Impersonating a clergyman - legal advice
Joe Hutcheon
being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
I have consulted my legal advisers, and they state that this is only
the case if the impersonation is in pursuance of fraud. If said
'clergyman' officiates at a ceremony of the Church of England or Roman
Catholic Church, he or she may be subject to the Canon Law of either
organisation, but not to the criminal law as it applies in the United
Kingdom.
Indeed, anyone is at liberty to establish his or her own church, and
to appoint his or herself a clergyperson.
The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
draconian in the extreme.
Paul Rooney
wrote:
Te absolvo....
In nomine patris....
(PS My proper collar is in the wash).
--
Paul
My Lake District walking site:
http://paulrooney.netfirms.com
Please sponsor me for the London Marathon at:
http://www.justgiving.com/london2004
La Puce
Hutcheon <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> writes
>There has been much loose talk in dl about impersonating a clergyman
>being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
(snip)
>Indeed, anyone is at liberty to establish his or her own church, and
>to appoint his or herself a clergyperson.
Ho good. I've got this nice lil' nun outfit ...
>The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>draconian in the extreme.
And very dangerous in a field populated by wild rabbits, I'm sure.
--
La puce
what you are is what you have been; what you will be is what you do now.
Chris Hill
>There has been much loose talk in dl about impersonating a clergyman
>being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
>
>I have consulted my legal advisers,
Well fucking good for you.
--
Chris Hill
La Puce
<ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> writes
>>There has been much loose talk in dl about impersonating a clergyman
>>being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
>>
>>I have consulted my legal advisers,
>
>Well fucking good for you.
Prat.
Wim Jay
"Chris Hill" <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:xBurk1BGwte$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk...
Oh dear, Chris doesn't like it when someone points out that "well respected"
posters in dl often spout shit.
Wim
Andy Botterill
>the case if the impersonation is in pursuance of fraud. If said
>'clergyman' officiates at a ceremony of the Church of England or Roman
>Catholic Church, he or she may be subject to the Canon Law of either
>organisation, but not to the criminal law as it applies in the United
>Kingdom.
I wonder if the canon law penalties have been updated to meet modern
sensibilities? Guilty burn 'em. Trial by ordeal?
--
Andy Botterill
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
and I thusly replied:
Seems he throws a tantrum like a little baby when things don't go his way
as well. I wouldn't allow it in my congregation.
--
The Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Smiting Revenge Against Sinful Usenet Users Since 1874
"My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins" - Kings 12:10
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Hutcheon, and I thusly replied:
> The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
> draconian in the extreme.
Do they include being roasted at gas mark 6?
Wim Jay
"Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip" <rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan> wrote
in message news:6a5720a2d556fd24...@news.teranews.com...
> The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Wim Jay,
> and I thusly replied:
>
> > respected" posters in dl often spout shit.
>
> Seems he throws a tantrum like a little baby when things don't go his way
> as well.
That will be his luvvie side coming out.
> I wouldn't allow it in my congregation.
"It". Yes, a very apt description of the wandering minstrel boy, vicar.
Wim
Joe Hutcheon
> The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Joe
> Hutcheon, and I thusly replied:
>
> > The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
> > draconian in the extreme.
>
> Do they include being roasted at gas mark 6?
Yes; after being skinned and boiled in salty water.
La Puce
>The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Joe
>Hutcheon, and I thusly replied:
>
>> The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>> draconian in the extreme.
>
>Do they include being roasted at gas mark 6?
Far too high, me lord. The longer at a very low temperature is best.
Paul Rooney
<lap...@rudlin.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
>Far too high, me lord. The longer at a very low temperature is best.
Then I have no wish to eat your Yorkshire puddings.
'Hot and fast' - let this be your motto.
Joe Hutcheon
The word 'is' appears to be missing from the above sentence.
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Rooney, and I thusly replied:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:19:49 +0100, La Puce
> <lap...@rudlin.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Far too high, me lord. The longer at a very low temperature is best.
>
> Then I have no wish to eat your Yorkshire puddings.
> 'Hot and fast' - let this be your motto.
Oh yes, you're not wrong there. Yorkshire puddings should be the very last
thing produced for one's Sunday roast. A quick flash in the oven is just
right.
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
and I thusly replied:
> In article <0fb5d5e67356f293...@news.teranews.com>,
> Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip <rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan>
> writes
>>The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Joe
>>Hutcheon, and I thusly replied:
>>
>>> The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>>> draconian in the extreme.
>>
>>Do they include being roasted at gas mark 6?
>
> Far too high, me lord. The longer at a very low temperature is best.
It's her that does the cooking. I'm very poor at this kind of thing.
Paul Rooney
(Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip) wrote:
>The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Paul
>Rooney, and I thusly replied:
>
>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:19:49 +0100, La Puce
>> <lap...@rudlin.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Far too high, me lord. The longer at a very low temperature is best.
>>
>> Then I have no wish to eat your Yorkshire puddings.
>> 'Hot and fast' - let this be your motto.
>
>Oh yes, you're not wrong there. Yorkshire puddings should be the very last
>thing produced for one's Sunday roast. A quick flash in the oven is just
>right.
Mmmm - Yorkshire puddings. The only good thing to come from the wrong
side of the Pennines.
mark horsman
j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
Although, sadly for you, I don't think it's possible to aquire one at
your advanced time of life.
