Skip Press vs. Alt Science: which is the most boring topic of the summer?
RUBIA56
Paula
andrea bachrach
significant sample. Sorry.
ShortOnTimeGirl
Bed Sores
andrea bachrach <bach...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:4681-37...@newsd-111.bryant.webtv.net...
> Can't vote...only read three posts in each thread...not a statistically
> significant sample. Sorry.
> ShortOnTimeGirl
>
Is this the trick? Do most people only read a small sample of the posts?
How do you wade through all of it? I can kind of tell by the headers if the
subject is something that I have absolutely no use for like: HOW TO
COPYRIGHT IN THE UK or TOOTHPASTE. But you never really know where
Bettrduck is going to post and if you miss that, well that's bad.
Also, if you killfile, do you not get kind of confused in the threads. (this
question goes out to those who haven't killfiled me yet)
andrea bachrach
headers at a time with poster listed..holds 1500 before the oldest
posts disappear. I have a general idea of when a flame war is occuring.
( rapidly alternating posts between two males generally signals
trouble) I will verify that then skip to a rational poster later in the
thread to see if there's improvement or at least some wit or wisdom.
You can generally count on some people for good information, some for
humor and some for intellectual discourse that's way over my head.
Greg Beal is a good Nicholl source, WRITETV, Rabkin and Goldberg on
TV....Mike Shields is generally funny ( same for moi!!!)....Skip,
Martell, Rich Wilson, Rants or JoannaKB on biz issues...for
entertainment you want Duck and Jerv and Kingry, Brevity et.
al....Weller, Ovum, Fred B-H, Deadman, Feit, Brassfield, et. al. are
generally safe bets. To save time...avoid flames ( don't get
sucked into a war too often) help newbies when you have a spare moment
and try to enjoy. WorkingTooHardGirl
RUBIA56
>Greg Beal is a good Nicholl source, WRITETV, Rabkin and Goldberg on
>TV....Mike Shields is generally funny ( same for moi!!!)....Skip,
>Martell, Rich Wilson, Rants or JoannaKB on biz issues...for
>entertainment you want Duck and Jerv and Kingry, Brevity et.
>al....Weller, Ovum, Fred B-H, Deadman, Feit, Brassfield, et. al. are
>generally safe bets.
I'll be over here in the corner, sobbing softly.
Paula
Jig949
You are the "strong" and "well grounded" influence in the group and the fact
that you are a woman, gives me an assurance that maybe someday I too can find
my place in this crazy industry.
-Jiggy :o)
andrea bachrach
would turn my post on efficient newsgroup reading into an inefficient
post. Besides, you come-up with too many good lines.
SomewhatCompetitiveGirl
J.W. Kingry
"Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives us back our youth
But, the loving heart you slighted then
Is still yours, my friend, in perfect truth."
(c) Carter Sisters
JW Kingry
Blair P. Houghton
to sci.skeptic, where it belongs, but Milton kept posting his
replies back here only. I don't know whether he did it
intentionally, or his software screwed us. So I gave up and
turned on the crossposting and took it on faith that MWSers
know when to skip things.
Some sub-threads, though, aren't getting crossposted, and are
taking on a sci.skeptic life of their own. If you think this
one looks bad, you ought to see that group. On a slow day
half the threads get 40 posts each.
--Blair
"Just make sure you leave a trail
of breadcrumbs...you don't want to
get stuck in those woods after dark."
J.W. Kingry
such a voluminous feat of irrelevancy? Someone should wire Guinness with
a new record category for their book: "Most Spam Slung In A Single
Thread."
Blair P. Houghton
>Never apologize, never explain, no one cares.
That's "never complain, never explain" and it's one of the
stupidest rules of management ever proposed.
>How did you accomplish
>such a voluminous feat of irrelevancy?
I defied a whacknut.
From there, it's mucilage all the way down.
>Someone should wire Guinness with
>a new record category for their book: "Most Spam Slung In A Single
>Thread."
This one wouldn't even come close.
--Blair
"You weren't here for
the Dukakis campaign..."
J.W. Kingry
> >Never apologize, never explain, no one cares.
>
> That's "never complain, never explain" and it's one of the
> stupidest rules of management ever proposed.
You're referring to the MANAGEMENT quip, while I am referring to the CIA
variant. Like "Qui Bono," "The Truth Shall Make You Free" and, "Kennedy
who?" their inside jokes reveal their similarity to the screenwriter. As
LeCarre said, "What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs?
They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies,
sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten
their rotten lives."
Intelligence consists of the same qualities as the screen-scripting
trade: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a
scoop. Craft, talent, and contacts are the essence of the spy and the
screenwriter.
Any other spooks out there? A Gentleperson's trade.
JW Kingry
Steven Weller
>Weller, Ovum, Fred B-H, Deadman, Feit, Brassfield, et. al. are
>generally safe bets.
I'm a 'generally safe bet.'
Why does this seem like the way you'd describe the boyfriend the lead
dumps when she finally realizes what a swell guy Tom Hanks really is?
--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary,
Steven
Steve Mayberry
As to the original subject, anyone can see that watching borderline
psychotics make wild sweeping accusations against Skip is more
entertaining than listening to Junior College flunk-outs and conspiracy
theorists argue about water purification experiments.
Future goal for mws: if we could get Blair (the boy who could not back
down) and Skip (the boy who could not sink too low) into a flame war, we
could acheive what until now has been strictly theoretical, the Usenet
pipe dream of a "never-ending thread."
-Steve, who needs a better login name because there are 3000+ steves
already on MWS
>>> Paula coyly demurred:
>>> I'll be over here in the corner, sobbing softly.
>>Ken offered, with impish grin:
>>Mind if I keep you company?
> Paula bit hard:
> Oh, YES, Ken! Yes, yes, yes!
Ovum
(andrea bachrach) writes:
>Weller, Ovum, Fred B-H, Deadman, Feit, Brassfield, et. al. are
>generally safe bets.
First of all, I'd like to thank the Academy and my agent, manager . . .
<starts fumbling with folded up sheet of paper as I squint at the names>
. . . personal assistants, trainer, masseuse, chiropractor and dentist for this
award
<looks into audience, starts choking up>
. . . mom and dad, thank you so much!
<waves statuette at parents>
. . . And all the people at the production company and the studio . . .
<starts speaking really fast as conductor cues outro music>
. . . this just means so much to me! Thank you! Thank you very much!
<waves statuette again and gets hustled off stage>
------------------------------------------------
In essentials, unity.
In non-essentials, liberty.
In all things, charity.
-- Augustine
MwsReader
> I'll be over here in the corner, sobbing softly.
Mind if I keep you company? We can cheer each other up by
sharing quips about NeglectfulGirl's imaginative spelling...
Ken
RUBIA56
>Paula,
>
>You are the "strong" and "well grounded" influence in the group...
Well, thanks, Jiggy! But I might quibble with you on the "strong" and
"well-grounded" adjectives, and I doubt I have any sort of "influence" here at
all.
>...and the fact
>that you are a woman, gives me an assurance that maybe someday I too can find
>my place in this crazy industry.
You DO know that *I* haven't found my place in this industry, either, don't
you? I'm a bookseller/buyer making my living off the artistic endeavors of
other people. A mere dilettante in many ways, perhaps. I'm trying, but you
rarely seem to hear of "strong" and "well-grounded" people making it in
Hollywood. I'm aiming for "loose," "cynical" and "unbalanced" - perhaps prone
to alcoholism or excessive Viper Room attendance. We'll see how it goes.
There's hope for us all, Jiggy.
Paula
RUBIA56
I see. 'Fraid I'm gonna hustle some of these men-folk away with my snappy
patter? Siphon off some of your party invites? Don't worry, Andrea, my past
luck with a variety of men-folk hasn't been what I'd've hoped, and I'm horrible
at parties - so ... MORE FOR YOU! You already seem to have quite a following.
I'll just wait for the sloppy seconds.
Paula
a/k/a "EtAl.Girl"
RUBIA56
>We all do surely luv you, Ms Ruby.
>
They call me MIZ Ruby!
(Thank you! Houston? You're kidding.)
Paula
RUBIA56
Oh, YES, Ken! Yes, yes, yes!
Paula
Blair P. Houghton
>Okay, you two. Get a (chat) room...
Or at least a webcam.
>As to the original subject, anyone can see that watching borderline
>psychotics make wild sweeping accusations against Skip is more
>entertaining than listening to Junior College flunk-outs and conspiracy
>theorists argue about water purification experiments.
"Juco"--why, I oughtta...
I'll have you know I've wasted federal matching funds at
some of the finest engineering graduate schools in America.
>Future goal for mws: if we could get Blair (the boy who could not back
>down) and Skip (the boy who could not sink too low) into a flame war, we
>could acheive what until now has been strictly theoretical, the Usenet
>pipe dream of a "never-ending thread."
BT, DT. Perhaps you've heard of it? We called it
"misc.writing.screenplays" and turned it into a newsgroup.
BTW, there's no need to back down when el toro merely passes
to the side and under the muleta.
>-Steve, who needs a better login name because there are 3000+ steves
>already on MWS
And because I will now track you down and demonstrate the
parts of the Blair Witch Project that occur (O.S.)
--Blair
"Then there's the question of whether
or not lurker jerky tastes any good."
P.S. Is should be lost on nobody that the A. S. thread has
now spawned this unnecessarily extended meta-thread, which has
even less factual content in it...
