From: Phat Bytestard on
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:05:15 -0500, John Fields
<jfields(a)austininstruments.com> Gave us:

>On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:28:16 +0100, Eeyore
><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote:
>>
>>> Phat Bytestard wrote:
>>> > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:17:36 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
>>> > <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us:
>>> >
>>> > >Eeyore wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> > Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>> > >> > > Jim Thompson wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Obviously too many head shots.
>>>
>>> This is field-hockey, not ice-hockey, as I've already mentioned
>>
>>I've had some balls fly pretty damn close to my head though !
>
>---
>You're a trapeze artist then, are you?


Balls? We don' need no stinkin' balls!
From: Phat Bytestard on
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:19:45 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us:

>On 'our' behalf ?

You an uneducated idiot.
From: Phat Bytestard on
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:48:55 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us:

>Usenet is an abberation, as it removes the moderating influence of
>personal contact, body language, intonation, and civility in general.
>And it selectively attracts jerks.

I fart in your general directions... :-]
From: Phat Bytestard on
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:42:59 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us:

>This rah-rah nationalism is getting crazy. It's exactly the emotion
>that starts wars.


One of...
From: Bill Sloman on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> schreef in
bericht news:44D222B8.DD68A7C9(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com...
>
>
> Ken Smith wrote:
>
>> The US only sells the previous generation of hardware not the latest.
>> The
>> US airforce spends the money for development of the new fighters not the
>> other countries they get sold to.
>
> Well..... Britain's getting some JSFs too.

And they are paying for, and carrying out, part of the development, along
with the Dutch and few other countries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II

What did you think the "Joint" in the Joint Strike Fighter meant? Weed?

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen