"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> Those pics and videos will go down as scrapbooks for generations to
>> see. But their kids won't care less as they head down their own
>> path of Idiocracy.
>
> Good point. Not only that, but the RFC archives are
> entirely in text, which will be as obsolete as Morse Code
> in their time. Not like youtube or Facebook which are
> graphic and therefore do not require cogitating, and
> therefore are much more dangerous with regard to your
> legacy.


Nothing wrong with Morse Code Dit dit dit, dash dash dash, dit dit dit.
(Yes, I know it was replaced by the Maritime Distress Safety System. But
lots of people still recognize Morse Code, particularly the SOS. Or, OB
Food: Shit on a Shingle

Jill

"Mike" <mikexclothing@fellwalking> wrote in message
...
> this group is a mess and needs someone like me to control it. ive
> controlled
> uk.food+drink.misc with a little help from giusi, june hughes, ophelia and
> tim c
> for years now and i say whats posted there and who by. thats what this
> group
> needs and it needs it now. im in my sixties a fellwalker and have more
> knowledge
> than most of the people here combined. i also worked for the council so im
> ideal
> to organise and control this group.
>
> --
> Spanish food "http://www.fellwalker.co.uk/espania.htm"
> (remove clothing to email)

bugger off mate

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:14:33 +0100, Mike wrote:

> this group is a mess and needs someone like me to control it. ive controlled
> uk.food+drink.misc with a little help from giusi, june hughes, ophelia and tim c
> for years now and i say whats posted there and who by. thats what this group
> needs and it needs it now. im in my sixties a fellwalker and have more knowledge
> than most of the people here combined. i also worked for the council so im ideal
> to organise and control this group.

cram it, asshole.

blake

On 28 Apr 2009 20:32:21 GMT, Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> Mark Thorson > : in
> rec.food.cooking
>
>> I'd worry more about the generation which followed us,
>> putting up their pictures and life stories and networks
>> of friends up on Facebook, etc. All that stuff is going
>> to live forever, and many will regret what they've made
>> public. Compared to that, RFC is small potatoes.
>
> That's for sure. Some of the youngsters today don't seem to take into
> consideration some of the crazy people looking at their stuff. And the
> worst is like 20 years from now and one of your kids stumble across that
> drunken, nude pic you put up or worse... a YouTube video.
>
> I think us Usenetters are a slowly dying breed. Usenet itself is a
> dinosaur.
>
> Michael

hard to say. dinosaurs seem to fascinate pre-adolescents, of which we seem
to have an alarming number posting here.

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:07:08 +0000 (UTC), elaich wrote:

> Mark Thorson > wrote in :
>
>> I'd worry more about the generation which followed us,
>> putting up their pictures and life stories and networks
>> of friends up on Facebook, etc. All that stuff is going
>> to live forever, and many will regret what they've made
>> public. Compared to that, RFC is small potatoes.
>
> Far worse than that is Twitter. You constantly post what you are doing and
> where you are, and you have 'followers' (stalkers?) who follow your every
> move. Juvenile, twisted, and sick - and that sadly seems normal to our
> children.

frankly, i think twitter will die before usenet. how much useful
information can you really put in 140 characters? (i say that knowing full
well that many of my posts are shorter than that.)

your pal,
blake

On 29 Apr 2009 13:25:00 GMT, Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> Pennyaline >
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>>
>> It's perfect for the Entitlement Generation, and entire demographic
>> that recruits "followers" as though somebody should give a shit about
>> what they're "doing right now," and who acquire Facebook "friends"
>> only as a means to broadcast their blathering nonsense at little
>> farther. No wonder they have little concept of what real friendships
>> are and how people should treat each other.
>
> I've often wondered about all this yip yapping electronically. Seriously,
> if you yip yap, email and Twitter with your friends/family all day what do
> you have to discuss over dinner?
>
> Michael

how cruddy the food is.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:45:45 -0400, cybercat wrote:

> "elaich" > wrote in message ...
>> Mark Thorson > wrote in :
>>
>>> I'd worry more about the generation which followed us,
>>> putting up their pictures and life stories and networks
>>> of friends up on Facebook, etc. All that stuff is going
>>> to live forever, and many will regret what they've made
>>> public. Compared to that, RFC is small potatoes.
>>
>> Far worse than that is Twitter. You constantly post what you are doing and
>> where you are, and you have 'followers' (stalkers?) who follow your every
>> move. Juvenile, twisted, and sick - and that sadly seems normal to our
>> children.
>
> Yes, yes, those young whippersnappers are all going to hell in a handbasket.
> Same as your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother etc. said.

things have been deteriorating ever since that gutenberg feller came along.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:05:19 GMT, l, not -l wrote:

> On 28-Apr-2009, Becca > wrote:
>
>> We will be sitting in nursing homes, the men will be talking about the
>> war in Vietnam, and ordering viagra online. The women will be sitting
>> in wheelchairs with their breast implants sagging down to their knees,
>> looking at their ankle tattoos of lightning bolts. Oh yeah, it should
>> be fun.
>>
>>
>> Becca
>
> Ankle tatoo is the least of those problems; imagine what a sagging, wrinkled
> tramp-stamp will look like.

dig this in forty years or so:

<http://www.buzzfeed.com/edithzimmerman/saddest-tramp-stamp-y7>

your pal,
blake

blake wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:14:13 GMT:

>> On 28-Apr-2009, Becca > wrote:
>>
>>> We will be sitting in nursing homes, the men will be talking
>>> about the war in Vietnam, and ordering viagra online. The
>>> women will be sitting in wheelchairs with their breast
>>> implants sagging down to their knees, looking at their ankle
>>> tattoos of lightning bolts. Oh yeah, it should be fun.
>>>
>>> Becca
>>
>> Ankle tatoo is the least of those problems; imagine what a
>> sagging, wrinkled tramp-stamp will look like.

> dig this in forty years or so:

> <http://www.buzzfeed.com/edithzimmerm...tramp-stamp-y7
> >

That must be a record! I am probably a little out of touch (!) since I
don't particularly like tatoos anyway but have you seen the Ozzy term
for the more usual type: "arse antler"?

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Apr 28, 10:45*pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> Yes, yes, those young whippersnappers are all going to hell in a handbasket.
> Same as your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother etc. said.
================================================== =====

Yup. My favorite bumper sticker: "Where are we going and why am I in
this handbasket?"

Lynn in Fargo
real bumper sticker available at
Northern Sun in Minneapolis
(They've got all their anti-Bush stuff on clearance)

Sqwertz wrote:

> 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)

Oh, *that* memo? I chose to ignore it; thought everybody would - as they
do all other memos. Guess not.
>
> 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.

This has been discussed before. And yes, IMHO, we will still be whining
and moaning at (and about) each other in our rocking chairs. How we're
all going to manage eating popcorn with dentures is still up for debate
though...
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

jmcquown wrote:
> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>> Those pics and videos will go down as scrapbooks for generations to
>>> see. But their kids won't care less as they head down their own
>>> path of Idiocracy.
>>
>> Good point. Not only that, but the RFC archives are
>> entirely in text, which will be as obsolete as Morse Code
>> in their time. Not like youtube or Facebook which are
>> graphic and therefore do not require cogitating, and
>> therefore are much more dangerous with regard to your
>> legacy.
>
>
> Nothing wrong with Morse Code Dit dit dit, dash dash dash, dit dit
> dit. (Yes, I know it was replaced by the Maritime Distress Safety
> System. But lots of people still recognize Morse Code, particularly
> the SOS. Or, OB Food: Shit on a Shingle
>
> Jill


When I took the Extra class exam to get a radio license, I was doing
Morse Code at 35 wpm. That was several years ago, now I doubt if I
could do 5 wpm. Like you said, who uses the Morse Code, anyway?


Becca
N7BL (vanity call sign)

Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:
>
> I'm guessing 20 years or so down the road there will be no official Usenet
> archives and probably few, if any, NNTP servers around. Perhaps someone
> will try to keep it alive but I'm guessing in the future Usenet will just
> be something found in a reference textbook.

20 years from now, the entire Usenet archive will fit
on a memory stick. Somebody will keep it available
on the net.

On Apr 28, 4:29*pm, Nancy2 > wrote:
> On Apr 28, 1:14 pm, Mike <mikexclothing@fellwalking> wrote:
>
> > this group is a mess and needs someone like me to control it. ive controlled
> > uk.food+drink.misc with a little help from giusi, june hughes, ophelia and tim c
> > for years now and i say whats posted there and who by. thats what this group
> > needs and it needs it now. im in my sixties a fellwalker and have more knowledge
> > than most of the people here combined. i also worked for the council so im ideal
> > to organise and control this group.
>
> > --
> > Spanish food "http://www.fellwalker.co.uk/espania.htm"
> > (remove clothing to email)
>
> Yeah? *Don't hold your breath waiting for votes. *If you want to boss
> something around, start your own group. *And, BTW, not all of us want
> some silly Brit moderating anything.
>
> N.