--
Do unto others....
mark horsman
Wim Jay
"mark horsman" <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bli6lt$dkt$1...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
> j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
> > There has been much loose talk in dl about impersonating a clergyman
> > being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
> >
> > I have consulted my legal advisers, and they state that this is only
> > the case if the impersonation is in pursuance of fraud. If said
> > 'clergyman' officiates at a ceremony of the Church of England or Roman
> > Catholic Church, he or she may be subject to the Canon Law of either
> > organisation, but not to the criminal law as it applies in the United
> > Kingdom.
> >
> > Indeed, anyone is at liberty to establish his or her own church, and
> > to appoint his or herself a clergyperson.
> >
> > The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
> > draconian in the extreme.
> >
> Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
Something which you have obviously never had the time to do.
Joe Hutcheon's posts are probably the most humourous in dl.
wim
Paul Rooney
No 'probably' about it.
Joe Hutcheon
> > draconian in the extreme.
> >
> Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
Humour is such a subjective thing, though. For instance, the other
evening I watched a few minutes of a sitcom 'starring' Robert Lindsay
and Zoe Wannamakersomethingofit. The studio audience found their
banter hilariously funny, but to me it was about amusing as a bus
timetable. On the other hand, I laughed out loud several times at one
of Scott Adams' Dilbert books last night. And writing *about* humour
(as opposed to humorous writing) tends to be dreadfully unfunny.
> Although, sadly for you, I don't think it's possible to aquire one at
> your advanced time of life.
Possibly not. I've never acquired a taste for cigarettes or whisky,
for that matter.
Wim Jay
news:fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com
>
> I've never acquired a taste for cigarettes or whisky,
> for that matter.
What about the "wild, wild women"?
Wim
Mark Browne
<ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
>j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
>> There has been much loose talk in dl about impersonating a clergyman
>> being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
>>
>> I have consulted my legal advisers, and they state that this is only
>> the case if the impersonation is in pursuance of fraud. If said
>> 'clergyman' officiates at a ceremony of the Church of England or Roman
>> Catholic Church, he or she may be subject to the Canon Law of either
>> organisation, but not to the criminal law as it applies in the United
>> Kingdom.
>>
>> Indeed, anyone is at liberty to establish his or her own church, and
>> to appoint his or herself a clergyperson.
>>
>> The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>> draconian in the extreme.
>>
>Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
Pot, meet kettle.
--
Mark Browne
If replying by email, please use the "Reply-To" address, as the
"From" address will be rejected
La Puce
<wi...@freeuk.com> writes
>> > The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>> > draconian in the extreme.
>> >
>> Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
>
>Something which you have obviously never had the time to do.
>Joe Hutcheon's posts are probably the most humourous in dl.
Don't you even think of it. Joe's mine, MINE YOU HEAR!!!
I've seen him first :-p
mark horsman
j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
> mark horsman <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bli6lt$dkt$1...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> > In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
> > j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
> > > The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
> > > draconian in the extreme.
> > >
> > Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
>
> Humour is such a subjective thing, though. For instance, the other
> evening I watched a few minutes of a sitcom 'starring' Robert Lindsay
> and Zoe Wannamakersomethingofit. The studio audience found their
> banter hilariously funny, but to me it was about amusing as a bus
> timetable.
As a sit-com it is highly regarded. It is there to make people laugh.
Making people laugh is one of the finest things in life.
What are you here for?
> On the other hand, I laughed out loud several times at one
> of Scott Adams' Dilbert books last night.
Dilbert is often hilarious and, for many engineers, very true to life.
> And writing *about* humour
> (as opposed to humorous writing) tends to be dreadfully unfunny.
I do not generally find written humour all that funny, entertaining yes,
but not funny. Scott Adams and Terry Pratchet are exceptions to this
rule.
>
> > Although, sadly for you, I don't think it's possible to aquire one at
> > your advanced time of life.
>
> Possibly not. I've never acquired a taste for cigarettes or whisky,
> for that matter.
Cigarettes you can keep, but not having a taste for whisky? You poor sad
muppet.
mark horsman
says...
>
> Pot, meet kettle.
You are fucking clueless, aren't you?
Learn to snip. Wassock.
Chris Hill
<ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
>j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
>> mark horsman <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:<bli6lt$dkt$1...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>> > In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
>> > j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
>> > > The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>> > > draconian in the extreme.
>> > >
>> > Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
>>
>> Humour is such a subjective thing, though. For instance, the other
>> evening I watched a few minutes of a sitcom 'starring' Robert Lindsay
>> and Zoe Wannamakersomethingofit. The studio audience found their
>> banter hilariously funny, but to me it was about amusing as a bus
>> timetable.
>
>As a sit-com it is highly regarded. It is there to make people laugh.
>Making people laugh is one of the finest things in life.
I'm sure it is, but that particular programme is bloody awful - leaden,
predictable, cliched, with "humour" you can see coming a mile off. And
as for having a "laugh track" to indicate to viewers which bits are
funny... I can only assume that Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wannamaker are
being paid an awful lot of money to be associated with such dross.
>What are you here for?
The beer, mainly.
>> On the other hand, I laughed out loud several times at one
>> of Scott Adams' Dilbert books last night.
