[Brin-l] Huh? How do you mean 'plain' English?

2002-09-19 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
I managed to struggle on to the list settings and found this little gem: Conceal yourself from subscriber list? I'd say yes, but then there it mentions. If you do _not_ want your email address to show up on this membership roster, select No for this option. So what do I do, answer the

Re: [Brin-l] RE: Changeover... topic identifiers?

2002-09-22 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Adrian Hon wrote: From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message I am replying to shows John D. Giorgis in the from field. Since several people are on several lists I am on, it would not be possible to identify Brin-l without the [Brin-l]. Kinda sucks no matter which way you

Re: Administrivia: Get rid of [Brin-L] in subject header??

2002-09-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Nick Arnett wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik Reuter ... How do you do that? From is the individual person's email address who sent the message. Actually, the From field on this list is the bounces address, which

Re: Iraq: Take This Reso and Shove It

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Russell Sherman wrote: Pardon me, but does this stance read like If you threaten us, we'll call your bluff to anyone else? From: J.D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iraq Vows Not to Abide by Any New U.N. Vote Limiting Agreement to Existing Terms Suggests Baghdad By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Re: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jim Sharkey wrote: Baardwijk, J. wrote: Van: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Aha, so the US is not the only country where you can give your child pretty much any name you like. Poor kids. Yes, here in Brazil we can also give any name. I think all democratic countries in the

Re: Brain, brain, what is brain? Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Is there a place that Tom takes things to and leaves them there?Check there for your brain, he might have picked it up and put it somewhere else. I've been looking for my own brain, plus a couple of alphabet blocks that are missing

Re: Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Miller, Jeffrey wrote: snip ymmv, but its nothing more than a show about pretty people being angsty. Throw a cast slightly less attractive into the show with less sexy clothing, cut the oh-so-dangerous lesbian thing (that's there only to attract the panting

Re: Evil Empire: the World leader in executions

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Reggie Bautista wrote: So who exactly is a child, and who is an adult? What magically happens that makes a person a child the day before they turn 18, and an adult the next day *after* they have turned 18 (or 16 or 12 or whatever age defined by their culture)? A parent is legally no longer

Re: Horses, was Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: (The Friesian team had both elegance and biggerness; that's the breed of (usually black) horse popularized in America by the movie 'Ladyhawke.') nitpick If it ain't black it ain't as black

Re: Gene therapy, was Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm pretty sure that the University (Pennsylvania?) that was involved in the gene therapy death of recent note had its permit to conduct such research pulled; I do remember reading some debate in the journals about tighter regulations. The leader of said institute

Re: Brain, brain, what is brain? Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: The real problem was that Sammy woke up after less than an hour, cried, and his daddy picked him up and brought him downstairs. Ah, that kind of problem. Yeah I found a solution for that too. I go out shopping, leaving Tom with daddy. evil grin Unfortunatly I'm more

Re: 33lb's of uranium

2002-09-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: who's wondering if Jeroen or Sonja will correctly identify the brand of baby bottle she was using when she was using baby bottles Avent? Everybody uses those around here, but afaik it's British. And ours have volume in ml on them, since we use metric. I still use one

Re: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I say...

2002-09-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Horn, John wrote: From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Blues Clues. I know every word to every song on a kiddie show that was on while I was at work. Sheeesh!!! I love Blue's Clues! My daughter was really into that one. We have multiple tapes full of episodes of

Re: Evil Empire: the World leader in executions

2002-09-30 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Reggie Bautista wrote: I wrote: So who exactly is a child, and who is an adult? What magically happens that makes a person a child the day before they turn 18, and an adult the next day *after* they have turned 18 (or 16 or 12 or whatever age defined by their culture)? Sonja

Re: god vs science

2002-10-01 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: It's a lot nicer to spend a day or two comforting a child who's having a reaction from a vaccine or three than to actually deal with the child getting the disease and being *sick* for a lot longer than that, and possibly carry effects of that illness for the rest of his

Re: Evil Empire: the World leader in executions

2002-10-01 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Reggie Bautista wrote: Which is exactly the point I was originally trying to make regarding execution of children. If you have a country where executions are legal, as they are in the U.S., then you should be able to decide on a case-by-case basis, as the U.S. does, if someone who is

Re: Georgia school board OKs alternatives to evolution

2002-10-02 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:32:02PM -0400, Jim Sharkey wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: No. I think people should tolerate whatever the fuck people want to write. Ah, the mature response. Guaranteed to get peope to see your point of view every time! :) Who the

Re: Georgia school board OKs alternatives to evolution

2002-10-02 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Actually Peope is a she, a female dolphin from the Streaker crew. Peepoe D'oh, I knew I should have looked that up. Sonja I just feel I dunno sooo blond today. ( + )( + ) maru

Re: Georgia school board OKs alternatives to evolution

2002-10-02 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jim Sharkey wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: ( + )( + ) maru Boobs maru? Register now! Hey! You snipped the rest of that comment. Blond usually seems to go with them sillicon boobs. No? And more blond as in more stupid goes with more distraction material, e.g. boobs Oh man

Re: crime was evil empire

2002-10-02 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: I found a web site which had an excel file with international crime data: http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/international/ Hardly a rigorous study: I took the data and did some things with it. I divided each incident of crime by the population, averaged each crime statistic

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-10-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: ... but I just don't like having more than about 10 things on the taskbar with the same icon. Do you have a solution to that? If so, I'm interested. Opera. It uses it's own icons, inside it's own window. So you only have one thing on your taskbar and that is Opera.

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-10-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dan Minette wrote: ... you didn't get it right for 18 years ago... Huh, maybe its just me, but I think you should stop e-mailing now, before you make any more mistakes Sonja ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-10-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Matt Grimaldi wrote: Dan Minette wrote: ... you didn't get it right for 18 years ago... Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Huh, maybe its just me, but I think you should stop e-mailing now, before you make any more mistakes No, that makes sense...try reading the sentence

Re: Teaching a pig to sing (was Re: Intellectual output fromtheArab World)

2002-10-05 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: When we are discussing meaning of words, it is imperative that we rely upon dictionaries, because they are THE sources that tell us HOW A WORD IS USED. If I decide that blue ought to mean green, I can with justification be called wrong on that, because the *commonly

Re: Hey, can we can this?

2002-10-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Joe Hale wrote: Why can't you just kick Jeroen out of the group? For one, because we are tolerant. If we'd kick people of for disagreeing or for being pigheaded there wouldn't be that many people around to discuss with anymore. And I wouldn't wanne mis some of the more colorfull figures on

Re: cars, air

2002-10-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The greatest value in zero emission vehicles is in centralizing harmful emissions. Moving the exhaust source from the tailpipe to the smokestack gives the ability to control and position emissions so they don't impact urban airsheds in the same way. Although they may

cookies

2002-10-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
I don't get it. Why do they use these horrendous amounts of cookies in websites. It sure as hel is not for my convenience anyway. I just logged on to my internet based mail and had to aknowledge over 80 !! cookies to get in and even more to get out. Now that netscape is in the hands of AOL it

Re: American Dreams

2002-10-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
One person's dream can be another person's nightmare. ;o) Sonja GCV: Just couldn't resist that one. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: This Message Is For Male Brinellers Only

2002-10-09 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: J. van Baardwijk wrote: At 09:49 07-10-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Now, there are times when everything else is *not* being equal, and I have to unload and load the dishwasher 3 or 4 times in a row before Dan does both tasks, and then he'll either crow

Re: Baby's surname Re: U.S. drops leaflets warningIraqofcounterattack

2002-10-09 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Aha, the newlywed finally returns. I really have been missing you. We need more female voices before the testosterone takes over the list. I hope you are having a great time and aren't way too busy . but ... just out of some kind of personal curiosity er is there more then just the

Re: lemon

2002-10-13 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2318519.stm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l How do you mean forgotten way of contraceptive. In the books of Diana Gabeldon (sp?) that way of contraceptive gets mentioned a

Re: When does the screaming start?

2002-10-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: snipped service nightmare That was an hour ago. I'm calm now. You have my deepest sympathies. I've gone through various cycles of these kinds of experiences last year when we tried to move into this house for a couple of weeks. Had some successes but it cost me a lot of

Re: Hyperlink: Short subject descriptions please, was Re: E-grey

2002-10-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Reggie Bautista wrote: The Fool wrote: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20021013_691.html Sonja replied: We used to include a short description of what awaits at the other side of a link. It would be nice if this could be maintained out of a sense of courtesy for those of us who don't

Re: Scouted: Ginseng Berry For Diabetes And Obesity (andcholesterol?)

2002-10-16 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: -- Kevin Tarr wrote: This research is in mice, but if it proves effective for humans, it will be a great help. snip (MSN article, so advertisements present) Looks like the whole thing is an advertisement. They probably already have a warehouse full of Ginseng

Re: a chipping we will go

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: identification chip intended to be implanted in a person's body ...for security, financial and personal identification/safety applications. Now if only they also manage to develop that automated checkout some futuristics guy at a Philips demonstration envisioned, your shopping

Re: Temptation - Buyur - Jijo 7? 8? 9? SPOILERS

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/22/2002 7:17:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So we know the Jophur have landed and that the war is on. No, the Jophur _left_ an occupation force in Jijo. They took Biblos, and even some Gray Queens were said to

Re: a chipping we will go

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: I would *love* to be able to avoid unloading the cart. Sooner or later, whatever I have for Sammy to play with isn't good enough, and he has to hold one of the grocery items. And then there's some screaming when I have to take it out of his hands at the checkout.

Re: Temptation - Buyur - Jijo 7? 8? 9? SPOILERS

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/23/2002 1:10:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ships have to tap into hyperspace to land or take of. It is mentioned in HR. One of the occupants aboard Harries station flying to Jijo piloted by Kaa on the

Re: a chipping we will go

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: If I could still afford to go there I probably would. But now that I have more free time (well sort of) I'm getting shorter in cash, so I have to shop around a bit to keep the books balanced and still get the nicer stuff, I don't wanne live without. Reminds

Re: Getting silly Re: brin: war

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: I find eating hot salsa and drinking plenty of hot tea, along with 'steaming,' effective treatment for many a stuffy nose. (And with allergies ~ 9 months of the year, I have plenty of practice! :P ) I only have a good cure for a really bad cold. It involves a hot tub

Re: Proposed new etiquette guidieline

2002-10-23 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Nick Arnett wrote: Everyone, I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette. Here it is: Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies until you see if you have

Re: test

2002-10-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: At 07:26 PM 10/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: test Feeling testy, are we? ;) Julia Very. Verizon is switching to secure mail. Oh, we don't support Outlook 97, you need Outlook 98. Well I don't want to buy Outlook 98.Your changes are

Re: brin: traffic cameras

2002-10-18 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20021017-78921861.htm AAA pulls its support for traffic cameras By Brian DeBose THE WASHINGTON TIMES One of the foremost advocates of traffic safety has withdrawn support for the District's traffic camera enforcement program after city

test

2002-10-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
I've now read all messages in this thread. One off, I can right away say that the total thread makes me feel very queasy. It looks like a 'witch' hunt is sweeping brin-l and everybody is dancing around the fire in a kind of fever, very eager to get some one fried no matter the cost. For people who

Re: Question for everyone

2002-10-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
J. van Baardwijk wrote: The only good Giorgis is a silent Giorgis Wrong! We as a list extend the same curtesy to you as we do to John. We tolerate everybodies opinion, even if we think it is far off. We are not into shutting anybody up even if some people would like to do so very much. So even

Re: Parenting advise from an old man who's done a lot of parenting

2002-10-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dan Minette wrote: I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting advise for those list members who have small children. I've noticed three things from my near quarter century of parenting. 1) The single most difficult task for parents to teach children is to accept

Re: test

2002-10-30 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: De : Deborah Harrell [mailto:harrellmedleg;yahoo.com] And after further consideration, I have to agree with Erik that anonymous dinging should be severely penalized. If allowed at all. And you ought to try talking it out offlist first [*politely*], as

Server mish mash

2002-10-30 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
I just picked up my mail and I got over 100 of the brin-l mail with over half dating back as far as saturday. This is even more mysterious since I did pick up my mail yesterday. So unless everybody on this list is delayed something is very wrong. I'm just not sure where the bug is. Sonja

Re: Dinging plans (was RE: test)

2002-10-30 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: I'd have separate scores for dings received an dings given. If Erik's codes are applied to dings received, we could have a code for dingers along the lines of Tolerant, Capricious and Opinion Police Now *that* would be interesting... ;o) Sonja

Re: Dinging plans (was RE: test)

2002-10-30 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: Maybe we could also have things that decrease your ding number. Not dongs (I give you the dong! :-) ummm, tips or nods? Or you could call them kisses (or carresses, or ...) and then the codes for people who use them would mean friendly, promiscuous, and real whore. It

Re: Some things are too good to last

2002-10-31 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
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Re: Server mish mash

2002-10-31 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:07:42PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: I just picked up my mail and I got over 100 of the brin-l mail with over half dating back as far as saturday. This is even more mysterious since I did pick up my mail yesterday. So unless

Re: news: Iraq Sets an Example in Computerizing Its NationalElections

2002-10-31 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Alberto Monteiro wrote: snipped article Is it just me or does the text of this article seem awfully familiar. Lots of it were identical to the text for the other article of Brazil setting an example in computerized elections. Sonja GCU Copy/Paste

Re: Chocolate chip cookie recipe

2002-11-05 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: p.s. the same sheet of paper also has recipes for sugar cookies (which I thought at the time came out a little dry, but everyone else liked them just fine) and peanut butter cookies (which no one found fault with). Let me know if either of *those* ought to be posted. Of

Re: US Unilateralism

2002-11-05 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ritu Ko wrote: Well, the meaning was clear in any case. But the problem is that I don't see how I could have changed the way it was perceived. I mean, I know why I wrote the above comment, I included a 'g' and ':)' to indicate I was joking Would ';)' have been a better emoticon? I've

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: I consider banner ads to be a necessary evil, but the advertisers routinely abuse this by coding pop-up ads that can spawn up to 30 different browser windows, each with defensive coding that opens more windows when you close it. This has crashed my computer on more

Re: Server mish mash

2002-11-14 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ronn Blankenship wrote: At 06:27 AM 10/30/02, Erik Reuter wrote: Have I been dinging too much? :-) I dunno. Have you been leaning on a doorbell button? We don't have a 'ding, dong' we have a 'ting'. Sonja ;o) ___

Re: Guatam's energy levels (was: Re: My return and baseball)

2002-11-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Well, having been on both sides, the one where I did 70+ hours a week and the one being a housewife with my own schedule, I can safely say, that the busier you are, the more you get done. Somehow you become very good at doing things on the run, increasing efficiency, matching scedules, fitting

[Recipe] Chocolate cheese cake, Re: Grocery Shopping

2002-11-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Hey, Julia, pt ... don't tell Jeroen but I've got a recipe for chocolate no bake cheesecake. Is that OK with you? (Haven't got a clue as to what Oreo is.) But I've got a recipe that is dead easy to make. Filling: Use good quality whipped wip cream (maybe add something to keep it stable, dr.

Re: Got back from early voting a little while ago

2002-11-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Each person in the US is governed at both the state and federal level. Lucky Bastards :-) In Brazil, we are g*verned at federal, state and municipal [the polis, or city] level. Which means that things that must be done aren't, and taxes are

Re: [Recipe] Chocolate cheese cake, Re: Grocery Shopping

2002-11-19 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ticia wrote: Steve Sloan II wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Haven't got a clue as to what Oreo is. Oreos are a brand of round chocolate sandwich cookies with white creamy stuff (mostly lard, I think) in the middle. Hydrox is another brand that makes a similar kind

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-11-19 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: Sonja, would you like to get hardware as an anniversary gift? :) As a matter of fact I do get tools/hardware/software/DIY books or anything else usually considered as not really done/apropriate for the woman you love for any and all occasions. And I for one really love

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-11-20 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds??? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:20:44 +0100 Julia Thompson wrote: Sonja, would you like to get hardware as an anniversary gift? :) As a matter of fact I do get

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-11-20 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ronn Blankenship wrote: ¹AFAIK, it was the top-of-the-line available here at the time²: it came with the flexible-shaft drive and a pile of other stuff. (The box is in the tool shed at the moment, and I can't remember exactly how the set was described, much less any model numbers we could

Re: Fwd: David Brin question

2002-11-20 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
teve Sloan II wrote: I got this email today. Does anybody here have any idea where this qote might appear in UPLIFT WAR? Subject: David Brin question Date:Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:13:49 -0800 From:Ben Sibelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr. Sloan: I like your

Re: Cameras

2002-11-20 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Bryon Daly wrote in a response to a quistion from Kevin: Alternately, get a high-quality digital camera (I wouldn't go for less than 3-4 megapixels) for its computer convenience. Read some reviews first, though, because their picture quality can vary greatly. For info on ditigital

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-11-22 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ronn Blankenship wrote: At 03:25 AM 11/20/02, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: snipped various tool stuff I so envy you. :o) What do you give a guy that isn't a crack-ass DIY-er? A book on Home Repair for Absolute Beginners? ;-) That would mean I'd be prepared to let Jeroen use my

English question, Re: DING!

2002-11-22 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Doug wrote: I suggest a better way to deal with this kind of behavior is to ignore it completely, excepting extreme cases. Now my English isn't that good. But somehow I feel that use of excepting is wrong here? I'd have used exempting or something else entirely but never excepting. Althought

Googlism, a bit of fun among the grimm

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
From another list: For those with a vaguely notable web presence. http://www.googlism.com/ Sonja is sick of spineless men was the first one that came up for filling in my first name. I wonder what that's supposed to mean. :o) Another remarkable one is that 'Sonja is a woman on a

Ilana, Nick, anybody?

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
I've notice that messagessent by Ilana in respons to a digest

Re: moderation is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:40:05AM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Shut up, scum bag!!! I am not a bag! Logically it follows that you thus admit to being scum ;o) duck and hide Sonja PS: After all the verbal clobberings I have had from Erik I just couldn't resist. :o)

Re: Googlism, a bit of fun among the grimm

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: Ooo! Neat! Marvin Long is too obscure, but marvin... is god This is ambitious. But I'm a non believer so I can pretend you don't exist. But in combination with this... is controlled by a program I must say we are in for a hell of a lot of trouble if MicroSoft had

Re: stereotyping is evil, and why it must be eradicated

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 12:17 AM 11/26/02 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: Well, if you define theocracy to include the above, then you simply have created the new problem of defining the word that distinguishes the viewpoint of desiring an immediate and earthly theocracy from an

Re: Scouted: Googlism

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Reggie Bautista wrote: and the one that finally made me laugh out loud: reggie is available at stud to approved bitches My wife *definitely* doesn't approve of this last one... Finally a thread that makes me chuckle instead of curse behind the computer when reading listmail ;o) Sonja

Re: [LINK] AAAIIIIEEEE!!!!! The horror! The horror!

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Argh... I nominate Adam to be shot on site for making me go to that link. That morbid kind of curiosity isn't good for your health as proven thus. Sonja K. Feete wrote: Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/msparby/iMovieTheater5.html Thank you, Adam, for posting the most truly

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-11-26 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Ronn Blankenship wrote: At 03:25 AM 11/20/02, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: snipped various tool stuff I so envy you. :o) What do you give a guy that isn't a crack-ass DIY-er? A book on Home Repair

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-11-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: I think Julia did not take a good look at the items I suggested. Might I suggest she click on the See larger picture link or read the reviewers' descriptions? (If she does, I think she will see why the shipping restrictions are not a problem . . . ) ROTFLMAO I

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reggie Bautista asked: Kneem, should the Republican party be eradicated because of the illegal actions of Richard Nixon? Should the Democratic party be eradicated because of the illegal actions of Bill Clinton?

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jeroen wrote: However, given the worship of the Almighty Dollar by some people, one cannot help but wonder if Capitalism qualifies as a religion... :-) Not Capitalism, but just one perverted sect of capitalism that believes that the dollar is worth anything

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dan Minette wrote: One needs to look at sources that support one's view with the same critical eye as those that oppose it. Technique is a good starting point. nitpick I think that that is scientifically incorrect. You first need to try to disprove your own point in all possible ways to be

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
K. Feete wrote: Superstition and irrational beliefs occur with or without religion. Witness Skinner's superstitious pigeons, or my conviction that mentioning the fact that it's raining if I want it to rain will make the rain stop. grin I thought that's what umbrellas are for. Bring one and

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-12-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: Still haven't started yet, waiting for the mad season to be over with: Sonja, what do you mean about the weight of the plaster replaced, 700kg? Do you mean that 50kg came off a wall that had to be replaced with something else, or that was truly the weight of the material

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-12-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: At 10:43 AM 11/28/2002 +1000, you wrote: ...but the summers are horrid. The house has complete exposure east, west, and south. Sometime days it was 85 at 5am inside, while 70 outside. I know about getting the heat out, but sometimes can't. To keep your house as cool as

Re: Scouted: Women prefer HDTV to Diamonds???

2002-12-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: I like the idea of panels similar to the ones for laminated floors. But I think those would be harder to install, gravity working against you instead of for you. :) Well that is just it. Because of their size and weight they are really easy to handle. Maybe I should

Re: Scouted: Dumb Thief. Really Dumb.

2002-12-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jon Gabriel wrote: The 18-year-old man was arrested near the east coast city of East London after police saw him rob a woman at gun point on her way to church, police spokeswoman Michelle Matroos said. They searched him, but they didn't get (her) cell phone back. While they were in the

Re: moderation is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-12-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:33:51PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Logically it follows that you thus admit to being scum ;o) duck and hide Logically it follows that you are a duck! No it doesn't. A bunny maybe, but not a duck. 'Your logic is flawed mister

Re: time travel is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-12-03 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/26/2002 7:37:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Strangulation is a lot less bloody than doing *that*. Geez. ;) Julia A woman's hair should be long enough to strangle her man

Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-04 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Nick Arnett wrote: Reasons for blocking acces for a valued member of this community Let me say this: I fully realise that Nick has the absolute right and power to do this. It is afterall his list and he can do as he pleases wether I like it or not. But I just wish he'd be honest about the

Assumptions Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-04 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked Nick Arnett wrote: Reasons for blocking acces for a valued member

Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-05 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: Please accept my apologies for this - I have started sending at least 5 replies to Jeroen for every spam I get, and he has apparently, through a simple (and childish) trick, ensured they come to the list as a whole. I don't think it was intended as a trick. And I

Tails as the newest 'fashion fad'?, Re: meeces

2002-12-05 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: I wouldn't mind having a *prehensile* tail. A useless drooping one wouldn't be so useful, though. It could be the newest fashion statement however. Comparing ta ... oops ... ah well. Let's not go there. blush Sonja ___

For your entertainment, Re: Assumptions

2002-12-05 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Russell Chapman wrote: Russell Chapman wrote: Sonja GCU smileys are our friends And that's the best news I've heard all day... I'd hate to miss out on your next plumbing adventure. I'm waiting to hear that having sorted out the water supply, the drains are all broken, or the floor

Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Jean-Louis Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:43:27 -0500 At 21:26 2002-12-04 -0600, Marvin wrote: At this point I'd say that if someone disagrees, it's his obligation to say so. Marvin Long

Combined response to Re: So how much is the participation on amailing list worth? and Re: What we cannot stand-smooth as she goes

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dan Minette wrote answering a question from Julia: You didn't get the email threatening you and Nick with a $1,000,000 lawsuit and any damage to your career that he can arrange? I couldn't help but notice that this type of response is in crass contrast with the kind of intentions implied in

Re: For your entertainment, Re: Assumptions

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 11:51 PM 12/5/02 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: So that brings us on to the toilet. It has to be installed into more or less the space where the old toilet was, only now it is a hanging toilet I'm not sure what you mean by a hanging toilet . . . can you

Re: Stag Film Serenade

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Robert J. Chassell wrote: How can you take a film originally shot in 2D and show it in 3D? AI programmers have written code that figures out 3D from the camera movement between 2D images taken for a 2D movie. Others have written code for a still camera with moving objects. As far as I

Re: Combined response to Re: So how much is the participation on amailing list worth? and Re: What we cannot stand-smooth as she goes

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:20:24AM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: To me it felt like a conscious effort to further discredit a listmember's reputation beyond any possibility of repair fully well knowing that that listmember is unable to publicly defend

Re: Combined response to Re: So how much is the participationonamailing list worth? and Re: What we cannot stand-smooth as she goes

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:31:37AM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: I am all for this, but shouldn't this also be applied to all others on this list? I for instance am sick and tired of being insulted time and again I do apply the standard to all others

Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: So just for the record I also clearly remember Erik for one being particularly nasty and very childish in harrasing Jeroen even after several repeated requests from a lot of listmembers to cut it out and leave Jeroen alone. Strangly

Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-06 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Erik Reuter wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:53:41PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: Did this happen since the list was moved onto Nick's mccmedia.com server? That's irrelevant, because the posts she is referring to were not equivalent to what Jeroen was doing anyway. I made a few teasing

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