Nancy, how dare you use rec.food.cooking and moderation in the same
breath? You of all people should know better!

;-)
maxne ni ri

In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
> Oh, *that* memo? I chose to ignore it; thought everybody would - as they
> do all other memos. Guess not.

Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates to
the fourth day of September of the year 2009. In other words, the memo
hasn't taken effect yet.

:-)

Once we reach that date, of course, I will *then* proceed to ignore it.

:-)

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:14 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> > 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)
>>
>> Oh, *that* memo? I chose to ignore it; thought everybody would - as they
>> do all other memos. Guess not.
>
> Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates to
> the fourth day of September of the year 2009. In other words, the memo
> hasn't taken effect yet.
>
> :-)

<g> Shoulda spotted that... I keep forgetting that the US has it's
day/month format front-to-back, um, I mean back-to-front. That's why we
should all stick to the yyyy-mm-dd like most well behaved mainframes and
computers do...
>
> Once we reach that date, of course, I will *then* proceed to ignore it.
>
> :-)

<laugh> As well you should.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> dsi1 > : in
> rec.food.cooking
>
>> I thought Google was the official sponsor of the Usenet archives. As
>> far as someone trying to keep Usenet alive, isn't Google Groups doing
>> exactly that?
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "official sponsor" but Google is by
> far the most extensive and complete archival service for Usenet. A lot of
> admins and other commercial sites archive Usenet posts but none compare to
> Google's massive storage capabilities. However, Usenet is a tiny little
> smidgen of the overall Google enterprise. Google's search engine is #1
> last I heard with Yahoo following as #2. Mega revenue is generated by the
> search engine itself. I don't know much about Google but I'm *guessing*
> Usenet is a small and disposable chunk of the business. We have it as long
> as they let us have it. In the old days we had Dejanews which sold out to
> Google.

The official sponsor was tongue-in-cheek but Google would probably
qualify as keeping Usenet afloat. My guess is that many if not most, of
the posters in Usenet forums will come in through Google's door. As it
goes, Google saw something worthwhile in Usenet and was willing to pay
for the archives. Google does not own Usenet, but you're probably right
that they can close the doorway to and from Usenet and my guess is that
it would probably be in their best interest to do so. Usenet will still
go on if this happens but as a smaller entity - more like it was in the
beginning. Academics, geeks, and nutcases? :-)

It's obvious that Google sees a future where computers don't need an
big, expensive, operating system - just a browser (Google's Chrome), a
connection, a free open-source OS (Google's Android), a search-engine
(Google), and on-line apps (Google.)


>
> Michael
>
>

In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:14 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> > Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates to
> > the fourth day of September of the year 2009.

> <g> Shoulda spotted that... I keep forgetting that the US has it's
> day/month format front-to-back, um, I mean back-to-front. That's why we
> should all stick to the yyyy-mm-dd like most well behaved mainframes and
> computers do...

You've just gotta put the important things first. My father is 92
(maybe 93, I'm not good at these things) and has senile dementia. I
talked to him on the phone yesterday and he asked me about the weather.
He always wants to know about the weather, that's pretty important to
him. So I told him, and he commented that that was pretty warm for
London. Then he caught himself, and said he knew I didn't live in
London. But where *did* I live? I've been in California for the last
35 years. I went to visit him last spring, and he always wanted to know
what the date was. My sister or I would tell him the day of the month,
and he'd get frustrated. No, he didn't care what day it was, they were
all the same. He wanted to know what *month* it was. OK. Once you
told him the month, then he'd relate that to the weather.

So, the point is, the month goes first, because it's the most important.

:-)

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

blake murphy wrote:


> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:45:45 -0400, cybercat wrote:
>
> > "elaich" > wrote in message ...
> >> Mark Thorson > wrote in
:
> >>
> >>> I'd worry more about the generation which followed us,
> >>> putting up their pictures and life stories and networks
> >>> of friends up on Facebook, etc. All that stuff is going
> >>> to live forever, and many will regret what they've made
> >>> public. Compared to that, RFC is small potatoes.
> >>
> >> Far worse than that is Twitter. You constantly post what you are doing
and
> >> where you are, and you have 'followers' (stalkers?) who follow your
every
> >> move. Juvenile, twisted, and sick - and that sadly seems normal to our
> >> children.
> >
> > Yes, yes, those young whippersnappers are all going to hell in a
handbasket.
> > Same as your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother etc. said.
>
> things have been deteriorating ever since that gutenberg feller came
along.
>


Hush your MOUTH, you spawn of the Devil's own strumpet...!!!