>
>Dilbert is often hilarious and, for many engineers, very true to life.
Dilbert is a documentary.
--
Chris Hill
A wobbly bobbly dribbly squiggly dog!
mark horsman
ja...@DROPTHISmarage.demon.co.uk says...
> X-No-Archive: yes
> In message <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>, Joe
> Hutcheon <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> writes
>
> >for that matter.
>
>
Would he know one if one fell on him?
mark horsman
h.demon.co.uk says...
> In article <bljj36$r2q$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
> >In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
> >j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
> >> Humour is such a subjective thing, though. For instance, the other
> >> evening I watched a few minutes of a sitcom 'starring' Robert Lindsay
> >> and Zoe Wannamakersomethingofit. The studio audience found their
> >> banter hilariously funny, but to me it was about amusing as a bus
> >> timetable.
> >
> >As a sit-com it is highly regarded. It is there to make people laugh.
> >Making people laugh is one of the finest things in life.
>
> I'm sure it is, but that particular programme is bloody awful - leaden,
> predictable, cliched, with "humour" you can see coming a mile off. And
> as for having a "laugh track" to indicate to viewers which bits are
> funny... I can only assume that Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wannamaker are
> being paid an awful lot of money to be associated with such dross.
Different strokes for different folks. I must confess to not watching it,
myself.
>
> >What are you here for?
>
> The beer, mainly.
Ah! Good man!
>
> >> On the other hand, I laughed out loud several times at one
> >> of Scott Adams' Dilbert books last night.
> >
> >Dilbert is often hilarious and, for many engineers, very true to life.
>
> Dilbert is a documentary.
<VBG>
Mark Browne
>In article <jDaipgF48Tf$Ew...@kafana.demon.co.uk>, ne...@kafana.demon.co.uk
>says...
>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, in demon.local, mark horsman
>> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>> >Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
>>
>> Pot, meet kettle.
>
>You are fucking clueless, aren't you?
No. You seemed to have no sense of humour about what was said, yet you
told Joe to get one. I'm also not usually bloody rude.
>Learn to snip. Wassock.
I can, and do. I felt that it was relevant.
Joe Hutcheon
They drive you crazy. They drive you insane.
Joe Hutcheon
> > Humour is such a subjective thing, though. For instance, the other
> > evening I watched a few minutes of a sitcom 'starring' Robert Lindsay
> > and Zoe Wannamakersomethingofit. The studio audience found their
> > banter hilariously funny, but to me it was about amusing as a bus
> > timetable.
>
> As a sit-com it is highly regarded. It is there to make people laugh.
> Making people laugh is one of the finest things in life.
Well, yes. So if you don't find my posts amusing is that my fault for
writing unfunny stuff, or your fault for lacking a sense of humour?
Surely it's neither; just a mismatch between what you and I find
amusing. The example of Dilbert shows that we share a taste for at
least one sort of humour. Other stuff I find funny:
P G Wodehouse
Flann O'Brien
P J O'Rourke
Hunter S Thompson
Peter Cook
Evelyn Waugh
Auberon Waugh
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Monty Python
> What are you here for?
To amuse myself, and others.
> > On the other hand, I laughed out loud several times at one
> > of Scott Adams' Dilbert books last night.
>
> Dilbert is often hilarious and, for many engineers, very true to life.
>
> > And writing *about* humour
> > (as opposed to humorous writing) tends to be dreadfully unfunny.
>
> I do not generally find written humour all that funny, entertaining yes,
> but not funny. Scott Adams and Terry Pratchet are exceptions to this
> rule.
Flann O'Brien can make me laugh loud, and I once had to stop reading
'Lucky Jim' on a train because my stifled laughter was annoying other
passengers.
> > > Although, sadly for you, I don't think it's possible to aquire one at
> > > your advanced time of life.
> >
> > Possibly not. I've never acquired a taste for cigarettes or whisky,
> > for that matter.
>
> Cigarettes you can keep, but not having a taste for whisky? You poor sad
> muppet.
I don't know why I've never acquired a taste for the stuff. Both my
parents used to drink it, and would get through several bottles a
week. Just the smell of it makes me gag.
mark horsman
j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
> mark horsman <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bljj36$r2q$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> > In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
> > j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
>
> > > Humour is such a subjective thing, though. For instance, the other
> > > evening I watched a few minutes of a sitcom 'starring' Robert Lindsay
> > > and Zoe Wannamakersomethingofit. The studio audience found their
> > > banter hilariously funny, but to me it was about amusing as a bus
> > > timetable.
> >
> > As a sit-com it is highly regarded. It is there to make people laugh.
> > Making people laugh is one of the finest things in life.
>
> Well, yes. So if you don't find my posts amusing is that my fault for
> writing unfunny stuff, or your fault for lacking a sense of humour?
Well, since I have a very well developed SOH, admittedly rather dry,
perhaps you could arrive at your own conclusion :)
The problem with usenet is that it lacks the visual clues that normal
social intercourse has. Writing humourously is very difficult.
> Surely it's neither; just a mismatch between what you and I find
> amusing.
Heaven forfend that we all think the same!
> The example of Dilbert shows that we share a taste for at
> least one sort of humour.
Chris Hill and I like it as it's so true to life. Perhaps you like taking
the piss out of Engineers?
