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From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:01 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:22:07 -0500, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> Gave us: >On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:33:51 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" ><mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > >> Its a good thing Rich doesn't have to fight forest fires. The >>concept of a backfire would cause his tiny brain to implode. > >--- >I think Rich probably thinks a backfire is a jalapeno fart. ;) Jalapeo
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:04 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:24:08 -0300, YD <ydtechHAT(a)techie.com> Gave us: >On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:05:33 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:35:24 +0100, Eeyore >><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>O5O wrote: >>> >>>> GOOD JOB JIM!!!! >>>> >>>> I am impressed. >>>> >>>> One week. 489 posts to this thread! >>>> >>>> Keep up the good work! >>> >>>Maybe we can set a record ? >>> >>>Graham >> >>I wonder what's the record for the biggest thread on usenet? The >>subject line was surely blank, on the principle that the less specific >>the subject, the longer the thread. >> >>John > >Look up the "Hacker t-shirt" thread in alt.2600. ISTR it was 2000+ >last time I looked. It's pretty old by now. Seems there was one in >some startrek group that went on for so long it evolved into a >separate ng. > Then the thread title should be "New Thread For Fools". BTW, the longest thread is like ten years (likely longer) It isn't post count, it's time alive.
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:06 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:39:46 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> Gave us: >John Fields wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:26:26 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> John Larkin wrote: >> >>>> If so, how do you explain what a mess the world had been for, say, the >>>> previous 1000 years? Could it have been, just maybe, somebody else's >>>> doing? >>> As opposed to the mess it is now? >>> Just shows that the US has changed nothing. >>> In 1000 years the only thing the US will be remembered for will be the >>> moon landings. Not its brief shot at empire before the Chinese dominated >>> the globe. >> >> --- >> Yeah, like we're just going to sit back and let that happen? > >You plan on stopping them? >Within a couple of generations their economy will be about as big as the >rest of the world combined. By some measures their economy is already >larger than the US. > http://www.ccbhk.com/ Biggest bank in the world. No need to wait two generations. You're still an idiot.
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:15 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:39:54 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> Gave us: >John Fields wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:48:29 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> John Fields wrote: >>>> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:26:16 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >>>> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> John Fields wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:33:35 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >>>>>> --- >>>>>> LOL, you were there, huh? >>>>> I was around, and complaining about Saddam being a tyrannical murderer, >>>>> when he was your good pal and Rummy was photographed shaking his hand. >>>> --- >>>> We try to give everyone second and third chances... >>>> >>>> >>> Especially if they are mass murderers it seems. >> >> --- >> Geez, if we intervene we're wrong, and if we don't we're wrong. >> >> I guess we just can't win and you'd just like to see us all dead, >> huh? Or taking orders from you, Massa Dirk? > >I'll settle for 'not intervene' - full stop. > Except that we've already established that you're an absolute idiot. Hey, idiot. What would happen if that occurred? Would more Iraqis die or less?
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:18
On 3 Aug 2006 15:44:56 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us: > You could be next. You should be next. |