So solly. Unsubscribe
Doug Huffman
interests. I found instead Barbara Streisand beyond what I could
tolerate.
E-mail me if any of the USTAFISH needs ER siggies.
Thanks Blackbeard for being here.
"Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where
they will, with wits and guns and the truth. NRA KMA$$ God damn the
Obamination and its teeth.
BlackBeard
Sorry Doug. You have to self-filter in order to maintain your sanity
on this group *if* you are going to take them seriously. Or take none
of it to heart and it shouldn't bug you.
I choose a blend of the two. I don't read the posts of idiots
especially if they are malicious. I'll read the posts of some that
aren't too bright but are at times sincere, witty or at least
pleasant. When someone always has something worth contributing, I'll
read them even if I agree with none of their posts. Lastly there are
still several regular posters that know what they post, are most often
witty, and always are interesting (again, even if you disagree with
them.)
BB
Alan Lothian
<250ade01-fb21-4e75...@d20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
BlackBeard <spk...@msn.com> wrote:
<snippaggio>
> Lastly there are
> still several regular posters that know what they post, are most often
> witty, and always are interesting (again, even if you disagree with
> them.)
I'd go so far as to say *especially* if you disagree with them.
I've had to plonk our Canadienne, though, for blood pressure reasons.
The woman is plain and simple barking mad.
Sorry about your old mate Doug, though: he really should be a little
more robust, but then it's up to him, and I surely wish him no ill.
--
"The past resembles the future as water resembles water" -- Ibn Khaldun
If you wish to email me, try putting a dot between alan and lothian.
Blueyonder is a thing of the past.
BlackBeard
> In article
> <250ade01-fb21-4e75-8a10-5938ce0ac...@d20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
>
> BlackBeard <spk_...@msn.com> wrote:
>
> <snippaggio>
>
> > Lastly there are
> > still several regular posters that know what they post, are most often
> > witty, and always are interesting (again, even if you disagree with
> > them.)
>
> I'd go so far as to say *especially* if you disagree with them.
>
> I've had to plonk our Canadienne, though, for blood pressure reasons.
> The woman is plain and simple barking mad.
>
> Sorry about your old mate Doug, though: he really should be a little
> more robust, but then it's up to him, and I surely wish him no ill.
>
> --
> "The past resembles the future as water resembles water" -- Ibn Khaldun
>
> If you wish to email me, try putting a dot between alan and lothian.
> Blueyonder is a thing of the past.
He was one of the early regulars, if not a charter member. Has his
leanings, as most do, but if I remember correctly was civil and a
valuable contributor.
However I strongly believe in personal responsibility. If you don't
like what someone says, don't read them! Or if you can accept the
inherent value of their contributions, read them but don't let it
upset you.
I post by a simple mindset.
I don't argue with children of any age, or the mentally deficient.
It's neither worth the time or the effort. Additionally it gives them
the control to bring you down to their level of immaturity. Sometimes
it takes a post or two for me to realize it is not just a
miscommunication. Eventually I will just stop bothering with them. I
have had, and still do, enough travails in my life that I will not
willingly be drawn into new ones that might create an iota of stress.
As Fred has said before, "It's USENET Dammit!"
(Ok maybe it was Gumby.)
Although I have met quite a few people that I would love to meet in
person and share some of the better things in life with– unfortunately
they are in the minority of the posters encountered. Sad, but probably
representative of the huge percentage of the populace that cannot put
politics aside and recognize what is valuable in people, even when you
disagree with them. Far left or far right, they're lost in rhetoric.
It's simpler for them, they let someone else tell them what to think.
BB
Alan Lothian
<3d375dff-2e2a-483d...@26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
BlackBeard <spk...@msn.com> wrote:
<snippaggio>
> I post by a simple mindset.
<snippaggio of extremely sound advice>
There's hardly anyone in my killfile. Two or three on grounds of
rambling idiocy -- really just a bandwidth problem, and some of them
have probably disappeared by now -- and now la Canadienne on grounds
of personal insult. Other than that, I go along with you here. Wise
words.
Now I must go off and write something by lunchtime local, or I get
fired.
Jack Linthicum
Pretty rough waking up and finding a page of nothing but PakistanPal
and Fred.
dott.Piergiorgio
> Pretty rough waking up and finding a page of nothing but PakistanPal
> and Fred.
Concur & agree (and on top of it, today I was awaken sooner because of
very futile motives)
Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.
Jack Linthicum
> "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.PiergiorgioNI...@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>
> :Jack Linthicum ha scritto:
> :>
> :> Pretty rough waking up and finding a page of nothing but PakistanPal
> :> and Fred.
