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Pablo Guildenstern
To further enhance my enjoyment of uk.misc, I've added an entry to my
bozo bin.
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I'll run a diagnostic
Tony Davison
>
>
> First thing I see is a fascinating thread about Mr Corley.
> To further enhance my enjoyment of uk.misc, I've added an entry to my
> bozo bin.
What ho Dave, had a good holiday. IOW again?
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Pablo Guildenstern
> Pablo Guildenstern <divad...@retsehcnam.ca.ku> writes:
> >First thing I see is a fascinating thread about Mr Corley.
> >To further enhance my enjoyment of uk.misc, I've added an entry to my
> >bozo bin.
>
>
We have been for a pleasant sojourn on the lovely Isle Of Wight, where,
barring the introduction of supermarkets, it is still 1963. I not only
exposed my legs to sunlight, I SWAM in the SEA. And we had a large
quantity of fun at the garlic festival, and went Aaaaahhh at a baby
sloth. And some other stuff.
Pablo Guildenstern
> Pablo Guildenstern <divad...@retsehcnam.ca.ku> wrote:
>
> > First thing I see is a fascinating thread about Mr Corley.
> > To further enhance my enjoyment of uk.misc, I've added an entry to my
> > bozo bin.
>
>
>
You should be so lucky
[lucky lucky lucky...]
Pablo Guildenstern
>
> What ho Dave, had a good holiday. IOW again?
>
Turned Heather on to Manns Original.
My work there is done.
Sam Nelson
says...
> S'not as good as it used to bem you know.
Turning Portuguese I think he's turning Portuguese I really think
SO...
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SAm.
Pablo Guildenstern
> Pablo Guildenstern <divad...@retsehcnam.ca.ku> writes:
> >>
> >We have been for a pleasant sojourn on the lovely Isle Of Wight, where,
> >barring the introduction of supermarkets, it is still 1963. I not only
> >exposed my legs to sunlight, I SWAM in the SEA. And we had a large
> >quantity of fun at the garlic festival,
>
So what's stopping you?
You drive to Southampton or Portsmouth or thingy, get a ferry, drive to
the festival (or to a place-to-stay and then to the fest), eat stuff
loaded with garlic, drink beer with garlic in it, watch any of the shows
you fancy (circus, magician, various music, etc), wander round the usual
county fair stylee stands (I bought some jigsaw blades), go to wherever
you're staying, go home when sated.
There's a couple of breweries native to the IoW that might as well have
their wares sampled, and all the cider that comes out of Godshill. They
have telephones and supermarkets now, so you can actually survive there.
Having said that, we'll probably take our holiday in Cornwall or Eire
next year. Though if we can afford it and schedule it, maybe we'll do
both - we can stay with friends on the island so it can be cheap and
easy for us.
Tony Davison
>
>
> Derek <derek...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>> > We have been for a pleasant sojourn on the lovely Isle Of Wight, where,
>> > barring the introduction of supermarkets, it is still 1963. I not only
>> > exposed my legs to sunlight, I SWAM in the SEA. And we had a large
>> > quantity of fun at the garlic festival, and went Aaaaahhh at a baby
>> > sloth. And some other stuff.
>>
>> Just been there, came back on the day of the GF tho. Was surprised that
>> the IOW is only *this* big. Nice sea, nice sand, screamed like a girl on
>> the chairlift at the Needles, damn.
>
> Hot dog, there's a *chairlift* at the Needles now?
> That'll be my next awayday then.
When did you last go to the IOW. Its been there donkeys years.
Probably what makes people scream when they use it and notice the signs of
Vectisian maintenance,
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Pablo Guildenstern
> Pablo Guildenstern <divad...@retsehcnam.ca.ku> wrote:
>
> > barring the introduction of supermarkets, it is still 1963. I not only
> > exposed my legs to sunlight, I SWAM in the SEA. And we had a large
> > quantity of fun at the garlic festival, and went Aaaaahhh at a baby
> > sloth. And some other stuff.
>
> the IOW is only *this* big. Nice sea, nice sand, screamed like a girl on
> the chairlift at the Needles, damn.
I made L use that chairlift a couple of years ago as I didn't want her
struggling all the way up the steps with a womb full of nearly-baked
child. She hated it and regularly tells me so.
Shereen
I thought there was a not-so-faint whiff of garlic in the air.