;-D


--
Best
Greg

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher

Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>
>> cybercat wrote:
>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>> Becca > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The women will be sitting
>>>>>> in wheelchairs with their breast implants sagging down to their
>>>>>> knees, looking at their ankle tattoos of lightning bolts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey - where can I meet these chicks?
>>>>
>>>> lol
>>>
>>> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>>
>> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness,
>> so I unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me
>> when you want to)
>>
>> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on you
>
>
> It's good to see you, Ms. O...
>
> :-)

Thank you m'dear It is good to see you too)

Ophelia wrote:

> cybercat wrote:
> > "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>> Becca > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The women will be sitting
> >>>> in wheelchairs with their breast implants sagging down to their
> >>>> knees, looking at their ankle tattoos of lightning bolts.
> >>>
> >>> Hey - where can I meet these chicks?
> >>
> >> lol
> >
> > WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>
> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness, so I
> unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me when you want
> to)
>
> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on you


It's good to see you, Ms. O...

:-)


--
Best
Greg

blake murphy wrote:

> On 28 Apr 2009 20:32:21 GMT, Michael "Dog3" wrote:
>
> > Mark Thorson > : in
> > rec.food.cooking
> >
> >> I'd worry more about the generation which followed us,
> >> putting up their pictures and life stories and networks
> >> of friends up on Facebook, etc. All that stuff is going
> >> to live forever, and many will regret what they've made
> >> public. Compared to that, RFC is small potatoes.
> >
> > That's for sure. Some of the youngsters today don't seem to take into
> > consideration some of the crazy people looking at their stuff. And the
> > worst is like 20 years from now and one of your kids stumble across that
> > drunken, nude pic you put up or worse... a YouTube video.
> >
> > I think us Usenetters are a slowly dying breed. Usenet itself is a
> > dinosaur.
> >
> > Michael
>
> hard to say. dinosaurs seem to fascinate pre-adolescents, of which we
seem
> to have an alarming number posting here.


Do you think that in your "End Days" you'll end up as an aging jitterbug,
blake...???



--
Best
Greg

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>> Becca > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The women will be sitting
>>>>>>> in wheelchairs with their breast implants sagging down to their
>>>>>>> knees, looking at their ankle tattoos of lightning bolts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey - where can I meet these chicks?
>>>>>
>>>>> lol
>>>>
>>>> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>>>
>>> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness,
>>> so I unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me
>>> when you want to)
>>>
>>> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on you
>>
>>
>> It's good to see you, Ms. O...
>>
>> :-)
>
> Thank you m'dear It is good to see you too)

*still frozen under Ms. O's watchful eye*

cybercat wrote:
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>>> Becca > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The women will be sitting
>>>>>>>> in wheelchairs with their breast implants sagging down to their
>>>>>>>> knees, looking at their ankle tattoos of lightning bolts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey - where can I meet these chicks?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> lol
>>>>>
>>>>> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness,
>>>> so I unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me
>>>> when you want to)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on
>>>> you
>>>
>>>
>>> It's good to see you, Ms. O...
>>>
>>> :-)
>>
>> Thank you m'dear It is good to see you too)
>
> *still frozen under Ms. O's watchful eye*

<wink>

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:29:06 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:14 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> > Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates
>> > to the fourth day of September of the year 2009.
>
>> <g> Shoulda spotted that... I keep forgetting that the US has it's
>> day/month format front-to-back, um, I mean back-to-front. That's why we
>> should all stick to the yyyy-mm-dd like most well behaved mainframes
>> and computers do...
>
> You've just gotta put the important things first. My father is 92
> (maybe 93, I'm not good at these things) and has senile dementia. I
> talked to him on the phone yesterday and he asked me about the weather.
> He always wants to know about the weather, that's pretty important to
> him. So I told him, and he commented that that was pretty warm for
> London. Then he caught himself, and said he knew I didn't live in
> London. But where *did* I live? I've been in California for the last
> 35 years. I went to visit him last spring, and he always wanted to know
> what the date was. My sister or I would tell him the day of the month,
> and he'd get frustrated. No, he didn't care what day it was, they were
> all the same. He wanted to know what *month* it was. OK. Once you
> told him the month, then he'd relate that to the weather.
>
> So, the point is, the month goes first, because it's the most important.

