From: bill.sloman on

Phat Bytestard wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2006 11:05:28 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us:
>
> >I am surprised that the Phat Bytestard got the joke - he's performing
> >above his regular level of competence. Now let's see if he knows what
> >two plus two equals ..
> >
> >In the meantime, John Fields needs to raise his game - nothing the
> >Phathead can follow is exactly subtle.
>
>
> I was runnin' racks, and makin' cracks back in '71, dufus. I got
> more on the ball than you ever had, and of course, old man, ever will
> have.

That was then - this is now, several billion dead neurones later.

> Rack 'em, chump! You lose!

Yes, yes - of course - but you are late for your appointment at the
Alzheimer's clinic. Again.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

From: bill.sloman on

John Fields wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2006 15:19:07 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote:
>
> >
> >John Fields wrote:
>
> >> ---
> >> I write at several levels simultaneously. Didn't you notice? ;)
> >
> >Nice try.
>
> ---
> That's a 'no', then?

Have you stopped beating your significant other?

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

From: John Woodgate on
In message <Xns981688D64623Bjyanikkuanet(a)129.250.170.84>, dated Sat, 5
Aug 2006, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> writes
>John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote in
>news:rxscAzFfgD1EFw1P(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk:
>
>> In message <44D41E6E.D684D343(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Sat, 5 Aug
>> 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes
>>
>>>Your mistake, which seems common in the US is to see all 'Islamists' -
>>>they're called Moslems btw as freedom-hating terrorists.
>>
>> 'Islamists' means zealots, like 'Zionists'. The vast majority of Muslims
>> want nothing to do with Islamists.
>
>I dunno about that;it seems they passively support them.

'Passive support'? Peaceable Muslims don't kill Islamists any more than
peaceable Jews kill Zionists.

> Large numbers of American Muslims cheer Hezbollah,even though if
>Hez(or any other Islamics) took over,their way of life in the US would
>cease and many of them would be oppressed. IMO,it may be just that they
>are keeping a low profile and seeing which way the tides flow.

It's easy to support militants when they are 5000 miles away. Or even
3000, like the IRA.
>
>
>Much of the stuff the "radicals" are saying IS a basic tenet of
>Islam,written in the Koran.

Many Muslims deny that. But there is a lot of such stuff in the Bible,
too. And then there's 'Onward, Christian soldiers....'.
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2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely.

John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: bill.sloman on

Phat Bytestard wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2006 16:10:06 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us:
>
> >
> >Phat Bytestard wrote:
> >> On 2 Aug 2006 19:16:04 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us:
> >>
> >> >If his brains
> >>
> >> Double posting now, SlowMan? How many years have you been in
> >> Usenet? Oh... that's right... you are too pathetic to care about
> >> conventions.
> >
> >I blame the link - I didn't get an acknowledgement for ages, and
> >thought that I failed to click the send icon ....
>
> Said the google groups Usenet retard. I find it amazing that you at
> least know how to format a post.

Granting your obvious cognitive deficit, you must find a lot of things
amazing and inexplicable.

Don't let it worry you. Jim Thompson will tell you what to think ...

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

From: John Woodgate on
In message <1154801057.855289.34900(a)i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, dated
Sat, 5 Aug 2006, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org writes
>Allende's government in Chile was - correctly - called a democracy, and
>you didn't find it sympathetic.

It wasn't very, and it was stupid. Nationalising US companies without
compensation was not a brilliant move, was it?
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OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk
2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely.

John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK