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Dick Adams said:

"Ultimately the low-end poster will rule Usenet."

What's a 'low end poster'?

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in news:45a8b8eb$0$759
:

> Dick Adams said:
>
> "Ultimately the low-end poster will rule Usenet."
>
> What's a 'low end poster'?
>
> Mary
>
>
>

Maybe the headboard of the bed is not as tall as the one at the foot?
alternatively, someone from Tierra del Fuego?

Brian

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"Brian" > wrote in message
...
> "Mary Fisher" > wrote in news:45a8b8eb$0$759
> :
>
>> Dick Adams said:
>>
>> "Ultimately the low-end poster will rule Usenet."
>>
>> What's a 'low end poster'?
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>>
>
> Maybe the headboard of the bed is not as tall as the one at the foot?
> alternatively, someone from Tierra del Fuego?
>
> Brian

Is that Brian the Lurker?

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in message t...
> "Brian" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Maybe the headboard of the bed is not as tall as the one at the foot?
> > alternatively, someone from Tierra del Fuego?
> Is that Brian the Lurker?

And, if one sleeps in a four-poster and speaks no Spanish,
what then, Mr. Lurker?

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"Dick Adams" > wrote in message
...



And, if one sleeps in a four-poster and speaks no Spanish,
what then, Mr. Lurker?

? I don't understand that either :-)

Someone I know irl (called Brian) very occasionally posts to some food
groups. I haven't seen him for some time but he might well have peeped in
here :-)

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in
t:

>
> "Dick Adams" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>
>
> And, if one sleeps in a four-poster and speaks no Spanish,
> what then, Mr. Lurker?
>
> ? I don't understand that either :-)
>
> Someone I know irl (called Brian) very occasionally posts to some
> food groups. I haven't seen him for some time but he might well have
> peeped in here :-)
>
> Mary
>
>

Not me Mary, I'm the Brian from Eastbourne.
I thought a Lurker was a dog?

Brian

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"Brian" > wrote in message
...

>>
>> ? I don't understand that either :-)
>>
>> Someone I know irl (called Brian) very occasionally posts to some
>> food groups. I haven't seen him for some time but he might well have
>> peeped in here :-)
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>
> Not me Mary, I'm the Brian from Eastbourne.
> I thought a Lurker was a dog?

That's a Lurcher! Probably my favourite dog.

I don't know where Brian the Lurker lives, I see him in Essex. But I'm glad
to have a fellow Brit here!

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in
t:

>
> That's a Lurcher! Probably my favourite dog.
>
> I don't know where Brian the Lurker lives, I see him in Essex. But
> I'm glad to have a fellow Brit here!
>
> Mary

Of course!

You can see some of my bread photos he
http://brian713.fotopic.net
unfortunately I only realised that it was a good idea to show the bread
cut open recently.

Brian

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"Brian" > wrote in message
...
> "Mary Fisher" > wrote in
> t:
>
>>
>> That's a Lurcher! Probably my favourite dog.
>>
>> I don't know where Brian the Lurker lives, I see him in Essex. But
>> I'm glad to have a fellow Brit here!
>>
>> Mary
>
> Of course!
>
> You can see some of my bread photos he
> http://brian713.fotopic.net

Now that's a nice site! I might well be asking you some questions, I don't
know anyone else who has made bath chaps!

But the 'bee' on the fatsia is a drone fly, not a bee :-) I know because
of its eyes and wings.

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in
t:
> Now that's a nice site! I might well be asking you some questions, I
> don't know anyone else who has made bath chaps!
>
> But the 'bee' on the fatsia is a drone fly, not a bee :-) I know
> because of its eyes and wings.
>
> Mary

Quite right and thanks Mary, I have just looked up drone fly in my
Observer book of... and changed the name.

Bath chap may have gone out of fashing because of the anti-fat brigade
nowadays. I belong to the generation of quality not quantity, so eat only
a little of everything I like.

Brian

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Brian > wrote in
:

> Bath chap may have gone out of fashing -

I meant fashion of course :-)

> because of the anti-fat
> brigade nowadays. I belong to the generation of quality not quantity,
> so eat only a little of everything I like.
>
> Brian
>

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"Brian" > wrote in message
...
> "Mary Fisher" > wrote in
> t:
>> Now that's a nice site! I might well be asking you some questions, I
>> don't know anyone else who has made bath chaps!
>>
>> But the 'bee' on the fatsia is a drone fly, not a bee :-) I know
>> because of its eyes and wings.
>>
>> Mary
>
> Quite right and thanks Mary, I have just looked up drone fly in my
> Observer book of... and changed the name.

Oh, thanks! I thought you might have objected to my mentioning it - it was
said with the best intention but some folk are very sensitive :-)
>
> Bath chap may have gone out of fashing because of the anti-fat brigade
> nowadays. I belong to the generation of quality not quantity, so eat only
> a little of everything I like.

Well done! So do I. but I think that batch chaps are regarded as undesirable
parts of the pig - like, well, I sha't say but I'm sure you know.

The only part I wouldn't eat is the squeal and the curl in the tail :-)

Mary

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in message t...
> Dick Adams said:
> >
> >"Ultimately the low-end poster will rule Usenet."
> >
> What's a 'low end poster'?

By example, they are all around us. Probably easier
to say what they are not. They are not persons who
pay attention to the precedents of good newsgroup
conduct.

Probably they simply are congenitally dull in most
instances -- a bottom segment of the so called
"normal" distribution.

One giveaway is that they requote much more than
they add, which frequently is a dumb one-line quip.
Another is diddling off into nontopciality.
Plenty more. Want a list?

--
Dicky

P.S. One other thing -- quite likely they are us.

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Dick Adams wrote:
> Probably they simply are congenitally dull in most
> instances -- a bottom segment of the so called
> "normal" distribution.
>
> One giveaway is that they requote much more than
> they add, which frequently is a dumb one-line quip.
> Another is diddling off into nontopicality.
> Plenty more. Want a list?

I guess I am at least 50 % safe from matching Dick's description.

No offense intended to the UK folks, but when my wife rolls her eyes at
my humor she says my humor is dull, it is as dry as a bone, and I must
have picked it up from my English ancestry.

My co-workers will vehimately say that I am ANYTHING but part of the
"normal" distribution.

Russ
(who worked hard to not requote the whole topic as a joke).

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"PastorDIC" > wrote in message ups.com...
> Dick Adams wrote:
> > Probably they simply are congenitally dull in most
> > instances -- a bottom segment of the so called
> > "normal" distribution.
> >
> > One giveaway is that they requote much more than
> > they add, which frequently is a dumb one-line quip.
> > Another is diddling off into nontopicality.
> > Plenty more. Want a list?
>
> I guess I am at least 50 % safe from matching Dick's description.
>
> No offense intended to the UK folks, but when my wife rolls her eyes at
> my humor she says my humor is dull, it is as dry as a bone, and I must
> have picked it up from my English ancestry.
>
> My co-workers will vehimately say that I am ANYTHING but part of the
> "normal" distribution.
>
> Russ
> (who worked hard to not requote the whole topic as a joke).
>

If you had learnt to spell properly (it's 'humour', BTW) we might accept that reasoning. The irony of English humour is that they
claim its creation whilst revelling in the likes of Benny Hill.

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Capomaestro wrote:
> If you had learnt to spell properly (it's 'humour', BTW) we might accept that reasoning. The irony of English humour is that they
> claim its creation whilst revelling in the likes of Benny Hill.
>
George Bernard Shaw commented, correctly, that "England and America are
two countries separated by a common language."

The language has diverged, and it is folly to seriously claim that
authority over the language rests on either side of the Atlantic ocean.

I *DO* hope your comments about the spelling of humor were in jest, and
not the ravings of yet another Brit who hasn't noticed that the world
has changed in the past several hundred years. (Not always for the
better, but it certainly has changed.)

Mike


--
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"Capomaestro" > wrote in message
...
>>
>> My co-workers will vehimately say that I am ANYTHING but part of the
>> "normal" distribution.
>>
>> Russ
>> (who worked hard to not requote the whole topic as a joke).
>>
>
> If you had learnt to spell properly (it's 'humour', BTW)

And 'vehemently'!


> we might accept that reasoning. The irony of English humour is that they
> claim its creation whilst revelling in the likes of Benny Hill.

Not all of us. I never saw anything to even smile at in Benny Hill, he was
not funny at all.

My father in law was a terrible prude but he'd never miss a BH broadcast.
Double standards or what!

Mary
>

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"Mike Avery" > wrote in message
news:mailman.8.1168995793.18804.rec.food.sourdough @mail.otherwhen.com...
> Capomaestro wrote:
>> If you had learnt to spell properly (it's 'humour', BTW) we might accept
>> that reasoning. The irony of English humour is that they
>> claim its creation whilst revelling in the likes of Benny Hill.
>>
> George Bernard Shaw commented, correctly, that "England and America are
> two countries separated by a common language."
>
> The language has diverged, and it is folly to seriously claim that
> authority over the language rests on either side of the Atlantic ocean.
>
> I *DO* hope your comments about the spelling of humor were in jest, and
> not the ravings of yet another Brit who hasn't noticed that the world has
> changed in the past several hundred years.

There are no Americans like that of course.

Is 'vehimately' a correct American spelling then? If so I apologise.

Mary

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Mary Fisher wrote:

> > Capomaestro wrote:
> >> The irony of English humour is that they
> >> claim its creation whilst revelling in the likes of Benny Hill.

Hey, and there was I thinking Americans didn't get Irony. Well Samartha
doesn't anyway. : -)

> > I *DO* hope your comments about the spelling of humor were in jest, and
> > not the ravings of yet another Brit who hasn't noticed that the world has
> > changed in the past several hundred years.

So do I. Yes it has moved on quite a bit, If only we all could revise
this stupid archaic spelling system and agree on some standards. But I
guess that would stifle a very healthy living language. We wouldn't
want it to go the way of Latin. But not only has the language moved on
but so too has British comedy. I doubt many young people will know who
Benny Hill is or rather was. Even I'm too young to have really
appreciated it the first time round.


Jim

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"Mary Fisher" > wrote in message t...
>
> "Capomaestro" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>
> >> My co-workers will vehimately say that I am ANYTHING but part of the
> >> "normal" distribution.
> >>
> >> Russ
> >> (who worked hard to not requote the whole topic as a joke).
> >>
> >
> > If you had learnt to spell properly (it's 'humour', BTW)
>
> And 'vehemently'!
>
>
> > we might accept that reasoning. The irony of English humour is that they
> > claim its creation whilst revelling in the likes of Benny Hill.
>
> Not all of us. I never saw anything to even smile at in Benny Hill, he was
> not funny at all.
>
> My father in law was a terrible prude but he'd never miss a BH broadcast.
> Double standards or what!
>
> Mary
> >
>
>

Perhaps Sasha Baron Cohen as Ali G and the Staines Massif or the 'wrestling' scene in Borat are more to your liking? Big hits in
the UK.

Strictly Come Dancing on the Beeb. Now that's British for entertainment.

"Nahht!" -Sasha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)

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"Capomaestro" > wrote in message
...
>> >
>>
>>
>
> Perhaps Sasha Baron Cohen as Ali G and the Staines Massif or the
> 'wrestling' scene in Borat are more to your liking? Big hits in
> the UK.
>
> Strictly Come Dancing on the Beeb. Now that's British for entertainment.
>
> "Nahht!" -Sasha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)

I bow to your greater experience.

We haven't a television.

Mary
>
>

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Mary Fisher wrote:
> "Mike Avery" > wrote in message
> news:mailman.8.1168995793.18804.rec.food.sourdough @mail.otherwhen.com...
>
>> George Bernard Shaw commented, correctly, that "England and America are
>> two countries separated by a common language."
>>
>> The language has diverged, and it is folly to seriously claim that
>> authority over the language rests on either side of the Atlantic ocean.
>>
>> I *DO* hope your comments about the spelling of humor were in jest, and
>> not the ravings of yet another Brit who hasn't noticed that the world has
>> changed in the past several hundred years.
>>
>
> There are no Americans like that of course.
>
There are, of course.

A desire to ignore reality is a human condition that transcends
boundaries. "Who Moved The Cheese?" is an amusing little book on that
subject.
> Is 'vehimately' a correct American spelling then? If so I apologise.
>
No. It looks like a typo. Typos transcend language, dialect and
training. We all make them. I use a spelling checker to make sure that
I've spelled SOME word correctly, even if turns out to be the wrong
word. <grin> It is amusing that Capomaestro caught PastorDic's use of
"humor" and didn't latch onto his use of "vehimately".

Mike


--
....The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world...

Mike Avery mavery at mail dot otherwhen dot com
part time baker ICQ 16241692
networking guru AIM, yahoo and skype mavery81230
wordsmith

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On Jan 16, 4:11 pm, "Capomaestro" > wrote:
>If you had learnt to spell properly (it's 'humour', BTW) we might accept that reasoning.

In a personal bit of Irony I spelled it the American way. The original
King James Version of the Bible with the King's English is one of two I
usually read and use to preach from (and grew up with as well).
Because of that, I really have to work to remove the "our" from a lot
of stuff in typing and writing including colour.

Now I'm at a place that it's appropriate to add the letters and I mess
up!!!!!
Russ

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On Jan 14, 9:58 pm, "Dick Adams" > wrote:
> "Mary Fisher" > wrote in tnet.net...
> > Dick Adams said:
> >"Ultimately the low-end poster will rule Usenet."

This entire thread reminds me of a joke:

Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
A: One is a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other is a fish....

Dick could insert "low-end poster" instead of "lawyer" into the joke.
Based on that, I haven't seen any true low-end posters on this list
except the guy who spammed in Arabic (I wish I hadn't pasted the Arabic
into the Google translator. What filth!.) and the other spammers.
Russ