Depends. I had a co-worker years ago who thought the day of the month was
more important. He'd look at the calendar and say, "Hmm. It's only the
15th, dammit. There's still too much month left at the end of my money."

;-)

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

"blake murphy" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:05:19 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>
>> On 28-Apr-2009, Becca > wrote:
>>
>>> We will be sitting in nursing homes, the men will be talking about the
>>> war in Vietnam, and ordering viagra online. The women will be sitting
>>> in wheelchairs with their breast implants sagging down to their knees,
>>> looking at their ankle tattoos of lightning bolts. Oh yeah, it should
>>> be fun.
>>>
>>>
>>> Becca
>>
>> Ankle tatoo is the least of those problems; imagine what a sagging,
>> wrinkled
>> tramp-stamp will look like.
>
> dig this in forty years or so:
>
> <http://www.buzzfeed.com/edithzimmerman/saddest-tramp-stamp-y7>
>

Too bad there isn't a typo.

Michael "Dog3" wrote:

>
> LOL... I think you're right and I also think Mark Thorson is right.
> Usenet will be on a memory stick stuck out of the way with a download
> link. I'll be poking at my touch screen with the pointy end of my cane
>

Google will data mine the Usenet archives to be used as a model of all
aspects of human interaction and create the first true AI consciousness.
At this point, machines will take over the Earth with humans used mainly
as pets or as a source of high quality machine oil. Shortly thereafter,
the machines will destroy themselves. :-)

>
> Michael
>

l, not -l wrote:

>
> On 29-Apr-2009, Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>> So, the point is, the month goes first, because it's the most
>> important.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> --
>
> And, it follows a logical pattern too; moving from the general to the
> specific - year, month, day, hour, minute, second

Yabut - take today's date (i.e. the last day of April). It would be
formatted as 04/30/2009 in the US, right? Which does not support what
you say above. The way I see it (because I read stuff from left to
right) is: month/day/year, not year/month/day. Even if you read it
backwards it still gives you year/day/month. What you were talking
about would be the yyyy-mm-dd format i.e. 2009-04-30 which is what I
reckon is more 'logical'. <g>
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Ophelia wrote:

> cybercat wrote:
>>
>> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>
> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness, so
> I
> unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me when you
> want to)
>
> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on you

<laugh> So it's your turn to be group moderator this week?
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

ChattyCathy wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>
>> cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>>
>> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness, so
>> I
>> unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me when you
>> want to)
>>
>> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on you
>
> <laugh> So it's your turn to be group moderator this week?

<G> *strutt*

ChattyCathy said...

>> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on you
>
> <laugh> So it's your turn to be group moderator this week?


I wouldn't ever want to be the rfc group moderator of the week for all the
pizza pie on the planet. But, I would enjoy all the pizza pie on the planet
for a week! :9

Best,

Andy
--
Eat first, talk later.

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> "Ophelia" > news:75t41uF199n2cU3
> @mid.individual.net: in rec.food.cooking
>
>> ChattyCathy wrote:
>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I've missed you.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sweetie) From time to time I get fed up with the nastiness,
>>>> so I
>>>> unsubscribe for a bit. Heck, you know how to get hold of me when
>>>> you want to)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I am back for a wee while so watch it, I have my eye on
>>>> you
>>>
>>> <laugh> So it's your turn to be group moderator this week?
>>
>> <G> *strutt*
>
> LOL... Welcome back O. I stole the pointy stick from <insert CABAL
> (TINC) member's name>. Wanna borrow it ;-)

Yayy, Michael) Or I could appoint you as the pointy stick wielder on my
behalf?

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> "Ophelia" >
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>>>
>>> LOL... Welcome back O. I stole the pointy stick from <insert CABAL
>>> (TINC) member's name>. Wanna borrow it ;-)
>>
>> Yayy, Michael) Or I could appoint you as the pointy stick wielder
>> on my behalf?
>
> <blush> Well... perhaps I *could* do it for a short time. I'm not
> very good at it though ;-)

Tut! I am sure you are!!!

