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j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

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Sep 13, 2005, 7:37:00 AM9/13/05
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Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.

Here are the clues; abelard:

1) Prefers the Stones to the Beatles

2) Obsesses about shoes

3) Worships 'Princess' Diana

4) Does not understand Britain or the British

5) Believes that John Major was a 'socialist'

Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)

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j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

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Sep 13, 2005, 8:23:39 AM9/13/05
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Mickey Gee wrote:
> Since when has preferring the Stones to the Beatles been an indication
> of Frenchness?

The French have always preferred the Stones, probably because they (the
French) have crap taste in music. The Beatles were booed when they
performed in Paris.

> I thought she was rumbled years ago as being an Englishwoman living in
> south-western France just to the south of the city of Nantes. There
> used to be a link on her blog that said she was an "exile" (and a
> poster who claimed to know her once posted on alt.politics.british that
> she was actually originally from Woking), but this has been taken down.

abelard is definitely not English. She knows nothing about the country
at all.

> It could be worse- she could be Boedicia.

Hmm ... have abelard and Bo ever been seen together?

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j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

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Sep 13, 2005, 8:37:10 AM9/13/05
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Mickey Gee wrote:

> j.hutch...@jisc.ac.uk wrote:
> > Mickey Gee wrote:
> > > Since when has preferring the Stones to the Beatles been an indication
> > > of Frenchness?
> >
> > The French have always preferred the Stones, probably because they (the
> > French) have crap taste in music. The Beatles were booed when they
> > performed in Paris.
>
> The Stones are/were a far better band than the Beatles. Their
> "English rock" songs weren't up to much but the blues/rock'n'roll stuff
> (Carol, Honky Tonk Women) was in a class of its own.

Are you having a laugh? The Stones were/are a competent R&B covers
band. The Beatles had that ability, plus songwriting talents Jagger &
Richard could only dream about.

>
> > > I thought she was rumbled years ago as being an Englishwoman living in
> > > south-western France just to the south of the city of Nantes. There
> > > used to be a link on her blog that said she was an "exile" (and a
> > > poster who claimed to know her once posted on alt.politics.british that
> > > she was actually originally from Woking), but this has been taken down.
> >
> > abelard is definitely not English. She knows nothing about the country
> > at all.
>

> But she cares very much about what happens here. That is the classic
> symptom of, either, the tax dodger on the run from the Treasury after a
> bad receipt, or some kind of embittered idiot who has been run out of
> the country by a shadowy force she thinks is "stalking" her (the Frank
> Bruno syndrome). A "socialist", for example. Or perhaps she was mugged
> on the Tube and thought it was the KGB posing as local youths.

There's a third possibility; a foreigner who obsesses about a country
she visits only rarely, if at all (cf all those people in East Anglia
who drive around in trucks, listening to C&W and flying the Confederate
flag.

> > > It could be worse- she could be Boedicia.
> >
> > Hmm ... have abelard and Bo ever been seen together?
>

> I'm sure they're sitting at the back of a cinema in Rennes right
> now, tongues locked together.

Do you mind? I've just eaten!

abelard

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Sep 13, 2005, 8:55:37 AM9/13/05
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On 13 Sep 2005 05:37:10 -0700, j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

typed:

>Mickey Gee wrote:

>> I'm sure they're sitting at the back of a cinema in Rennes right
>> now, tongues locked together.
>
>Do you mind? I've just eaten!

who?

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j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

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Sep 13, 2005, 9:04:08 AM9/13/05
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abelard wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2005 05:37:10 -0700, j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk
>
> typed:
>
> >Mickey Gee wrote:
>
> >> I'm sure they're sitting at the back of a cinema in Rennes right
> >> now, tongues locked together.
> >
> >Do you mind? I've just eaten!
>
> who?

The name of the pig whose cooked flesh I've just consumed is unknown to
me. However, the apple's name was 'Granny Smith'.

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j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

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Sep 13, 2005, 9:09:04 AM9/13/05
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Mickey Gee wrote:
> Did you buy it from the socialist Morrisons?

No, the capitalist Sainsburys.