> Other stuff I find funny:
>
> P G Wodehouse
> Flann O'Brien
> P J O'Rourke
> Hunter S Thompson
> Peter Cook
> Evelyn Waugh
> Auberon Waugh
> I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
> Monty Python
Not unreservedly.
>
> > What are you here for?
>
> To amuse myself, and others.
Bugger the 'others'.
I find some of the responses to my posts hilariously off track with my
thinking. This is amusement in itself.
>
> > > On the other hand, I laughed out loud several times at one
> > > of Scott Adams' Dilbert books last night.
> >
> > Dilbert is often hilarious and, for many engineers, very true to life.
> >
> > > And writing *about* humour
> > > (as opposed to humorous writing) tends to be dreadfully unfunny.
> >
> > I do not generally find written humour all that funny, entertaining yes,
> > but not funny. Scott Adams and Terry Pratchet are exceptions to this
> > rule.
>
> Flann O'Brien can make me laugh loud, and I once had to stop reading
> 'Lucky Jim' on a train because my stifled laughter was annoying other
> passengers.
I've done this, although I can't, for the life of me, remember what I was
reading. Very Un-British, laughing on a train :)
>
> > > > Although, sadly for you, I don't think it's possible to aquire one at
> > > > your advanced time of life.
> > >
> > > Possibly not. I've never acquired a taste for cigarettes or whisky,
> > > for that matter.
> >
> > Cigarettes you can keep, but not having a taste for whisky? You poor sad
> > muppet.
>
> I don't know why I've never acquired a taste for the stuff. Both my
> parents used to drink it, and would get through several bottles a
> week. Just the smell of it makes me gag.
I have the same 'problem' with gin.
Sadly the fact that my auto-immune system is rather damaged means that I
can no longer tolerate alcohol in the sort of quantity that a good whisky
merits :(
Several bottles a week would probably kill me.
--
"The TV business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S. Thompson
mark horsman
mark horsman
p...@boynings.co.uk says...
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:08:48 +0100, Chris Hill
> <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Zoe Wannamaker
>
> Enough reason to watch IMO.
You can't afford her.
Craig Oldfield
ja...@DROPTHISmarage.demon.co.uk burbled happily...
> >Possibly not. I've never acquired a taste for cigarettes or whisky,
> >for that matter.
>
> How about wild, wild women?
They'll drive you crazy.
--
Craig Oldfield
mark horsman
says...
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, in demon.local, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
> >In article <jDaipgF48Tf$Ew...@kafana.demon.co.uk>, ne...@kafana.demon.co.uk
> >says...
> >> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, in demon.local, mark horsman
> >> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
> >> >Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
> >>
> >> Pot, meet kettle.
> >
> >You are fucking clueless, aren't you?
>
> No. You seemed to have no sense of humour about what was said,
If you think that then that is a source of amusement to me. Your loss if
you can't understand what is going on.
> yet you
> told Joe to get one. I'm also not usually bloody rude.
Aww, diddums.
>
> >Learn to snip. Wassock.
>
> I can, and do. I felt that it was relevant.
Yet you just come over as someone too mentally lazy to bother.
Ben Newsam
header saying 'http://groups.google.com'
>The example of Dilbert shows that we share a taste for at least one
>sort of humour. Other stuff I find funny:
>
>P G Wodehouse
>Flann O'Brien
>P J O'Rourke
>Hunter S Thompson
>Peter Cook
>Evelyn Waugh
>Auberon Waugh
>I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
>Monty Python
So, nothing written in the last 20 years, then?
--
Ben
Ben Newsam
their Organization header saying 'unlikely'
Q.E.D.
--
Ben
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
horsman, and I thusly replied:
> In article <fc52e8e7.03100...@posting.google.com>,
> j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk says...
>> There has been much loose talk in dl about impersonating a clergyman
>> being a 'criminal offence' and suchlike.
>>
>> I have consulted my legal advisers, and they state that this is only
>> the case if the impersonation is in pursuance of fraud. If said
>> 'clergyman' officiates at a ceremony of the Church of England or Roman
>> Catholic Church, he or she may be subject to the Canon Law of either
>> organisation, but not to the criminal law as it applies in the United
>> Kingdom.
>>
>> Indeed, anyone is at liberty to establish his or her own church, and
>> to appoint his or herself a clergyperson.
>>
>> The penalties for impersonating a root vegetable are, however,
>> draconian in the extreme.
>>
> Why don't you go and research 'Sense of Humour'?
LOL. So, now you have been proved wrong, you pretend it was all a joke?
Pull the other one!
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
horsman, and I thusly replied:
> In article <pi6whYV64Wf$Ew...@kafana.demon.co.uk>,
> ne...@kafana.demon.co.uk says...
>> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, in demon.local, mark horsman
>> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>> >In article <jDaipgF48Tf$Ew...@kafana.demon.co.uk>,
>> >ne...@kafana.demon.co.uk says...
>> >Learn to snip. Wassock.
>>
>> I can, and do. I felt that it was relevant.
>
> Yet you just come over as someone too mentally lazy to bother.
Your article was 33 lines, far longer than Mr Browne's 27 line whopper
that you complained about.
Learn to snip. Wassock.
--
Mark Browne
>says...
>>
>> No. You seemed to have no sense of humour about what was said,
>
>If you think that then that is a source of amusement to me. Your loss if
>you can't understand what is going on.
No loss. I'm pleased to provide some entertainment.
>> yet you
>> told Joe to get one. I'm also not usually bloody rude.
>
>Aww, diddums.
I wasn't complaining just commenting.
>> >Learn to snip. Wassock.
>>
>> I can, and do. I felt that it was relevant.
>
>Yet you just come over as someone too mentally lazy to bother.
This time it is you who doesn't understand.
newsb
<ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>Chris Hill and I like it as it's so true to life. Perhaps you like taking
>the piss out of Engineers?
Me too. Dilbert hits them and management at the same time:)
--
regards andyw
Chris Hill
<ne...@benevolent.org.uk> writes
The Dilbert books don't take the piss out of engineers.
mark horsman
p...@boynings.co.uk says...
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:42:36 +0100, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> >Zoe Wannamaker
> >>
> >> Enough reason to watch IMO.
> >
> >You can't afford her.
>
> to which I would like to become accustomed.
Possibly, although I doubt that she'd want to :)
mark horsman
p...@boynings.co.uk says...
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:41:44 +0100, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Several bottles a week would probably kill me.
>
Shush!
mark horsman
mark horsman
says...
>
> This time it is you who doesn't understand.
Oh I do.
mark horsman
p...@boynings.co.uk says...
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:43:10 +0100, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> The real question is whether she could afford to keep me in the manner
> >> to which I would like to become accustomed.
> >
> >Possibly, although I doubt that she'd want to :)
>
It is.
> and, like Richard Madeley, I get
> younger every year.
You use polyfila?
> Unlike him, I also get more interesting. I would
> be just her type now.
ROFL!
Wim Jay
"La Puce" <lap...@rudlin.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:FM0JJEUNlUf$IA...@mail-man.urbed.com...
> >Joe Hutcheon's posts are probably the most humourous in dl.
>
> Don't you even think of it. Joe's mine, MINE YOU HEAR!!!
>
> I've seen him first :-p
You can keep him - but *please* let him continue posting.
Wim
Wim Jay
>
> Sadly the fact that my auto-immune system is rather damaged means that I
> can no longer tolerate alcohol in the sort of quantity that a good whisky
> merits :(
> Several bottles a week would probably kill me.
The Co-op drinks site has Tobermory Malt and Bells Whisky on special offer.
Which do you prefer and I shall have a half a dozen bottles sent for your
personal consumption?
Wim
mark horsman
says...
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:48:58 +0100, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >bother.
>
> Sorry, but I think the quoting in the case in question was justified.
> Although I would probably have missed out the initial exchange, the
> overall length was still not excessive (just one pagedown on my PC).
Well, bully for you.
>
> Looks like a bit of a knee-jerk to me.
>
Does it? You'd be wrong as well then.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
p...@boynings.co.uk "Paul Spencer" writes:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:08:48 +0100, Chris Hill
> <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Zoe Wannamaker
>
> Enough reason to watch IMO.
Ah yes; the epitome of "jolie laide".
[Hope I've got the spelling right this time, Helene.]
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} b...@dsl.co.uk
"We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would. Yet we are
untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk "Joe Hutcheon" writes:
> Flann O'Brien can make me laugh loud, and I once had to stop reading
> 'Lucky Jim' on a train because my stifled laughter was annoying other
> passengers.
Some 10--15 or so years ago, I supremely pissed-off my [then] wife; she'd
gone to bed, and I'd stayed up to watch something on TV (probably
"Prisoner Cell Block H" in that timeframe) and was also reading Ton
Sharpe's "Porterhouse Blue". When I got to the bit where the "hero"
tried to conceal his bumper bundle of condoms by inflating them with coal
gas and poking them up the chimney, I collapsed with such raucous
laughter that I awakened her (at about 02:30).
Oddly, when that scene was enacted for real when they made a TV
production of the novel, it was nowhere near as funny as the printed
words.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk "Chris Hill" writes:
> The Dilbert books don't take the piss out of engineers.
They take the piss out of "engineers". Some of Dilbert's colleagues
belong to the new school where they design software using CASE tools,
UML, and all sorts of other arty-farty crap. Everyone knows that real
programmers design on the back of a fag packet.
Paul Rooney
{Hamilton Kelly}) wrote:
>Oddly, when that scene was enacted for real when they made a TV
>production of the novel, it was nowhere near as funny as the printed
>words.
Well, yes it was - its funniness quotient remained unaltered, at very
low. That bit of that book isn't Sharpe's best.
--
Paul
My Lake District walking site:
http://paulrooney.netfirms.com
Please sponsor me for the London Marathon at:
http://www.justgiving.com/london2004
Chris Hill
<m...@privacy.net> writes
<snip>
>Weeeell. I suppose I'm an engineer of sorts and Dilbert documents,
>witgh uncanny accuracy, many of the incidents that arise from the
>basic intellectual incompatibilities between pointy-haired bosses and
>professional engineers, usually to the detriment of the PHBs.
>However, there was one Dilbert cartoon recently that was set in a
>supermarket, with him sounding off against loyalty schemes. That was
>me.
I reckon you can tell what job someone does, and their pet peeves, by
which Dilbert cartoons they have pinned up around their desk.
