From: Don Stockbauer on 9 Nov 2009 23:40 On Nov 9, 5:54 pm, George Hammond <Nowhe...(a)notspam.net> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:57:53 -0700, Bob Casanova > > > > <nos...(a)buzz.off> wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:49:49 -0500, the following appeared in > >sci.skeptic, posted by "Otto Bahn" <e...(a)eio.com>: > > >>"Nicko" <nervous.n...(a)gmail.com> wrote > > >>> WASHINGTON D.C. > >>> I braked at the stoplight and a sedan skidded to a halt > >>> on my right. > > >><You never told us that you had telekinetic powers. That is just, > >><like, sooo cool! > > >I think he's going for a Bulwer-Lytton award: > > >http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ > > >It would have been easier if he'd managed to combine his > >screed into one sentence, like this one: > > >"It came to him in a cocaine rush as he took the Langley > >exit that if Aldrich had told Filipov about Hancock only > >Tulfengian could have known that the photograph which Wagner > >had shown to Maximov on the jolting S-bahn was not the > >photograph of Kessler that Bradford had found at the dark, > >sinister house in the Schillerstrasse the day that Straub > >told Percival that the man on the bridge had not been > >Aksakov but Paustovsky, which meant that is was not Kleist > >but Kruger that Cherensky had met in the bleak, wintry > >Grunewald and that, therefore, only Frau Epp could have > >known that Muller had followed Droysen to the steamy, > >aromatic cafe in the Beethovenstrasse where he told Buerger > >that Todorov had known since the Liebermann affair that > >McIntyre had not met Stoltz at the Goerlitzer Bahnhof but > >instead had met Sommer at the cavernous Anhalter Bahnhof." > >(Winner, Spy Fiction category, 1984) > > [Hammond] > There are more interesting answer-bot programs littering the > Internet. That one apparently uses a German dictionary. > Simple minded dimwit! > ======================================== > GEORGE HAMMOND'S PROOF OF GOD WEBSITE But you missed the REAL proof of God: "God and the Universe are identical memes."
From: Bryce Utting on 10 Nov 2009 03:18 Otto Bahn <ei(a)eio.com> wrote: > It was a dark and stormy night. The dark part is redundant; had > the lonesome moon even been out, it would have been obscured by > the ephemeral clouds. Suddenly, three men entered a cave. One > said, "Otto, tell us a story." The story began...It was a stormy > night, and three men entered a cave. One said, "Cut it out, Matt!" > And he did. IFYPFY. butting -- http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~butting If this is UI for anyone - even TimC - I shall be extremely alarmed. -- Dan Birchall
From: George Hammond on 10 Nov 2009 03:57 On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:18:36 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting <butting(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote: >Otto Bahn <ei(a)eio.com> wrote: >> It was a dark and stormy night. The dark part is redundant; had >> the lonesome moon even been out, it would have been obscured by >> the ephemeral clouds. Suddenly, three men entered a cave. One >> said, "Otto, tell us a story." The story began...It was a stormy >> night, and three men entered a cave. One said, "Cut it out, Matt!" >> And he did. > >IFYPFY. > > >butting > > [Hammond] The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas The road was a ribbon of moonlight across the purple moor When Hammond saw the castle walls grey as a piece of slate He nailed his thesis in peer review form upon the city gate And a 1000 years to the proof of God became his final fate ======================================== GEORGE HAMMOND'S PROOF OF GOD WEBSITE Primary site http://webspace.webring.com/people/eg/george_hammond Mirror site http://proof-of-god.freewebsitehosting.com HAMMOND FOLK SONG by Casey Bennetto http://interrobang.jwgh.org/songs/hammond.mp3 =======================================
From: Bryce Utting on 10 Nov 2009 04:13 George Hammond <Nowhere1(a)notspam.net> wrote: >>> The story began...It was a stormy >>> night, and three men entered a cave. One said, "Cut it out, Matt!" >>> And he did. >> >>IFYPFY. >> > > [Hammond] > The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees > The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas > The road was a ribbon of moonlight across the purple moor > When Hammond saw the castle walls grey as a piece of slate > He nailed his thesis in peer review form upon the city gate > And a 1000 years to the proof of God became his final fate cut it *out*, Matt! butting -- http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~butting 'Tis the fell work of the international floating-head-missile-zombie- erupting-tentacle cartel. -- John D Salt
From: Otto Bahn on 10 Nov 2009 12:35
"George Hammond" <Nowhere1(a)notspam.net> wrote .. > Answering you is a waste of time except that I am using > voice dictation and don't have to lift a finger to do so. > It is sad and pathetic but somehow reassuring to be > absolutely confident and have proof positive that you are an > ABSOLUTE FOOL. Voice dictation has an all-caps mode? ELEVENTY! --oTTo-- |