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Topic Cop
Jan 23, 2024, 2:31:18 PMJan 23
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No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google shuts down this board we should just mourn him now
Adam H. Kerman
Jan 23, 2024, 2:52:19 PMJan 23
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Topic Cop <Beaver...@live.com> wrote:
>No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google
>shuts down this board we should just mourn him now
You know, that's really not funny.
>No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google
>shuts down this board we should just mourn him now
Google IS NOT shutting down Usenet. If you want to continue to
participate, start using a newsreader and become a user on a genuine
News server. We've had half a dozen threads in this newsgroup (it's not
a "Web board") urging those posting through Google Groups to change
their posting habits so the can continue to participate.
If you insist on a Web interface and refuse to use a newsreader, then
try Rocksolid.
We've had so much discussion of this. How did you miss all of it? Google
is not shutting down Usenet.
Kenny McCormack
Jan 23, 2024, 2:55:20 PMJan 23
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In article <429efe4e-6aac-47b8...@googlegroups.com>,
I thought that was all settled science by now.
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Topic Cop <Beaver...@live.com> wrote:
>No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google shuts down
>this board we should just mourn him now
Google is *NOT* shutting down this board.
>No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google shuts down
>this board we should just mourn him now
I thought that was all settled science by now.
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Louis Epstein
Jan 23, 2024, 10:16:59 PMJan 23
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Topic Cop <Beaver...@live.com> wrote:
> No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google shuts down this board we should just mourn him now
Google has no power to end the NNTP world.
> No he's not dead but since he will likely still be here when Google shuts down this board we should just mourn him now
There is more to the Internet than the HTTP world!
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Topic Cop
Jan 24, 2024, 4:37:59 PMJan 24
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Jan 24, 2024, 8:06:20 PMJan 24
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Well, I refuse to speculate about what I'd most miss about Starr, inasmuch as I might very well die years or even decades before he does.
After all, as every serious Beatles fan knows, young Richard Starkey was a sickly child for some of his youth, and, during a bedridden bout with some illness (after they hit it big in 1964), was even replaced for nine Eastern Hemisphere concerts, including a bunch down under in Australia. Nevertheless, not many Beattlemaniacs in the audience even noticed, as his replacement--by NO coincidence--kinda sorta resembled the sidelined Starr.
THAT SAID, Ringo is a fascinating character on a variety of levels, not least because of his extensive film-acting career. Heck, he even played The Pope once, although not in the least convincingly. (He was more credible as that silly caveman character.) Of course, Starr was most impressive as a fictive version of himself, in the witty and whimsical "Help!"--shot in beautiful FULL-COLOR, one of several reasons "Help!" is a decidedly-superior achievement compared to the vastly-overrated monochrome "A Hard Day's Night".
But to little ol' me (as a barely-can-handle-the-basics drummer), the most interesting thing about Starr is that, while the southpaw Starr famously drums LEFT-handed, he operates his pedals RIGHT-footedly...just like I incompetently play my own kit!
(Meanwhile, I flat-out refuse to squander ANOTHER two hours of my waning life--as I did during a midnight screening at the suburban St. Louis cinema The Kirkwood in early 1973--enduring the nonsense known as "200 Motels", Frank Zappa's disaster of a self-indulgent film, with Starr inexplicably dressed AND made-up as the late Zappa himself.)
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
After all, as every serious Beatles fan knows, young Richard Starkey was a sickly child for some of his youth, and, during a bedridden bout with some illness (after they hit it big in 1964), was even replaced for nine Eastern Hemisphere concerts, including a bunch down under in Australia. Nevertheless, not many Beattlemaniacs in the audience even noticed, as his replacement--by NO coincidence--kinda sorta resembled the sidelined Starr.
THAT SAID, Ringo is a fascinating character on a variety of levels, not least because of his extensive film-acting career. Heck, he even played The Pope once, although not in the least convincingly. (He was more credible as that silly caveman character.) Of course, Starr was most impressive as a fictive version of himself, in the witty and whimsical "Help!"--shot in beautiful FULL-COLOR, one of several reasons "Help!" is a decidedly-superior achievement compared to the vastly-overrated monochrome "A Hard Day's Night".
But to little ol' me (as a barely-can-handle-the-basics drummer), the most interesting thing about Starr is that, while the southpaw Starr famously drums LEFT-handed, he operates his pedals RIGHT-footedly...just like I incompetently play my own kit!
(Meanwhile, I flat-out refuse to squander ANOTHER two hours of my waning life--as I did during a midnight screening at the suburban St. Louis cinema The Kirkwood in early 1973--enduring the nonsense known as "200 Motels", Frank Zappa's disaster of a self-indulgent film, with Starr inexplicably dressed AND made-up as the late Zappa himself.)
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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