Blair P. Houghton
>Intelligence consists of the same qualities as the screen-scripting
>trade: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a
>scoop. Craft, talent, and contacts are the essence of the spy and the
>screenwriter.
That, and a pair of shoes with spring-activated, poison-tipped
daggers in the toes.
--Blair
"You say Act II needs to be SHORTENED!"
J.W. Kingry
JW Kingry
J.W. Kingry
andrea bachrach
could get if she sobs on a weekly basis!!!! Go ahead, Paula, take him!!!
Go to a party with him for all I care!!! Co-author scripts together.
Enter the Nicholl together!!! Get married and make babies and name
them Skip and Chris for all I care!!!! Just don't forget my party
invites!!!! PartyGirl
Alan Brooks
Steve Mayberry wrote:
> -Steve, who needs a better login name because there are 3000+ steves
> already on MWS
Here, I'll crank up the anagram software for a second, and....
How about "Yves Meatberry"?
Hope that helps.
Alan Brooks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A schmuck with an Underwood
RUBIA56
>And why would Houston be funny?
Not so much funny ha-ha as funny strange. With your flowery prose and exotic
perspectives, it seems more likely you'd be fanning yourself with a weeks-old
copy of the London Times, sipping a G&T on the front porch of a large estate
somewhere back in pre-War times in an obscure outpost of colonial India. But
HOUSTON? The city of endless (and I mean ENDLESS) asphalt where it feels like
you're trapped in a gigantic terrarium, close to suffocation with all that damn
humidity! Where the men are loud and brash and the women are ... even louder
and brasher. And then you, there in your pith helmet and ascot. I don't know.
I can't see it.
(It was a compliment, J.W., honey....)
Paula
Steve Mayberry
>> Steve Mayberry wrote:
>> -Steve, who needs a better login name because there are 3000+ steves
>> already on MWS
J.W. Kingry
Actually I live on a landscaped acre in River Plantation, a ritzy
golfing community about 40 miles north of Houston, south of Lake Conroe,
north of the Woodlands. We are fortunate to live in a quarter million
dollar house that we bought this month $84K (cut rate - we are on a
flood plain). My office is in the sun room - about 25 x 30 feet - nice
white built-in bookcases, filled to overflowing, all around. I work at
an antique gold oak roll top that I refinished and converted to hold my
computer. I usually write in my jogging drawers and a T-shirt,
bare-foot, as close to naked as I can get and still receive visitors.
This room is the only one my wife allows me to display my museum: a
Chinese military fur cap replete with the gold and red Communist device
rests lightly on the brow of a Malaysian skull, taken by the Dyak
headhunters. A shark's jaws, a Cacharadon Megaladon shark tooth 4"x6",
Vietnamese wild boar tusks, Montagnard crossbow and poison arrows, first
century oil lamp from Palestine, a copy of the Rosetta Stone, Middle
East artifacts from 1,500 BC to Byzantine era, Muslim Brass worship
platter with the hundred names of God, my children's awards, pictures,
as well as pastel portrait of my wife, A Chinese primitive painting of
fishermen plying their nets, my spook awards, medals, and mementos, war
souvenirs, Chinese art and cooking equipment, my artwork, stainglass
projects, scrollwork, and Chinese calligraphy.
With the potted bamboo and palms, it makes the place look like a Hong
Kong antique and grotesquerie shop in Kowloon. I usually sip diet soda
and sweat under two ceiling fans. Instead of a pith helmet, I usually
wear a VietCong floppy cotton jungle hat, and no ascot... sorry. I have
been known to wear a white linen suit though.
I was curious, not offended. I thought YOU might dwell in Houston...
JW Kingry
MwsReader
Quite a jump from sharing quips! (Which I'm delighted to be able to
do with our Texas Belle... especially after the way she said "Yes!"
like that.) But I'm figuring Paula will be a lot more understanding if
we hold off on some of those other suggestions than my existing
writing partner and wife (different people) would be if we didn't.
Ken
P.S. Don't worry, Andrea... If there's a party, you're definitely invited!
(After all, those quips were supposed to be about *you*...)
J.W. Kingry
happens to me. Do I get turned down by the Nicholl-ante people? Nah! Ya
know why? I never applied. I don't need no Nicholl award. I don't even
get rained on, no more, ya know? Ya stays in yer own house and minds
yer own buidness, and no one comes to seez ya, ya know? Why should it
flood? I don't bother dem. Dey don't bother me, ya know?
JW Kingry
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Jeri Jo Thomas wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:53:48 -0500, speaking in dulcet tones,
> "J.W. Kingry" said ...
>
> -> Actually I live on a landscaped acre in River Plantation, a ritzy
> -> golfing community about 40 miles north of Houston, south of Lake Conroe,
> -> north of the Woodlands. We are fortunate to live in a quarter million
> -> dollar house that we bought this month $84K (cut rate - we are on a
> -> flood plain)...