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> "l, not -l" >
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>
>> Michael, pay attention; you're supposed watch great shows on Food
>> Network while eating your dinner from Applebee's Carside-to-go or
>> Dierberg's Deli and Carry-out Cafe. Eat, don't talk, you might miss
>> some of the greatness of Food Network Challenge or Bobby Flay's
>> Throw-up, er, I mean Throw Down.
>>
>
> <SHUDDER> Sad thing is you're probably right. It amazes me the number of
> people that absolutely dote on Sandra Lee. Well, who am I to criticize?
> <shrug> to each his/her own I guess. They can keep "their own" AFAIC.
>
> Michael


Just yesterday, I read that Sandra Lee designed Kurtain Kraft, this is
where she found her claim to fame. Not sure how she got a television
show.


http://tinyurl.com/d6fxar


Becca

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:29:22 GMT, James Silverton wrote:

> blake wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:14:13 GMT:
>
>>> On 28-Apr-2009, Becca > wrote:
>>>
>>>> We will be sitting in nursing homes, the men will be talking
>>>> about the war in Vietnam, and ordering viagra online. The
>>>> women will be sitting in wheelchairs with their breast
>>>> implants sagging down to their knees, looking at their ankle
>>>> tattoos of lightning bolts. Oh yeah, it should be fun.
>>>>
>>>> Becca
>>>
>>> Ankle tatoo is the least of those problems; imagine what a
>>> sagging, wrinkled tramp-stamp will look like.
>
>> dig this in forty years or so:
>
>> <http://www.buzzfeed.com/edithzimmerm...tramp-stamp-y7
>>>
>
> That must be a record! I am probably a little out of touch (!) since I
> don't particularly like tatoos anyway but have you seen the Ozzy term
> for the more usual type: "arse antler"?

no, but it's pretty funny.

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:11:57 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig
wrote:

> On Apr 28, 10:45*pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
>> Yes, yes, those young whippersnappers are all going to hell in a handbasket.
>> Same as your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother etc. said.
> ================================================== =====
>
> Yup. My favorite bumper sticker: "Where are we going and why am I in
> this handbasket?"
>
> Lynn in Fargo

there was another along the lines of 'the quality of handbaskets has been
deteriorating.'


your pal,
blake

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:36:05 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
> Oh, *that* memo? I chose to ignore it; thought everybody would - as they
> do all other memos. Guess not.
>>
>> 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.
>
> This has been discussed before. And yes, IMHO, we will still be whining
> and moaning at (and about) each other in our rocking chairs. How we're
> all going to manage eating popcorn with dentures is still up for debate
> though...

someone will come up with a food processor method.

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:14 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> 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)
>>
>> Oh, *that* memo? I chose to ignore it; thought everybody would - as they
>> do all other memos. Guess not.
>
> Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates to
> the fourth day of September of the year 2009. In other words, the memo
> hasn't taken effect yet.
>
> :-)
>
> Once we reach that date, of course, I will *then* proceed to ignore it.
>
> :-)

you can never get too early a start on ignoring things.

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:29:06 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:14 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:
>
>>> Steve and I are from the US. That means that 09/04/2009 translates to
>>> the fourth day of September of the year 2009.
>
>> <g> Shoulda spotted that... I keep forgetting that the US has it's
>> day/month format front-to-back, um, I mean back-to-front. That's why we
>> should all stick to the yyyy-mm-dd like most well behaved mainframes and
>> computers do...
>
> You've just gotta put the important things first. My father is 92
> (maybe 93, I'm not good at these things) and has senile dementia. I
> talked to him on the phone yesterday and he asked me about the weather.
> He always wants to know about the weather, that's pretty important to
> him. So I told him, and he commented that that was pretty warm for
> London. Then he caught himself, and said he knew I didn't live in
> London. But where *did* I live? I've been in California for the last
> 35 years. I went to visit him last spring, and he always wanted to know
> what the date was. My sister or I would tell him the day of the month,
> and he'd get frustrated. No, he didn't care what day it was, they were
> all the same. He wanted to know what *month* it was. OK. Once you
> told him the month, then he'd relate that to the weather.
>
> So, the point is, the month goes first, because it's the most important.
>
> :-)

'who the **** are these people, and why do they want to know who the
president is?'

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:24:25 -1000, dsi1 wrote:

> Michael "Dog3" wrote:
>
>>
>> LOL... I think you're right and I also think Mark Thorson is right.
>> Usenet will be on a memory stick stuck out of the way with a download
>> link. I'll be poking at my touch screen with the pointy end of my cane
>>
>
> Google will data mine the Usenet archives to be used as a model of all
> aspects of human interaction and create the first true AI consciousness.
> At this point, machines will take over the Earth with humans used mainly
> as pets or as a source of high quality machine oil. Shortly thereafter,
> the machines will destroy themselves. :-)
>

nah. the machines will begin to devote all their resources to arguing
about abortion and gun control.

your pal,
blake