
So am I. It's Info Select, and it's a great information organizer:
www.yourdictionary.com/computer/info-select
Les
David J. Martin
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:02 -0800, Jon M <faceo...@omnicast.net> wrote in
> <2mfdg55a6vko6de9j...@4ax.com>:
>
>>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>>>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>>>> nonetheless.
>>>>
>>>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
>>> I've flown solo across the Atlantic twice.
>
>> I've served as a bad example to millions.
>
> I'm still using a DOS program.
>
>
I still use WordStar.
David
Bill Turlock
I once had the power to close Air Force runways to landing a/c.
It behooved me to have a very good reason, though. I only had two
stripes. But I could do it!
groo
>> All bleeding stops.
>>
>
> His stopped without his dying, reportedly.
So he's a quitter. No greatness in that.
--
"I was nimble as a cat. I always managed to land on all fours." - Dr.
Tobias Funke on "Arrested Development"
groo
> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> nonetheless.
>
> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
I convinced the Campbell Soup Company to stop putting large chunks of
celery in their Chicken Noodle Soup.
Don K
news:8db4cd60-28a2-49da...@g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 18, 10:08 am, Lee Ayrton <layr...@panix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:15:04 -0800, Veronique wrote:
> >> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> >> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> >> nonetheless.
>
> >> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
>
> I put a black man behind the desk in the Oval Office.
My vote determined the outcome of a major congressional race.
(I voted for a guy who won by only 4 votes out of over 100,000
You voted 4 times?
Nick Spalding
on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:23:29 -0500:
Vote early! Vote often!
--
Nick Spalding
John Mc
Chicago city motto.
John Mc.
--
I always heard the road to Hell was paved with good intentions
But nobody told me it was a superhighway!
art...@yahoo.com
No but if he won by only 3 votes, there would have been a much greater
chance that the election would have been changed after a recount. Or
maybe not.
Mark Brader
>>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
>>>> grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
>>>> nonetheless.
I changed the way the Toronto public transit system operates.
(I wrote to the TTC suggesting where a bus stop should be added, and
they agreed. For that matter, on another occasion I suggested moving
the location of a bus stop, and they did that too. 2 for 2.)
--
Mark Brader | "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.
Toronto | I said I didn't know."
m...@vex.net | --Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi"
My text in this article is in the public domain.
hpjeannie
> "Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
> > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> > grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> > nonetheless.
>
> > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>
> I convinced the Campbell Soup Company to stop putting large chunks of
> celery in their Chicken Noodle Soup.
And we are forever grateful! And honored to know the one who did it.
Jeannie
John Hatpin
I don't understand. What's wrong with celery in chicken noodle soup?
John Mc
It's not celery per se but rather huge chunks of celery. As I recall
they didn't chop the celery up so much as simply make a horizontal slice
across the stalk. Am I correct Groo?
Peter Ward
It's celery. In Chicken Noodle Soup[1]. There's nothing else to be
said.
[1] Actually the type of soup doesn't really matter, it's wrong, wrong,
wrongitty wrong regardless. Cooked celery is an abomination. Raw
celery - not much better, really, but bearable with a pile of salt for
dipping.
--
Peter, from outside the asylum
I'm an alien
email: usenet at peterward dot adsl24 dot co dot uk
http://blowinsmoke.wordpress.com/
There's another example, but I can't think of it.
- Greg Goss
John Hatpin
> John Hatpin says...
> >
> > hpjeannie wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 21, 12:46�pm, groo <afcag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > "Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
> > > > > The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder what
> > > > > grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but grandiose
> > > > > nonetheless.
> > > >
> > > > > Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
> > > >
> > > > I convinced the Campbell Soup Company to stop putting large chunks of
> > > > celery in their Chicken Noodle Soup.
> > >
> > > And we are forever grateful! And honored to know the one who did it.
> >
> > I don't understand. What's wrong with celery in chicken noodle soup?
>
> It's celery. In Chicken Noodle Soup[1]. There's nothing else to be
> said.
>
> [1] Actually the type of soup doesn't really matter, it's wrong, wrong,
> wrongitty wrong regardless. Cooked celery is an abomination. Raw
> celery - not much better, really, but bearable with a pile of salt for
> dipping.