> ->
> Umm, and this doesn't worry you? Were you able to buy flood
> insurance?
> --
> <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>
> Jeri Jo & Little Garcia Bear--
> Stop by my web page
> http://home.earthlink.net/~katana365/jjthomas/
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Mike Shields
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:59:33 -0700, RUBIA56 wrote:
>
> WorkingTooHardGirl wrote:
>
>> Greg Beal is a good Nicholl source, WRITETV, Rabkin and Goldberg on
>> TV....Mike Shields is generally funny ( same for moi!!!)....Skip, Martell,
>> Rich Wilson, Rants or JoannaKB on biz issues...for entertainment you
>
>
>
Paula, I'm sorry you didn't get mentioned, but if it's any consolation, I
didn't see the original post....
Mike
--
Kirk: Scotty, do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Of course, Admiral. How else would I maintain my reputation as a
miracle worker?
Richard Milton
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>Just so everyone knows, I tried to push the whole mess over
>to sci.skeptic, where it belongs, but Milton kept posting his
>replies back here only. I don't know whether he did it
>intentionally, or his software screwed us. So I gave up and
>turned on the crossposting and took it on faith that MWSers
>know when to skip things.
Just so everyone knows, when I meet ignorance and bigotry I fight
it where I find it, not somewhere more convenient or congenial for
the bigot.
Richard Milton
The Alternative Science Website
http://www.alternativescience.com/
Blair P. Houghton
>Just so everyone knows, when I meet ignorance and bigotry I fight
>it where I find it, not somewhere more convenient or congenial for
>the bigot.
You must spend a lot of time in the bathroom yelling at the
mirror, then.
--Blair
"I pity the toothpaste."
Geoff Kass
>
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>
> >Just so everyone knows, I tried to push the whole mess over
> >to sci.skeptic, where it belongs, but Milton kept posting his
> >replies back here only. I don't know whether he did it
> >intentionally, or his software screwed us. So I gave up and
> >turned on the crossposting and took it on faith that MWSers
> >know when to skip things.
>
> Just so everyone knows, when I meet ignorance and bigotry I fight
> it where I find it, not somewhere more convenient or congenial for
> the bigot.
>
> Richard Milton
> The Alternative Science Website
> http://www.alternativescience.com/
How good of you.
--
==================
Geoffrey M. Kass
Maddock Douglas, Inc.
www.maddockdouglas.com
Richard Milton
Geoff Kass wrote:
>Richard Milton wrote:
>
>>
>> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>>
>> >Just so everyone knows, I tried to push the whole mess over
>> >to sci.skeptic, where it belongs, but Milton kept posting his
>> >replies back here only. I don't know whether he did it
>> >intentionally, or his software screwed us. So I gave up and
>> >turned on the crossposting and took it on faith that MWSers
>> >know when to skip things.
>>
>> Just so everyone knows, when I meet ignorance and bigotry I fight
>> it where I find it, not somewhere more convenient or congenial for
>> the bigot.
>>
>> Richard Milton
>> The Alternative Science Website
>> http://www.alternativescience.com/
>
>How good of you.
Think nothing of it, old bean.
Richard
Richard Milton
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>Richard Milton<ric...@milton.win-uk.net> wrote:
>>Just so everyone knows, when I meet ignorance and bigotry I fight
>>it where I find it, not somewhere more convenient or congenial for
>>the bigot.
>
>You must spend a lot of time in the bathroom yelling at the
>mirror, then.
Thanks for affording me the opportunity to post my statement above a
second time, in case anyone missed it.
Thank you also for your submission to the Golden All-time Stupid
Answer Award. However, the Committee did not feel that it reached
the required standard. If you submit a SAE, you manuscript will be
returned to you.
Sam Samalin
Bed Sores
Sam Samalin <ssam...@ionet.net> wrote in message
news:37A319DC...@ionet.net...
> Do females flame?
>
Women do just about everything men do. Just not as well.
RUBIA56
Only when Matthew McConaughey is nearby.
Paula
D C Harris
Milton) wrote:
D C -
If I were a scientist I would like to
do tests on such as Blair.
First, is he an alien?
If not, is he a mutation?
If not, what is controlling him?
I understand actually he is a nice chap
who works at McDonalds. He has a nice
chat up line in telling girls one of his
Uncles is in The Beach Boys.
Blair P. Houghton
>Thank you also for your submission to the Golden All-time Stupid
>Answer Award. However, the Committee did not feel that it reached
>the required standard. If you submit a SAE, you manuscript will be
>returned to you.
You'd be the one against which stupid answers would be measured.
--Blair
"They should lock you in a plexiglas
case in Sevres."