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From: Wes Groleau on 20 Jun 2010 00:45 On 06-19-2010 21:31, dorayme wrote: > The bet was that the sun would not come up in the morning as > usual and I would lose full stop and fair dinkum and no sweat > mate. One must have a broad understanding of these things when > betting on a handshake with an Australian. Oh, so even though it did come up, it wasn't “as usual” -- Wes Groleau Carlos Santana's Solution to Drug and Education Problems http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1539
From: dorayme on 20 Jun 2010 06:30 In article <hvk6do$2b6$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 06-19-2010 21:31, dorayme wrote: > > The bet was that the sun would not come up in the morning as > > usual and I would lose full stop and fair dinkum and no sweat > > mate. One must have a broad understanding of these things when > > betting on a handshake with an Australian. > > Oh, so even though it did come up, it wasn't “as usual” It did not come up in the terms of the bet. Please don't stop, whatever would we talk about if you did? -- dorayme
From: bartbrn on 20 Jun 2010 12:08
On Jun 17, 10:32 pm, dorayme <dora...(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > In article > <2d0beb07-898f-4d35-9984-3ce0bcdc9...(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.co > That is a good cue to not read such a person, why not take the > opportunity. Do you really suppose you will have the slightest > effect on someone like JW? Nope. > It was a bit of an inelegant mouthful wasn't it? More enigmatic than inelegant. > Usenet is full of cowardly people who get together and relentlessly hunt the more > inexperienced or unwell or weak for reasons more to do with their > own needs to hurt others than any motivation of a higher calibre. Can't argue with that -- like pack-wolves who trail herds of elk, antelope, whatever, waiting for the weak or injured ones to show their vulnerability. > Your argument that policing without killfiling prevents spammers > is what? You got me there -- not knowing what tools are available to the moderator of a forum, or volunteers in an UN-moderated forum, I don't know how one deals, en masse, with spammers. Individual killfiles look, to my untrained mind, like the only answer there. > > So there's the moral dilemma: ... The beauty of the ellipsis -- it indicates greater erudition which is too convoluted and tiresome to take the trouble to type out, when it REALLY often means the writer has run out of ideas. I fall into the latter group! |