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Wayne Boatwright
 
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On Tue 05 Apr 2005 10:34:19p, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 6 Apr 2005 06:58:47 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> While you're checking... Your "sig" is not coming through on your
>> posts as a sig, but as part of your message. (See below). You should
>> check on that too.
>>
>> You might try the following, just as an experiment... On the line
>> preceding your sig, insert "--" (no quotes) in the first character
>> position. Most newsreaders interpret this as the beginning of the
>> sig.

>
>
> Thanks for the tip, I had no clue! I deleted the quotes... easier
> than readjusting the already altered lines.


Okay, now you need to add the two dashes on the line before "sf". See
where I've put them below.

>
>
> How does it look now?



--
> sf
>
>
> We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our
> election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude"
>
> If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in
> our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our
> amusements, for our calling and our creeds...we [will] have no time to
> think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to
> obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the
> necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human
> governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a
> precedent for another till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere
> automatons of misery.
>
> And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation
> follows that and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
>
> Thomas Jefferson,
> Author of The Declaration of Independence, Founding Father and Third
> U.S. President
>




--
Wayne Boatwright
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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