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From: Eeyore on 4 Oct 2006 19:33 Daniel Mandic wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > > Thompson and Terrell are amongst the lowest forms of life posting > > here. JoeBloe beats them hands down though. > > > > Graham > > Ermm, is Terrell not an electronic guru? Guru ? You have to be kidding ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Oct 2006 19:36 John Larkin wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:16:58 +0100, Eeyore wrote: > >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > >> Keith wrote: > >> > > >> > Meanwhile, the stuffed donkey will watch the documentary about the > >> > wild west, "Blazing Saddles". > >> > >> He should pay close attention to the scene where someone punches out > >> the horse. > > > >Your American Love of Violence is once again nnoted. > > The history of Europe is the history of war. The earliest Greek > writings that survive are tales of war. Europe has been at war for > most of the last 3000 years, culminating in the "total war" of the > 20th century, killing tens of millions of non-combattants, surely the > largest-scale terrorism in world history. > > It was the American occupation, Pax Americana, that enforced 60 years > of peace in Europe for the first time in millennia. > > Spin that! The main reason for prolonged peace here is the Common market / EC / EU. The Cold War also kept most countries here allies too. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Oct 2006 19:39 John Larkin wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >John Larkin wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >Keith wrote: > >> > >> >> Meanwhile, the stuffed donkey will watch the documentary about the > >> >> wild west, "Blazing Saddles". > >> > > >> >I've never watched it. It's far too tedious. > >> > > >> >Graham > >> > >> Most of Mel Brooks' stuff is loaded with Hollywood insider jokes, > >> usually mocking studio fatheads. His "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" did a > >> nice job on Kevin Cosner. Like in Wodehouse's books, the plots are > >> just a framework to hold things up. > > > >I find the humour too juvenile for my taste. It's like finding farts funny > >and nothing else. > > More likely you find it juvenile because you don't get the twists; > some of Brooks' stuff is fairly subtle. But there are a lot of > Americanisms and Jewish humor and Black (as in African, not as in > noire) humor you may not get. > > What humor meets your standards? Not much actually. I find much of it pretty banale. I'm not sure you'd know the stuff either. Did you ever see Fawlty Towers ( John Cleese ) for example ? At least there's a decent chance of that. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Oct 2006 19:44 Jim Thompson wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >T Wake wrote: > >> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote > >> > Jim Thompson wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I should know shortly what low-life job Eric has at Battelle... my > >> >> guess is janitor ;-) > >> > > >> > Are you sure they would give him that much responsibility? > >> > >> It is interesting that instead of disagreeing with Eric's comments and > >> explaining why, the general response has been to criticise his imagined work > >> status. > >> > >> Nothing I have seen in this thread seems to relate to his job and he has not > >> claimed professional authority based on his employment so what, on Earth, > >> does his job matter? > >> > >> Unless this really is a pathetic attempt to "one up" on someone you think is > >> in a lower paid / less "exalted" job. If it is, you really should be ashamed > >> of yourselves. > > > >Thompson and Terrell are amongst the lowest forms of life posting here. JoeBloe > >beats them hands down though. > > > >Graham > > At least we're not impotent like you. > > ...Jim Thompson Is that the best you can muster ? Now be a good chap and go play biker will you ? Graham
From: Homer J Simpson on 4 Oct 2006 19:48
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:452439B6.E8B0188A(a)hotmail.com... > The Royal Air Force to be entirely accurate but yes, we were certainly far > from unready. In fact Britain's armaments industry had been working hard > in > the years preceding WW2 to make the planes ( and other stuff ) we knew we > were going to need. Yes. Sometimes it's good to give teenagers really big guns. |