Shereen
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Shereen
> T'was ever thus. I lived within a few hundred yards of Roman Verulamium for
> 8 years. Never went there.
Understandable. It's just Roman leftovers after all. What you really
want to visit is some nice Neolithic stuff.
Sam Nelson
says...
> Andrew Cox <water...@spamcop.net> writes:
>
> > On 28 Aug 2005 16:51:41 GMT, Huge wrote:
> >
> > > Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk> writes:
> > <snip>
> > >>Understandable. It's just Roman leftovers after all. What you really
> > >>want to visit is some nice Neolithic stuff.
> > >
> > > Simbel? That was good. Although only about 40 years old, mostly.
> >
> > The temple at Ggantia on Gozo is well worth a visit.
>
> Carnac, in Brittany, has to be one of the weirdest.
They're just standing stones, though. You want weird? Try Bru na
Boinne. Is the Goddess With The Skirt still around?
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SAm.
Sam Nelson
says...
> Sam Nelson <s...@ssrl.org.uk> writes:
>
> > In article <87hdd9n...@news2.kororaa.com>, aug...@kororaa.com
> > says...
> >
> >
> > They're just standing stones, though.
>
>
> > You want weird? Try Bru na Boinne.
>
Newgrange `passage tomb', for example.
> > Is the Goddess With The Skirt still around?
>
> Who?
Yknow, takes three syllables to say `champagne', sometimes wears a
skirt...
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SAm.
Linz
wrote:
Yes, but I prefer the leather trousers.
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The point of education is to correct ignorance. It cannot deal with stupidity.
(Mortimer Hebblethwaite, uk.misc)
Sam Nelson
> Orkney probably has better.
They're hiding it well, then. Maes Howe is spectacular for other
reasons, of course, being human habitation.
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SAm.
Sam Nelson
sp...@lindsayendell.org.uk says...
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:45:46 +0100, Sam Nelson <s...@ssrl.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <87hdd9n...@news2.kororaa.com>, aug...@kororaa.com
> >says...
> >> Andrew Cox <water...@spamcop.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > On 28 Aug 2005 16:51:41 GMT, Huge wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk> writes:
> >> > <snip>
> >> > >>Understandable. It's just Roman leftovers after all. What you really
> >> > >>want to visit is some nice Neolithic stuff.
> >> > >
> >> > > I've been to Stonehenge. Oh, hang on. That's Victorian. What about Abu
> >> > > Simbel? That was good. Although only about 40 years old, mostly.
> >> >
> >> > The temple at Ggantia on Gozo is well worth a visit.
> >>
> >> Carnac, in Brittany, has to be one of the weirdest.
> >
> >They're just standing stones, though. You want weird? Try Bru na
> >Boinne. Is the Goddess With The Skirt still around?
>
> Yes, but I prefer the leather trousers.
Strange as it may seem, I wasn't referring to you.
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SAm.
Linz
wrote:
>In article <ad34h192ept7l1obm...@4ax.com>,
>sp...@lindsayendell.org.uk says...
>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:45:46 +0100, Sam Nelson <s...@ssrl.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <87hdd9n...@news2.kororaa.com>, aug...@kororaa.com
>> >says...
>> >> Andrew Cox <water...@spamcop.net> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On 28 Aug 2005 16:51:41 GMT, Huge wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk> writes:
>> >> > <snip>
>> >> > >>Understandable. It's just Roman leftovers after all. What you really
>> >> > >>want to visit is some nice Neolithic stuff.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I've been to Stonehenge. Oh, hang on. That's Victorian. What about Abu
>> >> > > Simbel? That was good. Although only about 40 years old, mostly.
>> >> >
>> >> > The temple at Ggantia on Gozo is well worth a visit.
>> >>
>> >> Carnac, in Brittany, has to be one of the weirdest.
>> >
>> >They're just standing stones, though. You want weird? Try Bru na
>> >Boinne. Is the Goddess With The Skirt still around?
>>
>> Yes, but I prefer the leather trousers.
>
>Strange as it may seem, I wasn't referring to you.
NO, really?
Anyway, she didn't seem to be answering so I thought I'd step in.
Shereen
> I've been to Stonehenge. Oh, hang on. That's Victorian.
And newer. I thought the concrete was a nice touch. Aberdeenshire's good
for the less fiddled-with stuff.