Chris Hill
<b...@dsl.co.uk> writes
>In article <IU+1hVIARaf$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk>
> ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk "Chris Hill" writes:
>
>> The Dilbert books don't take the piss out of engineers.
>
>They take the piss out of "engineers". Some of Dilbert's colleagues
>belong to the new school where they design software using CASE tools,
>UML, and all sorts of other arty-farty crap. Everyone knows that real
>programmers design on the back of a fag packet.
I class the real engineers as Wally, Dilbert and Alice, and perhaps Tina
the Fragile Technical Writer. We've got a proto-Asok at work, too.
Paul Rooney
<ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> cartoons they have pinned up around their desk.
Pen-pusher?
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Baldwin, and I thusly replied:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:48:58 +0100, mark horsman
> <ma...@nospam.horsmanm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>bother.
>
> Sorry, but I think the quoting in the case in question was justified.
> Although I would probably have missed out the initial exchange, the
> overall length was still not excessive (just one pagedown on my PC).
>
> Looks like a bit of a knee-jerk to me.
He was just looking desperately for something to complain about, even if
it wasn't true, so he just resorted to his second favourite subject.
Paul Rooney
wrote:
>Looks like a bit of a knee-jerk to me.
I agree, but would omit the word 'knee'.
Andy Botterill
including marketing and HR.
--
Andy Botterill
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Barker, and I thusly replied:
> In article: <33e221db1c1687f1...@news.teranews.com>
> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan (Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip)
> writes:
>
>> Learn to snip.
>
> ....speaks a newsgroup flooder.
Dear oh dear, Neil. Has your plan to call the police about my Usenet posts
gone a little pear shaped?
Paul Rooney
(Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip) wrote:
>The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Neil
>Barker, and I thusly replied:
>
>> In article: <33e221db1c1687f1...@news.teranews.com>
>> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan (Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip)
>> writes:
>>
>>> Learn to snip.
>>
>> ....speaks a newsgroup flooder.
>
>Dear oh dear, Neil. Has your plan to call the police about my Usenet posts
>gone a little pear shaped?
You flooding flooder! Flooding well flooding this flooding group!
Chris Hill
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip <rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan>
writes
Hello Eddie. Why aren't you posting through MCC any more?
--
Chris Hill
Paul Rooney
<ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> MCC
You always make me laugh when you say Emtheethee, O minthing one.
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Rooney, and I thusly replied:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 19:17:07 GMT, rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan
> (Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip) wrote:
>
>>The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Neil
>>Barker, and I thusly replied:
>>
>>> In article: <33e221db1c1687f1...@news.teranews.com>
>>> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan (Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip)
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> Learn to snip.
>>>
>>> ....speaks a newsgroup flooder.
>>
>>Dear oh dear, Neil. Has your plan to call the police about my Usenet
>>posts gone a little pear shaped?
>
> You flooding flooder! Flooding well flooding this flooding group!
The Lord will be displeased that I have stolen His thunder. I thought it
was He that did all the flooding in the world.
Chris Hill
writes
>In article: <l+ve7VDEMyf$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> Chris Hill
Now then, Neil, you really shouldn't laugh - Something Bad may have
happened.
Craig Oldfield
h.demon.co.uk burbled happily...
> >> Hello Eddie. Why aren't you posting through MCC any more?
> >
> >ROTFLMAO !
>
> Now then, Neil, you really shouldn't laugh - Something Bad may have
> happened.
Surely not.
--
Craig Oldfield
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan
"Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip" writes:
> The Lord will be displeased that I have stolen His thunder. I thought it
> was He that did all the flooding in the world.
No; Clive Feather is the expert.
Debbie Halloway
news:106536...@dsl.co.uk:
> In article <b328e904a84f485c...@news.teranews.com>
> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan
> "Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip" writes:
>
>> The Lord will be displeased that I have stolen His thunder. I thought it
>> was He that did all the flooding in the world.
>
> No; Clive Feather is the expert.
>
Hmm that name rings a bell.
--
Debs
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
{Hamilton Kelly}, and I thusly replied:
> In article <b328e904a84f485c...@news.teranews.com>
> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan
> "Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip" writes:
>
>> The Lord will be displeased that I have stolen His thunder. I thought
>> it was He that did all the flooding in the world.
>
> No; Clive Feather is the expert.
Is He the Lord?
Ben Newsam
Organization header saying 'Dragonhill Systems Ltd'
>In article <b328e904a84f485c...@news.teranews.com>
> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan
> "Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip" writes:
>
>> The Lord will be displeased that I have stolen His thunder. I thought it
>> was He that did all the flooding in the world.
>
>No; Clive Feather is the expert.
Heh. ISTR that was just Worcestershire.
--
Ben
Wim Jay
"Neil Barker" <Ne...@nemesis.nu> wrote in message
news:26934...@nemesis.nu...
> In article: <33e221db1c1687f1...@news.teranews.com>
> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan (Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip)
> writes:
>
> > Learn to snip.
>
> ....speaks a newsgroup flooder.
>
Learn to spell, stupid boy.
Wim
Wim Jay
"Chris Hill" <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:nDHO0DCnb$f$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk...
