So it isn't a triple-dark-fudge brownie with a scoop of vanilla bean
icecream on top, but "Bob (this one)" > did write
something interesting in :


> Marek Chau wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:14:58 -0500, "Bob (this one)"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Steve Calvin wrote:
>>>
>>>>Bob (this one) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Steve Calvin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Bob (this one) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'm abjectly apologetic that I didn't reply in the precise
>>>>>>>fashions you'd have liked me to. Perhaps we can create some
>>>>>>>templates for correct reaction to your posts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yeah, the template would be to *quit freekin' cross-posting*!!
>>>>>>Is that clear and quickly enough to the point for your ass?
>>>>>
>>>>><LOL> Here. Sit down. Breathe in... breathe out... breathe
>>>>>in... breathe out...
>>>>>
>>>>>When you were in the school safety patrol, did you wear one of
>>>>>those cool white belts that went around your waist and over
>>>>>your shoulder. I thought they were cool. Big badge on it...
>>>>>
>>>>>No, seriously...
>>>>>
>>>>>Bob
>>>>>
>>>>Does the acronym F.O.A.D. ring any bells with you?
>>>
>>>Of course, it does. It means **** off and die. Perhaps a bit
>>>strong for your response to my posting what you don't like. I
>>>mean it is your own personal usenet, and all...
>>>
>>>It's good you finally learned how to use a killfile. Save your
>>>being *forced* to read everything online.
>>>
>>>>Welcome to the elite few (2 to be exact) existing entries in my
>>>>killfile.
>>>
>>><LOL> I love it when people announce that gesture. It reads like
>>>a flounce out of the room, curls tossing and purposeful strides
>>>echoing from the austere marble walls. Get a life, Steve.
>>
>>>Oh, wait. Steve won't see this.
>>>
>>>No, seriously...
>>>
>>>Pastorio
>>
>> You're correct, one should never complain about irrelevant,
>> frivolous crossposting when it is done for such a noble reason.
>> The Netiquette FAQs be damned.
>
> Ah, "mirroring." Crossposting to make the point that crossposting
> is bad. Like screwing for virginity. Well done.

I don't think "mc" would really like to drag misc.writing into his or
her presumably pristine newsfroup. Whatever his or her presumably
pristine newsfroup might be.


>
> Like that parent in the mall smacking a child, "I've <smack> told
> you a hundred <smack> times <smack> not to hit <smack> your
> sister. <smack> Hitting is <smack> bad....."
>
> Actually, I didn't initiate the crossposting. Except where I did.
> And in that case, I was just following orders from higher-ups.

You ever work at Abu Ghraib?


>
>> I'm certain you would never complain about that nor announce
>> killfiling anyone.
>
> <LOL> You new around here...? Or here...? Or here...?

We could lecture. Shall we lecture? We love to lecture, here in
misc.writing.

Okay. *I* love to lecture. But other peeps love to lecture, too,
even though they deny it ...




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gekko

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