> What about Abu Simbel? That was good. Although only about 40 years old,
> mostly.
I like them a little older than that.
Shereen
> They're just standing stones, though. You want weird? Try Bru na
> Boinne.
A great place, but definitely in the fiddled-with category. Still well
with a visit and a wander around further afield than Newgrange itself. I
went for a flying visit and ended up spending so much time there that I
was late for Sunday dinner at my folks'.
> Is the Goddess With The Skirt still around?
Not today. Today is housework day.
Shereen
> Anyway, she didn't seem to be answering so I thought I'd step in.
This whole 'no posting allowed from work' is a right PITA.
Shereen
>
> Newgrange `passage tomb', for example.
Did you know the single carved stone at the back of the tomb is in
direct line with the entrance and light box? (I've been reading Britain
BC these days and geeking a bit about stones.)
> Yknow, takes three syllables to say `champagne',
Sham-pain.
> sometimes wears a skirt...
That's very much weather-dependent.
Shereen
Different. No light box, less carving, but their own style too. Having
managed to drag TOH to Aberdeenshire, I'm now plotting to drag him to
the islands. I have my Julian Cope and my Aubrey Burl at the ready.
Shereen
>
D'you know They make you make an appointment now? Disgraceful!
Sam Nelson
REMO...@shereen.co.uk says...
> Sam Nelson wrote:
> > In article <878xyln...@news2.kororaa.com>, aug...@kororaa.com
> > says...
> > > Crved stones?
> >
> > Newgrange `passage tomb', for example.
>
> Did you know the single carved stone at the back of the tomb is in
> direct line with the entrance and light box? (I've been reading Britain
> BC these days and geeking a bit about stones.)
I read `Uriel's Machine'. Amiable-nutter stuff, still, but fun.
> > Yknow, takes three syllables to say `champagne',
>
> Sham-pain.
Sham-pay-ann?
> > sometimes wears a skirt...
>
> That's very much weather-dependent.
I can hardly wait for global warming.
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SAm.
Sam Nelson
REMO...@shereen.co.uk says...
> August West wrote:
> > Sam Nelson <s...@ssrl.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > Newgrange `passage tomb', for example.
> >
> > Orkney probably has better.
>
> Different. No light box, less carving, but their own style too. Having
> managed to drag TOH to Aberdeenshire, I'm now plotting to drag him to
> the islands. I have my Julian Cope and my Aubrey Burl at the ready.
Bryn Celli Ddu in Eckersland is closer.
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SAm.
Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.misc:
> Linz wrote:
>
>> Anyway, she didn't seem to be answering so I thought I'd step in.
>
> This whole 'no posting allowed from work' is a right PITA.
AOL, as well as the "work's own dialup services only" rule. Just what you
need when you're working away from home and the only net access you have
that you can do what you want with is a mobile phone. At least my (personal)
laptop is coming on Tuesday so I'll have that to play with.
mh.
--
From address is a blackhole. Reply-to address is valid.
"People are animals too."
Sam Nelson
REMO...@shereen.co.uk says...
> Huge wrote:
> > Sam Nelson <s...@ssrl.org.uk> writes:
> > >Newgrange `passage tomb', for example.
> >
> > Been there, too.
>
> D'you know They make you make an appointment now? Disgraceful!
I just want to be there the next time you can read, right down at the
back, by the light of Venus.
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SAm.
Shereen
> I read `Uriel's Machine'. Amiable-nutter stuff, still, but fun.
Let me loose in a secondhand bookshop and I just can't resist the
amiable-nutter stuff. The head of Jesus is buried in Rosslyn Chapel?
I'll risk 50 pence on that.
> > Sham-pain.
>
> Sham-pay-ann?
Quite possibly - I've been told there's more than a touch of the culchie
in my accent.
> > That's very much weather-dependent.
>
> I can hardly wait for global warming.
The out-laws in N'awlins[1] disagree.
Shereen
[1] formerly of N'awlins, now temporarily of Houston.
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I'm trying to get home with the downies.
Shereen
> In article <MPG.1d840a0ff...@news.eclipse.co.uk>,
> REMO...@shereen.co.uk says...
>
> Bryn Celli Ddu in Eckersland is closer.
True. But the islands stuff has been on my 'must-see' list since the
days the career teacher was telling me I only liked ancient history
because of the Indiana Jones movies.
Shereen
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Shereen
> On that subject I have some exceedingly good news; I've been given a
> job, starting on Monday. From that day henceforth I shall be the sole
> BSFH[1] for a company. That means, I *set* the rules.
Happy new job, Alex.
Shereen
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Eric Jarvis
<MPG.1d8406137...@news.eclipse.co.uk>:
> Huge wrote:
>
> > I've been to Stonehenge. Oh, hang on. That's Victorian.
>
> And newer. I thought the concrete was a nice touch. Aberdeenshire's good
> for the less fiddled-with stuff.
>
> > What about Abu Simbel? That was good. Although only about 40 years old,
> > mostly.
>
> I like them a little older than that.
>
I'm 48 and haven't been fiddled with...at least for the last couple of
years, at least not often enough.
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eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
Sam Nelson
cust140.cos2.cable.ntl.com>, alex....@munted.org.uk says...
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Shereen wrote:
> > Linz wrote:
> >> Anyway, she didn't seem to be answering so I thought I'd step in.
> >
> > This whole 'no posting allowed from work' is a right PITA.
>
> job, starting on Monday. From that day henceforth I shall be the sole
> BSFH[1] for a company. That means, I *set* the rules.
Congratulations. But I think you might be disappointed with the
quality of megalomania available.
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SAm.
Shereen
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:20:29 +0100, Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk>
> wrote the following to uk.misc:
>
> AOL, as well as the "work's own dialup services only" rule.
No sympathy. _I've_ just had an XP build put on my machine and as a
result I've been forced to use OE to read the internal newsgroups.
I'm not sure I'll ever adjust.
Shereen
--
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Shereen
[Newgrange]
> I just want to be there the next time you can read, right down at the
> back, by the light of Venus.
I'm not sure, but I think there may be a draw for places in the chamber
at such times.
Shereen
--
I'm trying to get home with the downies.
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Shereen
> I'm 48 and haven't been fiddled with...at least for the last couple of
> years, at least not often enough.
No added concrete is always a good thing, IMO.
Shereen
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Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.misc:
> I try to push the envelope.
Step *away* from the stationery cupboard.
Tony Davison
>
>
> Alex Buell wrote:
>
>> On that subject I have some exceedingly good news; I've been given a
>> job, starting on Monday. From that day henceforth I shall be the sole
>> BSFH[1] for a company. That means, I *set* the rules.
>
> Happy new job, Alex.
>
What are you sysadmining then Alex?
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Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.misc:
> Marcus Houlden wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:20:29 +0100, Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk>
>> wrote the following to uk.misc:
>> > This whole 'no posting allowed from work' is a right PITA.
>>
>> AOL, as well as the "work's own dialup services only" rule.
>
> No sympathy. _I've_ just had an XP build put on my machine and as a
> result I've been forced to use OE to read the internal newsgroups.
I'm not sure my works laptop actually comes with OE; TBH I didn't bother
looking.
One thing I'm trying to work out is why they decided to block zip files
being sent by email from outside the company unless they are password
protected. Surely that's the wrong way round? I think I might ask on Monday.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bagleo.html
Tony Davison
> M$ shite. Still, it *does* pay the bills.
That an easy life innit.
Got a problem, reboot, if that doesn't work, fdisk/mbr format
C:\ re-install
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Big Tone
Befunge Sudoku
> Sam Nelson wrote:
>
> > Yknow, takes three syllables to say `champagne',
>
> Sham-pain.
Fibber. We all know you say Shempeai'n
And there's probably an aogh in the middle somewhere, too.
--
I'll run a diagnostic
Sam Nelson
pat...@dogslobber.demon.co.uk says...
>
> And Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk> was like:
>
> > Marcus Houlden wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:20:29 +0100, Shereen <REMO...@shereen.co.uk>
> > > wrote the following to uk.misc:
> > > > This whole 'no posting allowed from work' is a right PITA.
> > >
> > > AOL, as well as the "work's own dialup services only" rule.
> >
> > No sympathy. _I've_ just had an XP build put on my machine and as a
> > result I've been forced to use OE to read the internal newsgroups.
>
> our place, but the post was last November - and that was me, talking
> to myself. The last actual threads fizzled out towards the end of
> 2002.
There's a local group about my workplace which has existed for possibly
a dozen years that has never had a single article posted to it, as far
as I can tell.
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SAm.
Tony Davison
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>
>> Got a problem, reboot, if that doesn't work, fdisk/mbr format
>> C:\ re-install
>
> DELTREE /Y C:\*.*
You're a bit out of date old son, the psuedo dos that is in use nowadays
doesn't IIRC have deltree.
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Big Tone
Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.misc:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:26:52 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>>>
>>>> Got a problem, reboot, if that doesn't work, fdisk/mbr format
>>>> C:\ re-install
>>>
>>> DELTREE /Y C:\*.*
>>
>> You're a bit out of date old son, the psuedo dos that is in use nowadays
>> doesn't IIRC have deltree.
>
> Oh, I usually stick in a bootable Gentoo CD and just do a fdisk/mk2efs.
Not much good if it's an MS domain controller though.
Shereen
> People post to your internal newsgroups? Luxury!
Not as luxurious as the heady days in the early 90s. The cheese, sheds
and God threads would run for weeks. And as for the happy day when an
internal memo recommended we all back-up our bookmarks to an A3 sheet of
papers... <happy sigh>
> We've got those at our place, but the post was last November - and that
> was me, talking to myself. The last actual threads fizzled out towards
> the end of 2002.
We're a little over-run with modern apprentices, and I was a bit wary of
posting whilst I worked in HR, but it certainly helps with the
conference calls.
Shereen
> There's a local group about my workplace which has existed for possibly
> a dozen years that has never had a single article posted to it, as far
> as I can tell.
We had one of those. It was adopted as a 'break room' by a bunch of
people who wanted a rest from the grumpier sods in the main group. It's
like an internal version of anicecupofteaandasitdown.
Hubert Maynard
> ...the grumpier sods in the main group.
A highly undervalued bunch, IME.
Tony Davison
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:14:23 +0100, Alex Buell <alex....@munted.org.uk>
> wrote the following to uk.misc:
>
>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:26:52 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Got a problem, reboot, if that doesn't work, fdisk/mbr format
>>>>> C:\ re-install
>>>>
>>>> DELTREE /Y C:\*.*
>>>
>>> You're a bit out of date old son, the psuedo dos that is in use nowadays
>>> doesn't IIRC have deltree.
>>
>> Oh, I usually stick in a bootable Gentoo CD and just do a fdisk/mk2efs.
>
> Not much good if it's an MS domain controller though.
Certainly wouldn't do it much good, or not YMMV
Re-assure me please, these things (and server farms) don't have optical
bootable drives that naughty little boys can play with.
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Big Tone
Tony Davison
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:26:52 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>>>
>>>> Got a problem, reboot, if that doesn't work, fdisk/mbr format
>>>> C:\ re-install
>>>
>>> DELTREE /Y C:\*.*
>>
>> You're a bit out of date old son, the psuedo dos that is in use nowadays
>> doesn't IIRC have deltree.
>
> Oh, I usually stick in a bootable Gentoo CD and just do a fdisk/mk2efs.
Wait until you get your first pay cheque before you do that.
--
Big Tone
Hubert Maynard
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Tony Davison wrote:
>>> Happy new job, Alex.
>>>
>> What are you sysadmining then Alex?
>
> M$ shite. Still, it *does* pay the bills.
Dude! Hi 5!! Nice one.
Polly Esther Resin
<REMO...@shereen.co.uk> writes
>Sam Nelson wrote:
>> In article <878xyln...@news2.kororaa.com>, aug...@kororaa.com
>> says...
>> > Crved stones?
>>
>> Newgrange `passage tomb', for example.
>
>Did you know the single carved stone at the back of the tomb is in
>direct line with the entrance and light box? (I've been reading Britain
>BC these days and geeking a bit about stones.)
>
>> Yknow, takes three syllables to say `champagne',
>
>Sham-pain.
. . . for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends, Bacon, the
Colony Room Club, IIRC, great quote.
--
Shereen
But not by themselves.
Shereen
> In message <MPG.1d84095b8...@news.eclipse.co.uk>, Shereen
> <REMO...@shereen.co.uk> writes
>
> . . . for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends, Bacon, the
> Colony Room Club, IIRC, great quote.
I've heard it attributed to the great Tom Waits too.