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Re: Misleading Grauniad Headline
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Ivan D. Reid
May 3, 2018, 5:04:06 AM5/3/18
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On Thu, 3 May 2018 07:43:00 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net>
wrote in <20180503074300.82bd...@eircom.net>:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:50:23 +0100
> Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:
>> It actually said
>> "Fossil sheds light on evolutionary journey from dinosaur to bird"
>> But I just read the first two worms whereupon I got very excited &
>> didn't bother to read the rest of it.
> Silly boy, sheds don't fossilise they petrify - it's the wood
> yerknow.
But you can't get the wood! Yerknow?
[Suddenly wonders if that was another risque' joke the Goons slipped past
the BBC censors...]
--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
wrote in <20180503074300.82bd...@eircom.net>:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:50:23 +0100
> Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:
>> It actually said
>> "Fossil sheds light on evolutionary journey from dinosaur to bird"
>> But I just read the first two worms whereupon I got very excited &
>> didn't bother to read the rest of it.
> Silly boy, sheds don't fossilise they petrify - it's the wood
> yerknow.
But you can't get the wood! Yerknow?
[Suddenly wonders if that was another risque' joke the Goons slipped past
the BBC censors...]
--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
RustyHinge
May 3, 2018, 7:20:44 AM5/3/18
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On 03/05/18 10:04, Ivan D. Reid wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2018 07:43:00 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net>
> wrote in <20180503074300.82bd...@eircom.net>:
>> On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:50:23 +0100
>> Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:
>
>>> It actually said
>
>>> "Fossil sheds light on evolutionary journey from dinosaur to bird"
>
>>> But I just read the first two worms whereupon I got very excited &
>>> didn't bother to read the rest of it.
>
>> Silly boy, sheds don't fossilise they petrify - it's the wood
>> yerknow.
>
> But you can't get the wood! Yerknow?
>
> [Suddenly wonders if that was another risque' joke the Goons slipped past
> the BBC censors...]
>
Oh, unforgets me: how much do I owe you for those SCSI drives?
> On Thu, 3 May 2018 07:43:00 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net>
> wrote in <20180503074300.82bd...@eircom.net>:
>> On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:50:23 +0100
>> Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:
>
>>> It actually said
>
>>> "Fossil sheds light on evolutionary journey from dinosaur to bird"
>
>>> But I just read the first two worms whereupon I got very excited &
>>> didn't bother to read the rest of it.
>
>> Silly boy, sheds don't fossilise they petrify - it's the wood
>> yerknow.
>
> But you can't get the wood! Yerknow?
>
> [Suddenly wonders if that was another risque' joke the Goons slipped past
> the BBC censors...]
>
--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.
Ivan D. Reid
May 3, 2018, 10:55:37 AM5/3/18
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On Thu, 3 May 2018 12:20:43 +0100, RustyHinge <rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk>
wrote in <pcerab$r0i$3...@dont-email.me>:
to requirement and delivered without cost via the Underground Railway
when the STFC paid me to visit Naarch for a science fair. IIRC; I was
shot at on the train on the way back and my memory may have been affected
by the trauma... (Two bullet-holes appearing in the window next to your
head can do strange things to the mind!)
wrote in <pcerab$r0i$3...@dont-email.me>:
> On 03/05/18 10:04, Ivan D. Reid wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 May 2018 07:43:00 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net>
>> wrote in <20180503074300.82bd...@eircom.net>:
>>> On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:50:23 +0100
>>> Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:
>>>> It actually said
>>>> "Fossil sheds light on evolutionary journey from dinosaur to bird"
>>>> But I just read the first two worms whereupon I got very excited &
>>>> didn't bother to read the rest of it.
>>> Silly boy, sheds don't fossilise they petrify - it's the wood
>>> yerknow.
>> But you can't get the wood! Yerknow?
>> [Suddenly wonders if that was another risque' joke the Goons slipped past
>> the BBC censors...]
> Oh, unforgets me: how much do I owe you for those SCSI drives?
SFA, or SFP depending on your favorite TLA. They were surplus
>> On Thu, 3 May 2018 07:43:00 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net>
>> wrote in <20180503074300.82bd...@eircom.net>:
>>> On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:50:23 +0100
>>> Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> wrote:
>>>> It actually said
>>>> "Fossil sheds light on evolutionary journey from dinosaur to bird"
>>>> But I just read the first two worms whereupon I got very excited &
>>>> didn't bother to read the rest of it.
>>> Silly boy, sheds don't fossilise they petrify - it's the wood
>>> yerknow.
>> But you can't get the wood! Yerknow?
>> [Suddenly wonders if that was another risque' joke the Goons slipped past
>> the BBC censors...]
> Oh, unforgets me: how much do I owe you for those SCSI drives?
to requirement and delivered without cost via the Underground Railway
when the STFC paid me to visit Naarch for a science fair. IIRC; I was
shot at on the train on the way back and my memory may have been affected
by the trauma... (Two bullet-holes appearing in the window next to your
head can do strange things to the mind!)
nickandre...@gmail.com
Oct 18, 2018, 11:49:05 AM10/18/18
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alane...@gmail.com
Oct 18, 2018, 5:15:58 PM10/18/18
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Using "Grauniad" is VERY unfunny.
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