"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>> The CABAL (TINC) for this group doesn't run things quite the way your
>> council that runs the recreation area at the old folks home where you
>> live does. Thanks for the offer, though.
>
> Did you not get recent memo #65536 dated 09/04/2009?
>
> Item 71: There Is No More, "TINC". Please reference new
> rule TINMTINC (p. 64)
>
> But that does bring up an interesting subjet: What happens when we
> - The Diehard Usenet Generation - turn old and maybe sitting at an
> old folks home ourselves - or someplace slightly nicer? Will we
> torment Usenet like Sheldon, and bitch about those people that we
> knew from postings 40 and 50 years ago? I figure by then we'll have
> dirt on everybody and we'd make for an entertaining group. Err...
> CABAL.
>
> -sw


You jest? The RFC "old folks home" was actually subject of discussion in
chat some years ago. I remember Damsel, ChrisD, Nancy (and I'm sure there
were others) all laughing about how we'd fight over who would use the
kitchen when. In between we'd have taken up knitting or some such nonsense
and be sitting in rocking chairs on the front porch.

Jill