Robert Henderson

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Sep 13, 2005, 9:01:04 AM9/13/05
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In message <1126614219....@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk writes

>Mickey Gee wrote:
>> Since when has preferring the Stones to the Beatles been an indication
>> of Frenchness?
>
>The French have always preferred the Stones, probably because they (the
>French) have crap taste in music. The Beatles were booed when they
>performed in Paris.
>
>> I thought she was rumbled years ago as being an Englishwoman living in
>> south-western France just to the south of the city of Nantes. There
>> used to be a link on her blog that said she was an "exile" (and a
>> poster who claimed to know her once posted on alt.politics.british that
>> she was actually originally from Woking), but this has been taken down.
>
>abelard is definitely not English. She knows nothing about the country
>at all.
>
What do you expect? "She" is a valve computer of 1947 vintage. RH

>> It could be worse- she could be Boedicia.
>
>Hmm ... have abelard and Bo ever been seen together?
>

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Robert Henderson

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Sep 13, 2005, 9:04:42 AM9/13/05
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In message <1126611420.4...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk writes

>Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
>position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
>
>Here are the clues; abelard:
>
>1) Prefers the Stones to the Beatles
>

As opposed to Pink Floyd, the choice of Marvin. RH

>2) Obsesses about shoes
>
>3) Worships 'Princess' Diana
>

Clear example of GIGO. RH

>4) Does not understand Britain or the British
>

Unsurprising with a very small memory and computational capacity. RH

>5) Believes that John Major was a 'socialist'
>

Obviously "her" programmer having a joke.

All in all quite compatible with the fact that "she" is a 1947 vintage
valve computer. RH

>Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)
>

--

Blue

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j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk wrote:
>
> Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
> position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
>
> Here are the clues; abelard:

From the horses mouth:

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hummingbird

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On 13 Sep 2005 04:37:00 -0700, j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk
mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

Have you worked out what religion/race he is yet?

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<j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:1126611420.4...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Total guesswork. It took me about two minutes to find Abelards gender,
name and address years ago. I will never tell.


Stephen Glynn

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Sep 13, 2005, 1:26:34 PM9/13/05
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It only took me a couple of minutes to find a picture of abelard

http://www.europuppet.org/images/Abelardo%20Pupazzo%20fontana-con_255_3.jpg

Steve

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Blue <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk wrote:


> * Here a golden yakis what a Yak looks like - well, it doesn't really


> and here is a picture of one of the yaks

I liked this bit. I didn't understand it, but I liked it.


h

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"Stephen Glynn" <stephe...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:eZDVe.333$1A....@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...

> Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>> <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1126611420.4...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
>>>position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
>>>
>>>Here are the clues; abelard:
>>>
>>>1) Prefers the Stones to the Beatles
>>>
>>>2) Obsesses about shoes
>>>
>>>3) Worships 'Princess' Diana
>>>
>>>4) Does not understand Britain or the British
>>>
>>>5) Believes that John Major was a 'socialist'
>>>
>>>Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)
>>
>>
>> Total guesswork. It took me about two minutes to find Abelards gender,
>> name and address years ago. I will never tell.
>
> It only took me a couple of minutes to find a picture of abelard
>
> http://www.europuppet.org/images/Abelardo%20Pupazzo%20fontana-con_255_3.jpg
>

Yes I see but what's that sat upon it?


Blue

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Sep 13, 2005, 6:42:02 PM9/13/05
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I noticed this:

"identified the prime problem as poorly structured language."

Esperanto has already been invented. We speak English, it's alive.

"ended up applying empirics to language...."

Seems at odds with:
"all things are approximate as far as humans are concerned".

"now attempting to get others in a backward (pre scientific)
milieu to understandreturn to index"

abelard, seeks followers!

George Saden

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Sep 13, 2005, 7:33:45 PM9/13/05
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Blue wrote:
> DVH wrote:
>
>>Blue <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>news:4326E23E...@ntlworld.com...
>>
>>>j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>> * Here a golden yakis what a Yak looks like - well, it doesn't really
>>> and here is a picture of one of the yaks
>>
>>I liked this bit. I didn't understand it, but I liked it.
>
>
> I noticed this:
>
> "identified the prime problem as poorly structured language."


Oh the irony.

George Saden

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Sep 13, 2005, 7:35:48 PM9/13/05
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Religion, Syberian yak turd worshiper.
Race, martian spastic shunned from his home world and bannished to earth.


George Saden

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Sep 13, 2005, 7:36:14 PM9/13/05
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I'll pay you a hundred quid.

George Saden

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Sep 13, 2005, 7:37:04 PM9/13/05
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Stephen Glynn wrote:
> Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>
>> <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1126611420.4...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
>>> position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
>>>
>>> Here are the clues; abelard:
>>>
>>> 1) Prefers the Stones to the Beatles
>>>
>>> 2) Obsesses about shoes
>>>
>>> 3) Worships 'Princess' Diana
>>>
>>> 4) Does not understand Britain or the British
>>>
>>> 5) Believes that John Major was a 'socialist'
>>>
>>> Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)
>>
>>
>>
>> Total guesswork. It took me about two minutes to find Abelards
>> gender, name and address years ago. I will never tell.
>>
>
> It only took me a couple of minutes to find a picture of abelard
>
> http://www.europuppet.org/images/Abelardo%20Pupazzo%20fontana-con_255_3.jpg


That's one of his more photogenic moments.

Blue

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Sep 14, 2005, 1:12:40 AM9/14/05
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Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>
>
> Total guesswork. It took me about two minutes to find Abelards gender,
> name and address years ago. I will never tell.


R Abela in Les Landes France.

abe...@abelard.org
http://www.addresses.com/email.php


"Abela" doesn't sound English.

Birminghamabad Bob

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"George Saden" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:4327626E...@privacy.net...

>
>
> Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>> <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1126611420.4...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>

>> Total guesswork. It took me about two minutes to find Abelards gender,

>> name and address years ago. I will never tell.
>
>
> I'll pay you a hundred quid.

Ok.


joeh

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hummingbird wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2005 04:37:00 -0700, j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk
> mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...
>
> >Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
> >position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
> >Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)
>
> Have you worked out what religion/race he is yet?

Religion: lapsed Roman Catholic, like everyone else
Race: whatever race the French are.

Stephen Glynn

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Sep 14, 2005, 4:42:57 AM9/14/05
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No, but if you say 'Abela, R' (as you might say 'Glynn, S' when reading
out a list) it does sound remarkably like the way a Frenchman would
pronounce 'abelard'.

joeh

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Sep 14, 2005, 4:47:51 AM9/14/05
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Blue wrote:
> j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
> > position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
> >
> > Here are the clues; abelard:
>
> From the horses mouth:
>
> mission statement
> to advance rational education... this site is designed to provide the tools for the spread of sanity in education and culture.
>
> what is this abelard thing anyway?
> abelard is thought to live in a ger on the steppes of outer mongolia, surrounded by an indeterminate number of yaks, husbands and wives... and vast hordes of children preparing for the cultural
> conquest of the world... abelard is known to have long conversations with the good fairy. it is rumoured that abelard arrived on a cultural troubleshooting mission to this planet from a star system
> approximately 40 light years away: this prior to the earth being offered probationary membership of The Galactic Anarchy (some call it The Culture).
>
> as abelard is from an advanced culture, this entity has to communcate in rather simple language in order to be understood by the savages... consequently there are various rumours...
>
> one is that The Culture have forgotten all about this attaché, who often gets homesick and pissed off with living in such a primitive backwater.

<mucho snippo>

See what I mean? A typical French attempt at humour. There are no
French comedians, with the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle.

hummingbird

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On 14 Sep 2005 01:02:00 -0700, "joeh" <j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk>

mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

>hummingbird wrote:
>> On 13 Sep 2005 04:37:00 -0700, j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk
>> mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...
>>
>> >Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
>> >position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
>> >Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)
>>
>> Have you worked out what religion/race he is yet?
>
>Religion: lapsed Roman Catholic, like everyone else
>Race: whatever race the French are.

I don't think abelard is a lapsed RC or French.

abelard

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Sep 14, 2005, 11:46:13 AM9/14/05
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On 13 Sep 2005 04:37:00 -0700, j.hut...@jisc.ac.uk

typed:

>Having exclusively revealed abelard's gender last year, I am now in a
>position to announce abelard's nationality to a wondering world.
>

>Here are the clues; abelard:
>

>1) Prefers the Stones to the Beatles
>
>2) Obsesses about shoes
>
>3) Worships 'Princess' Diana
>
>4) Does not understand Britain or the British
>
>5) Believes that John Major was a 'socialist'
>

>Thus we can see that she is French! (Or possibly Belgian)

c'mon chapsetc....i've just returned from attending the
yaks on the high plateau....
then saw 27 posts....fun i thought.....bah....

you can do better than this except the dorks of course
who are doing well maintaining their usual standards...
and the socialists who have no standards....without
scythes and crescents on them....

and there's blue doing me outa at least 10 more document calls
by stealing all my valuable equipment

now let's go see what the internationale have been at today.....

regards for those who deserve it and pseudo-pity for those
as don't....

Blue

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Sep 14, 2005, 2:12:01 PM9/14/05
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Stephen Glynn wrote:

>
> Blue wrote:
> > R Abela in Les Landes France.
> >
> > abe...@abelard.org
> > http://www.addresses.com/email.php
> >
> >
> > "Abela" doesn't sound English.
>
> No, but if you say 'Abela, R' (as you might say 'Glynn, S' when reading
> out a list) it does sound remarkably like the way a Frenchman would
> pronounce 'abelard'.

Ok, Glynis??
---
Italian Baby Names
Abela
English translation/equivalent: Abela

Origin: Biblical name of Adam and Eve's second son,
killed by his envious brother Cain. Derived from
the Hebrew Hebel or Habel, "breath of life."

Name Day/Onomastico: August 5—in memory of St. Abel,
bishop of Reims (died 751).

Related Name/Other Italian Forms: feminine form of Abele
http://italian.about.com/library/name/blname_abela.htm

Italian R? names
http://italian.about.com/library/name/blnameindexr.htm

Birminghamabad Bob

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Sep 14, 2005, 2:32:12 PM9/14/05
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"Blue" <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Stephen Glynn wrote:
>>
>> Blue wrote:
>> > R Abela in Les Landes France.
>> >
>> > abe...@abelard.org
>> > http://www.addresses.com/email.php
>> >
>> >
>> > "Abela" doesn't sound English.
>>
>> No, but if you say 'Abela, R' (as you might say 'Glynn, S' when reading
>> out a list) it does sound remarkably like the way a Frenchman would
>> pronounce 'abelard'.
>
> Ok, Glynis??
> ---
> Italian Baby Names
> Abela
> English translation/equivalent: Abela
>
> Origin: Biblical name of Adam and Eve's second son,
> killed by his envious brother Cain. Derived from
> the Hebrew Hebel or Habel, "breath of life."
>
> Name Day/Onomastico: August 5-in memory of St. Abel,

> bishop of Reims (died 751).
>
> Related Name/Other Italian Forms: feminine form of Abele
> http://italian.about.com/library/name/blname_abela.htm
>
> Italian R? names
> http://italian.about.com/library/name/blnameindexr.htm

You're barking up the wrong tree. Come to think of it, you're barking.


Blue

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Sep 14, 2005, 5:14:29 PM9/14/05
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Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>
> "Blue" <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:432867B1...@ntlworld.com...
>
> You're barking up the wrong tree. Come to think of it, you're barking.

There's always one cunt who turns up to spoil the fun,
isn't there cunt.

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Blue

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Sep 14, 2005, 6:04:23 PM9/14/05
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R Abela wrote:
>
>
> and there's blue doing me outa at least 10 more document calls
> by stealing all my valuable equipment

Take it like a man, err.

abelard

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Sep 14, 2005, 6:28:19 PM9/14/05
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:04:23 GMT, Blue <bl...@ntlworld.com>

typed:

>R Abela wrote:

i take it as flattery....

regards...

Birminghamabad Bob

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"Blue" <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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See what I mean.


Blue

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Sep 15, 2005, 6:24:26 AM9/15/05
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Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>
> "Blue" <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:432891AB...@ntlworld.com...
> > Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
> >>
> >> "Blue" <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> >> news:432867B1...@ntlworld.com...
> >>
> >> You're barking up the wrong tree. Come to think of it, you're barking.
> >
> > There's always one cunt who turns up to spoil the fun,
> > isn't there cunt.
>
> See what I mean.

Bhawawawawa

Birminghamabad Bob

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"Blue" <bl...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Oh god he's blubbering now !


Blue

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Sep 15, 2005, 11:13:48 AM9/15/05
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Birminghamabad Bob wrote:
>
> "Blue"
> >> >> You're barking up the wrong tree. Come to think of it, you're
> >> >> barking.
> >> >
> >> > There's always one cunt who turns up to spoil the fun,
> >> > isn't there cunt.
> >>
> >> See what I mean.
> >
> > Bhawawawawa
>
> Oh god he's blubbering now !

You freaking kids are getting on my tits.

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