> In article <604199...@nemesis.nu>, Neil Barker <Ne...@nemesis.nu>
> writes
> >In article: <l+ve7VDEMyf$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> Chris Hill
> ><ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >>
> >> In article <183f6213229a0e3a...@news.teranews.com>,
> >> Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip <rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan>
> >> writes
> >>
> >> Hello Eddie. Why aren't you posting through MCC any more?
> >
> >ROTFLMAO !
>
> Now then, Neil, you really shouldn't laugh - Something Bad may have
> happened.
He who lafth latht pitheth himthelf.
Wim
Wim Jay
> In article: <l+ve7VDEMyf$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> Chris Hill
> <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
Oh, how original.
Wim
Wim Jay
"Paul Rooney" <paulr...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:509unvk6ac840q9u5...@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:44:04 +0100, Chris Hill
> <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > MCC
>
> You always make me laugh when you say Emtheethee, O minthing one.
Doth Chrith lithp?
Wim
Wim Jay
"Craig Oldfield" <cr...@craigoldfield.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MPG.19ea09c52...@news.cis.dfn.de...
The voice from the back.
(No show without Judy!)
Wim
Wim Jay
> In article: <183f6213229a0e3a...@news.teranews.com>
> rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan (Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip)
> writes:
> >
> > The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Neil
> > Barker, and I thusly replied:
>
> >
> > Dear oh dear, Neil. Has your plan to call the police about my Usenet
> > posts gone a little pear shaped?
>
> Usenet posts'.
When you tried to make a complaint about someone allegedly impersonating a
vicar in *your* newsgroup, didn't the local inspector tell you to bugger off
before he did you for wasting police time?
> Otherwise, fuck off and die, dickhead.
Normal service has been resumed.
> Why are you no longer posting via mcc.ac.uk ?
YBY
Wim
Wim Jay
"Malcolm Ogilvie" <Mal...@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:qCpU8ijs0Ag$EwA$@indaal.demon.co.uk...
>
> In article <MPG.19ea09c52...@news.cis.dfn.de>, Craig Oldfield
> <cr...@craigoldfield.co.uk> writes
Even little Malcolm has joined in. How cute.
Wim
Wim Jay
> In article: <nDHO0DCnb$f$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> Chris Hill
> <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > In article <604199...@nemesis.nu>, Neil Barker <Ne...@nemesis.nu>
> > writes
> > >In article: <l+ve7VDEMyf$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> Chris Hill
> > ><ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > >>
> > >> In article <183f6213229a0e3a...@news.teranews.com>,
> > >> Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip <rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan>
> > >> writes
> > >>
> > >> Hello Eddie. Why aren't you posting through MCC any more?
> > >
> > >ROTFLMAO !
> >
> > Now then, Neil, you really shouldn't laugh - Something Bad may have
> > happened.
>
Oh, the d.l wit!
Wim
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
and I thusly replied:
If so he has quite an unfortunate name.
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
and I thusly replied:
>
Did you hear about the seaside townsfolk who are fed up with hearing the
incessant cries of "that's the way to do it" from children at school
holidays and weekends?
Wim Jay
> Who is "little Malcolm"?
Not telling - so there!
Wim
Wim Jay
"Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip" <rever...@ngelicqualities.evilsatan> wrote
in message news:7d043e41fb5c194f...@news.teranews.com...
>
> Did you hear about the seaside townsfolk who are fed up with hearing the
> incessant cries of "that's the way to do it" from children at school
> holidays and weekends?
Yes, just read about it on teletext.
It's a good job they don't have to listen to this place.
Wim
Paul Rooney
Yeth. The Tough Guy stuff is just an act to conceal - well, that's
best left unsaid. (This is according to my source, you understand -
I've not experienced Chris personlly. I'm merely repeating gossip).
--
Paul
"Chris Hill will certainly post the appropriate email if required" - JK
"What sort of proof would you like? I could post the email from Demon's
legal team, complete with headers" - Chris Hill
Lake District Walking: http://paulrooney.netfirms.com (Updated 29 September 03)
Paul Rooney
Probably copied and pasted.
Joe Hutcheon
> Joe Hutcheon <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> writes, despite their Organization
> header saying 'http://groups.google.com'
> >The example of Dilbert shows that we share a taste for at least one
> >sort of humour. Other stuff I find funny:
> >
> >P G Wodehouse
> >Flann O'Brien
> >P J O'Rourke
> >Hunter S Thompson
> >Peter Cook
> >Evelyn Waugh
> >Auberon Waugh
> >I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
> >Monty Python
>
> So, nothing written in the last 20 years, then?
In addition to PJ O'Rourke, Hunter Thompson, Peter Cook and Auberon
Waugh? Certainly. Harry Pearson has written three very funny books
('The Far Corner' being the best of the three). Simon Carr has
written just the one, but it's a comic masterpiece ('The Hop Quad
Dolly') and those books of Dave Barry's that I've read have made me
LOL.
Wim Jay
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:00:22 +0100, "Wim Jay" <wi...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Paul Rooney" <paulr...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >news:509unvk6ac840q9u5...@4ax.com...
> >> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:44:04 +0100, Chris Hill
> >> <ch...@chris-h.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> > MCC
> >>
> >> You always make me laugh when you say Emtheethee, O minthing one.
> >
> >Doth Chrith lithp?
> >
> >Wim
> >
>
> Yeth. The Tough Guy stuff is just an act to conceal - well, that's
> best left unsaid. (This is according to my source, you understand -
> I've not experienced Chris personlly. I'm merely repeating gossip).
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more! A nod's as good as a wink to a blind
demon.
Wim
Wim Jay
> In article: <blr0u3$f048d$2...@ID-133417.news.uni-berlin.de> "Wim Jay"
> <wi...@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> "Neil Barker" <Ne...@nemesis.nu> wrote in message
>> news:523344...@nemesis.nu...
>
>>> your Usenet posts'.
>>
>> When you tried to make a complaint about someone allegedly
>> impersonating a vicar in *your* newsgroup, didn't the local
>> inspector tell you to bugger off before he did you for wasting
>> police time?
>
>
> You need a reality check, Dim. Produce the article where I said that
> I was going to make a complaint to the police.
>
> What ? You can't ?
>
> Well there's a surprise....
There you go again with the old dl wriggle, wriggle, squirm, squirm.
You haven't answered the question.
--
Wim
"You are hereby served notice that you have 48 hours from the date of
this posting to apologise and retract that comment, before I then take
further action against you for defamation with your ISP and then
further if I feel it to be necessary. Do not underestimate my
willingness to do this. I take your libellous remark extremely
seriously."
Wim Jay
>
> He still hasn't answered the question. I wonder why that might be....
Simple - it's not worth answering.
Haven't you noticed anything in the past twelve months, Barking? You have no
standing in here now. You are a pygmy. For all of your bombast and bullying
ways, the vast majority of honest readers have decided you're not worth a
light. The only "conversations" you have nowadays are between you and Rage
Coldfield: Tweedledum(b) and Tweedledee, that's you two that is.
Tony Wright
>Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <b...@dsl.co.uk> writes, despite their
>Organization header saying 'Dragonhill Systems Ltd'
>>No; Clive Feather is the expert.
>
>Heh. ISTR that was just Worcestershire.
I don't suppose either of you 2 has the post about blowing out that
water conduit archived anywhere?
--
Tony
Ben Newsam
header saying '0'
Sorry no, not me. Try googling in demon.service.
--
Ben
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Rooney, and I thusly replied:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:03:07 +0100, "Wim Jay" <wi...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Malcolm Ogilvie" <Mal...@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:qCpU8ijs0Ag$EwA$@indaal.demon.co.uk...
>>>
>>> In article <MPG.19ea09c52...@news.cis.dfn.de>, Craig
>>> Oldfield <cr...@craigoldfield.co.uk> writes
>>> >In article <nDHO0DCnb$f$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk>, chris@chris-
>>> >h.demon.co.uk burbled happily...
>>> >
>>> >> >> Hello Eddie. Why aren't you posting through MCC any more?
>>> >> >
>>> >> >ROTFLMAO !
>>> >>
>>> >> Now then, Neil, you really shouldn't laugh - Something Bad may have
>>> >> happened.
>>> >
>>> >Surely not.
>>> >
>>> Well, here's hoping.
>>
>>Even little Malcolm has joined in. How cute.
>
> Probably copied and pasted.
I've noticed the BI is creeping up on his articles again.
Chris Hill
<Mal...@indaal.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <a8f3c6be803b7c80...@news.teranews.com>,
<snip>
>>I've noticed the BI is creeping up on his articles again.
>>
>Would you like to produce proof of that or shall we just mark it down
>as yet another of your pathetic lies?
Second time he's mentioned it. I don't think Eddie understands what a BI
is or how to calculate it.
Silly Eddie Fuck-up.
--
Chris Hill
A wobbly bobbly dribbly squiggly dog!
Paul Rooney
You come across as a teen, Chris.
Are you a teen?
--
Paul
My Lake District walking site:
http://paulrooney.netfirms.com
Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Barker, and I thusly replied:
> A basket case if ever I saw one.
Cracking song. I'll play it now, in fact. Beats the snot out of those
hymns I lead the singing on in Sunday service.
Joe Hutcheon
> In addition to PJ O'Rourke, Hunter Thompson, Peter Cook and Auberon
> Waugh? Certainly. Harry Pearson has written three very funny books
> ('The Far Corner' being the best of the three). Simon Carr has
> written just the one, but it's a comic masterpiece ('The Hop Quad
> Dolly') and those books of Dave Barry's that I've read have made me
> LOL.
And Michael Bywater too.
La Puce
<b...@dsl.co.uk> writes
>> Enough reason to watch IMO.
>
>Ah yes; the epitome of "jolie laide".
>
>[Hope I've got the spelling right this time, Helene.]
Spelling ok though I've no idea what you're on about :-)
--
La puce
what you are is what you have been; what you will be is what you do now.
Wim Jay
> In article: <f0036d848a4b99be...@news.teranews.com>
> "Wim Jay" <wi...@freeuk.com> writes:
>
> (Nothing whatsoever, now the idiot has thrown his toys out of his
> pram by increasing his sig in typical loser style).
You simply haven't a clue, have you, oh Mad Man?
Wim Jay
news:YS9RQJJwWcg$Ew...@chris-h.demon.co.uk
>
> Silly Eddie Fuck-up.
Hill! Report to the headmaster after playtime. You have been warned before
about your language.