In other words, "I'm a really picky eater"? <big grin>
I love celery, both raw (with salt, especially) and also diced or
sliced and cooked in stews, soups, etc, to which it lends a particular
rare piquancy.
Dana Carpender
Not a thing, I say. I certainly would put celery in chicken noodle
soup, were I to make some.
Dana
hpjeannie
> John Hatpin wrote:
>
> > I don't understand. What's wrong with celery in chicken noodle soup?
>
> Not a thing, I say. I certainly would put celery in chicken noodle
> soup, were I to make some.
Agreed, but diced, not in huge chunks that imply that they are there
to take up space and replace other ingredients like CHICKEN or
NOODLES, for instance. :)
Jeannie
Mark Steese
> Nick Spalding wrote:
>> Don K wrote, in <hebl1f$iik$1...@news.eternal-september.org>
>> on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:23:29 -0500:
>>
>>> <art...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:8db4cd60-28a2-49da-8d13-52939eaa1746
@g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.co
>>> m... On Nov 18, 10:08 am, Lee Ayrton <layr...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:15:04 -0800, Veronique wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 17, 10:04 am, "Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder
>>>>>> what grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but
>>>>>> grandiose nonetheless.
>>>>>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>>>> I engineered George Bush Sr's defeat to Clinton.
>>>> I put a black man behind the desk in the Oval Office.
>>> My vote determined the outcome of a major congressional race.
>>>
>>> (I voted for a guy who won by only 4 votes out of over 100,000
>>>
>>> You voted 4 times?
>>
>> Vote early! Vote often!
>
> Chicago city motto.
In Boston it was "Vote often and early/For James Michael Curley."
--
Mark Steese
=======================================================================
PS: Your second question, you thought I forgot? I didn't. I never found
the banana slug. - William Least Heat-Moon
groo
> John Hatpin wrote:
>> hpjeannie wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 21, 12:46 pm, groo <afcag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.do...@hp.spam.com> wrote:
>>>>> The current discussion on Gore vs the Internets led me to wonder
>>>>> what grandiose claims any of us can make, based on reality but
>>>>> grandiose nonetheless.
>>>>> Mine: I ended a war. Yours?
>>>> I convinced the Campbell Soup Company to stop putting large chunks
>>>> of celery in their Chicken Noodle Soup.
>>> And we are forever grateful! And honored to know the one who did
>>> it.
>>
>> I don't understand. What's wrong with celery in chicken noodle soup?
>
You are a heathen not worthy of breathing the same air as the rest of
us, that's what's wrong with it.
But you are probably to be forgiven, due to geography. Campbell's CNS is
an American institution, and MUST consist of over-salted chicken broth,
noodles, a few random tiny chunks of chicken, and NOTHING ELSE. Except
crackers, added by the consumer. Or potato chips. This is all documented
in some holy book somewhere, I'm pretty sure. Maybe the Book of
Mormon...I've never read that one.
(BTW, I like raw celery quite a bit.)
> It's not celery per se but rather huge chunks of celery. As I recall
> they didn't chop the celery up so much as simply make a horizontal
> slice across the stalk. Am I correct Groo?
That matches my recollection.
In their response letter, they pointed out that CNS always had celery in
the recipe, just not visible chunks. But they relented nonetheless, and
sent me a refund for a can or two of soup (two quarters, taped to an IBM
punch card, which at the time was pretty awesome) along with an
autographed photo of Lassie (or maybe it was Rin Tin Tin, I don't
remember...their autographs are similar).
The sad thing is, even if I exaggerate, that is pretty much the crowning
accomplishment of my life (so far).
Oh, wait. For two years, I published a weekly summary of the ramblings
of a bunch of halfwits and misanthropes!
--
But which one should go on my tombstone?
John Hatpin
> Oh, wait. For two years, I published a weekly summary of the ramblings
> of a bunch of halfwits and misanthropes!
Did the Groosum last all of two years? Wow, time flies when you're
enjoying yourself.
John Hatpin
Wait, celery's cheaper than noodles? I'll do you a swap.