> :
>
> If it bothers you that much, Jack, you could just stop waking up if
> you like that alternative better.
>
> :
> :Concur & agree (and on top of it, today I was awaken sooner because of
> :very futile motives)
> :
>
> You too.
>
> --
> You are
> What you do
> When it counts.
I sort of skim down unril I see someone who is able to handle a
question without reaching for his copy of "Funny Sayings for
Inadequate People".
Arved Sandstrom
Dan
Interesting that someone who added that last bit complains about OTHER
people having opinions...
Dan
Alan Lothian
dott.Piergiorgio <dott.Pierg...@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> Jack Linthicum ha scritto:
>
>
> > Pretty rough waking up and finding a page of nothing but PakistanPal
> > and Fred.
>
> Concur & agree (and on top of it, today I was awaken sooner because of
> very futile motives)
"Futile motives"? Molto interessante.
Ma oggi, come tutti i giorni, ho dovuto parlar francese e' quasi solo
francese. Un po' bizarro con "Beppino il Siciliano", una miscela delle
lingue da far ridere. Uomo molto simpatico. Moglie francese, il
poveraccio. Io, niente gatto, niente cane, niente donna: solo le
piante. Ah, attenzione! C'e una donna alla porta. No, non rispondero'.
Le piante hanno bisogno dell' acqua.
But apart from the occasional telephone call, I don't speak English any
more. I am not sure whether I like that or not but my French is now
nearly as good as my Italian once was. Harder to write, with all those
bloody silly accents, but some jolly fine French chaps around here. And
chapesses: Frenchwomen in their mid '50s can be,hmm, very impressive.
Full square rig, with appropriate headsails to keep them into the, ah,
wind. Droop a little, but it's simply a matter of sheet-trimming and a
good hand on the wheel. Thus, thus, dyce, helmsman. Dyce I said!
There you are: very nearly on-topic.
Alan Lothian
<dce...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108609
Really nice piece, Arved: thanks.
This gender stuff is a hoot, though. (I get all soggy and hard to
light when people use "gender" in English to mean "sex". But that's
another story.)
I mean, in French:
vagina is masculine (le vagin)
Although there are other words for that organ, starting with "la
chatte", which is definitely feminine. You actually have to be careful
when referring to female cats.....context, context. Asking une
Fran�aise how her "chatte" is doing can lead either to a discussion on
cats, a period of prolonged intimacy or a severe slap around the chops.
Context. And les Fran�aises can be pretty damned fierce when it suits
them. Hah. How unlike les jolies Americaines. I find it impossible to
discuss les Canadiennes at the moment. But if you are new to France, I
seriously advise you to be careful about "chatte-up" lines. You've been
warned: it is no longer my responsibility. You just might get away with
it. But a chap who's had his chops slapped by une Fran�aise knows he's
had his chops slapped, I can tell you.
The coarse word for penis is feminine (la bitte, which also means a
mooring post. Obsmn! Exaggerated ideas or what?)
I could go on but I will spare you all.
Jack Linthicum
> In article <DbQ0n.58677$Db2.13624@edtnps83>, Arved Sandstrom
>
> >http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_i...
>
> Really nice piece, Arved: thanks.
>
> This gender stuff is a hoot, though. (I get all soggy and hard to
> light when people use "gender" in English to mean "sex". But that's
> another story.)
>
> I mean, in French:
> vagina is masculine (le vagin)
>
> Although there are other words for that organ, starting with "la
> chatte", which is definitely feminine. You actually have to be careful
> when referring to female cats.....context, context. Asking une
> cats, a period of prolonged intimacy or a severe slap around the chops.
> them. Hah. How unlike les jolies Americaines. I find it impossible to
> discuss les Canadiennes at the moment. But if you are new to France, I
> seriously advise you to be careful about "chatte-up" lines. You've been
> warned: it is no longer my responsibility. You just might get away with
> had his chops slapped, I can tell you.
>
> The coarse word for penis is feminine (la bitte, which also means a
> mooring post. Obsmn! Exaggerated ideas or what?)
>
> I could go on but I will spare you all.
>
> --
> "The past resembles the future as water resembles water" -- Ibn Khaldun
>
> If you wish to email me, try putting a dot between alan and lothian.
> Blueyonder is a thing of the past.
I remember "quim" from Henry Miller and think of it every time our
esteamed 1/ Dr. Quin (one "N") posts.
1/ A local carpet cleaning company
Derek Lyons
The problem of late Sean isn't so much the individual posters - it's
the sheer and ever increasing volume of noise (much of it created by
created by posters otherwise admirable) as compared to the ever
decreasing quantity of signal.
D.
--
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.
http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/
-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL