OK, another month has gone by, and the tradition continues. Terry has stopped the macho posturing and futile expressions of how he's express his maleness towards me, but retains enough puppydog devotion to continue the non-conversation.
Small things amuse small minds. I'm enjoying myself. -- apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.
> You remain Terry's total bitch. It's really quite impressive.
He can make the assertion. The kind of guys who make the raving claims of their own masculinity usually come off pretty short. -- apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.
In article <hd1nje$ej...@news.eternal-september.org>, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> writes:
>Greg Goss wrote: >> "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote: >>> Greg Goss wrote: >>>> OK, another month has gone by, and >>> You remain Terry's total bitch. It's really quite impressive.
>> He can make the assertion.
> You have come here and started playing HIS game. He makes all the >rules. He's been doing this since long before you ever arrived.
> Terry Austin: The only way to win... is not to play. You keep playing, >you keep losing.
It's a slight variant of the old midway huckster's pitch: "Play 'til you win!"
-- Michael F. Stemper #include <Standard_Disclaimer> Twenty-four hours in a day; twenty-four beers in a case. Coincidence?
>He's in an impossible situation, though. I swore, publicly, that he'd >get the last post. He *can't* stop now, or *ever*.
Well... Usenet COULD break, irretrievably, at JUST the right time, after just the right amounts of propagation.
But yeah, that's not gonna happen.
Dave "short of nuclear WAR of course" DeLaney -- \/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
mstem...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) wrote: >It's a slight variant of the old midway huckster's pitch: "Play >'til you win!"
Ah, but the midway guy wants you to put money down for each play. He's the big name in this group; I'm the nobody. But we're both playing evenly. Now if the midway guy puts down exactly as much money and effort for each play that I do, the metaphor might match.
I am happy with what I get here. Terry is happy with what he gets here. The rest of the group knows enough about killfiles not to be annoyed. Everyone wins.
So why should I quit playing if everyone wins? -- apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.
> >It's a slight variant of the old midway huckster's pitch: "Play > >'til you win!"
> Ah, but the midway guy wants you to put money down for each play. > He's the big name in this group; I'm the nobody. But we're both > playing evenly. Now if the midway guy puts down exactly as much money > and effort for each play that I do, the metaphor might match.
> I am happy with what I get here. Terry is happy with what he gets > here. The rest of the group knows enough about killfiles not to be > annoyed. Everyone wins.
> So why should I quit playing if everyone wins?
Not completely relevant to your post, but I'm too lazy to find a better one.
If either of you haven't automated this thing by now, you're a complete idiot.
That is all.
-- Mike Ash Radio Free Earth Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon
>d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote in >> Dave "short of nuclear WAR of course" DeLaney
>Er, wasn't the interwebs designed specifically to survive that?
And when was the last time something this complex worked as designed?
Dave "I'm betting they didn't take net non-neutrality into account" DeLaney -- \/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
>> >It's a slight variant of the old midway huckster's pitch: "Play >> >'til you win!"
>> Ah, but the midway guy wants you to put money down for each play. >> He's the big name in this group; I'm the nobody. But we're both >> playing evenly. Now if the midway guy puts down exactly as much money >> and effort for each play that I do, the metaphor might match.
>> I am happy with what I get here. Terry is happy with what he gets >> here. The rest of the group knows enough about killfiles not to be >> annoyed. Everyone wins.
>> So why should I quit playing if everyone wins?
>Not completely relevant to your post, but I'm too lazy to find a better >one.
>If either of you haven't automated this thing by now, you're a complete >idiot.
>That is all.
I assume Terry's is automated. That's why I post a monthly "real" comment to see if he's still here. Mine takes me far too little effort to worry about automating it. -- apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.
> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <tausti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote in >>> Dave "short of nuclear WAR of course" DeLaney
>>Er, wasn't the interwebs designed specifically to survive that?
> And when was the last time something this complex worked as > designed?
> Dave "I'm betting they didn't take net non-neutrality into > account" DeLaney
Very true, but one must also take in to account the cockroach-like nature of the internet, able to survive even the most determined attempts to exterminate it. The Streissand Effect, writ large, so to speak.
-- Terry Austin
Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole. - David Bilek
Yeah, I had Terry confused with Hannibal Lecter. - Mike Schilling
which I've read, but my reply is nothing I haven't said before ... so this reply returns to a placemarker. -- apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.
> > Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <tausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote in > >>> Dave "short of nuclear WAR of course" DeLaney
> >>Er, wasn't the interwebs designed specifically to survive that?
> > And when was the last time something this complex worked as > > designed?
> > Dave "I'm betting they didn't take net non-neutrality into > > account" DeLaney
> Very true, but one must also take in to account the cockroach-like > nature of the internet, able to survive even the most determined > attempts to exterminate it. The Streissand Effect, writ large, so to > speak.
But do cockroaches know how to use the internet? Which posters did yu have in mind as being candidates for being cockroaches?
-- Stephen Harker s.har...@adfa.edu.au PEMS UNSW@ADFA
>> > Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <tausti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote in >> >>> Dave "short of nuclear WAR of course" DeLaney
>> >>Er, wasn't the interwebs designed specifically to survive >> >>that?
>> > And when was the last time something this complex worked as >> > designed?
>> > Dave "I'm betting they didn't take net non-neutrality into >> > account" DeLaney
>> Very true, but one must also take in to account the >> cockroach-like nature of the internet, able to survive even the >> most determined attempts to exterminate it. The Streissand >> Effect, writ large, so to speak.
> But do cockroaches know how to use the internet?
Let me translate your question: "Does the internet know how to use the internet?"
Does it *need* to?
> Which posters > did yu have in mind as being candidates for being cockroaches?
All of them. Including you and me.
Not that your question has *anything* to do with what I said, of course. Again, let me translate your question: "Which posters did yu have in mind as being candidates for being the internet?"
Does either question make *any* sense to you when phrased correctly?
-- Terry Austin
Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole. - David Bilek
Yeah, I had Terry confused with Hannibal Lecter. - Mike Schilling
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