Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
Har! The very first thing I learned about PDML ... before PESOs GESOs; before cormorants; before pun threads, H2G2 Monty Python quotes; before dark-side lens buggery Cotty's hat; before the PUG Grandfather Mountain ... The very first thing I learned about PDML was (and I quote), Marnie,

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013, Alan C wrote: Proves a point. This is probably the busiest list in the world! Not hardly. Take a look at the Python list, for example: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/ -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6http://rule6.info/

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 20/4/13, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: Mines at 9453. You can't read them all. Like looking at light from the stars, Paul is catching up with the PDML. He's currently reading messages from 1862. ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Bob W
On 21 Apr 2013, at 10:45, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 20/4/13, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: Mines at 9453. You can't read them all. Like looking at light from the stars, Paul is catching up with the PDML. He's currently reading messages from 1862. ;-)

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Eactivist
LOL. Drat, I should have kept my mouth shut, because I'd almost forgotten that. Yup, that was when Doug had to manually restore me back to list after the list software had dropped me off. But that wasn't the real problem, somehow he was being pinged every time my PDML email was bounced

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Eactivist
Not really, but some tend to get really chatty at times. Marnie aka Doe :-) Oops, that should be some OF US... In a message dated 4/20/2013 10:41:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, c...@lantic.net writes: Proves a point. This is probably the busiest list in the world! Alam C -- PDML

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 21/4/13, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I've always wanted a leather-covered body with a rising front. You sick bastard. If you find one, let me know. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Producion --www.seeingeye.tv

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread steve harley
on 2013-04-20 18:21 Rick Womer wrote After a week on the inpatient service followed by a week away at a meeting and a very busy week catching up, the unread message counter on my Yahoo account said 999+. Now, after an hour of going through messages, it says 926. there is no need to read

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Rick Womer
: Sinking feeling... on 2013-04-20 18:21 Rick Womer wrote After a week on the inpatient service followed by a week away at a meeting and a very busy week catching up, the unread message counter on my Yahoo account said 999+. Now, after an hour of going through messages, it says 926

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-21 Thread Bill
On 21/04/2013 11:11 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 21/4/13, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I've always wanted a leather-covered body with a rising front. You sick bastard. If you find one, let me know. When we do that beer, I will definitely bring my wife. bill -- PDML

Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Rick Womer
After a week on the inpatient service followed by a week away at a meeting and a very busy week catching up, the unread message counter on my Yahoo account said 999+. Now, after an hour of going through messages, it says 926. Sigh. Rick   http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Jeffery Johnson
Well now Rick when everyone replies to this it will be back up to the 999+ mark :) Jeffery On 4/20/2013 7:21 PM, Rick Womer wrote: After a week on the inpatient service followed by a week away at a meeting and a very busy week catching up, the unread message counter on my Yahoo account said

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Charles Robinson
On Apr 20, 2013, at 19:21 , Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: After a week on the inpatient service followed by a week away at a meeting and a very busy week catching up, the unread message counter on my Yahoo account said 999+. Now, after an hour of going through messages, it says

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Eactivist
That's what the delete key is for. When I come back after being away for a while, I shut my eyes to ignore threads I really MIGHT want to read someday (which never comes), and just delete everything except the two months prior to my return. Be brave, you can do it. Marnie aka Doe :-)

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Stenquist
Mines at 9453. You can't read them all. Paul via phone On Apr 20, 2013, at 8:21 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: After a week on the inpatient service followed by a week away at a meeting and a very busy week catching up, the unread message counter on my Yahoo account said 999+.

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Eactivist
I guess I should add, even after a massive deleting when I came back, my count is now at 4894. Marnie ;-) AOL objects when it gets up to 5,000. So it really objected when it was near 10,000. In a message dated 4/20/2013 5:29:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, eactiv...@aol.com writes:

Re: Sinking feeling...

2013-04-20 Thread Alan C
Proves a point. This is probably the busiest list in the world! Alam C -- From: Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:21 AM To: Pentax List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Sinking feeling... After a week on the inpatient service

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-11 Thread syb vis
RTR could use more of these youngsters in their editors' crew. Is it allowed to have a 13 year old kid go to work? In the Netherlands, they would have to wait till the kid is 16 years old... Syb 2007/8/11, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe the child was the only one who was surprised...

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-11 Thread Igor Roshchin
Syb, Are you mixing RTR and Reuters? RTR has nothing to do with it. Read more attentively: RTR was showing a program on North Pole expdition without making any claims about this particular footage. According to the article in Guardian, RTR first broadcasted it several hours before arrival of the

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-11 Thread syb vis
Thank yhou, Igor. I mixed them up, indeed. But that's because I used to work for a radio station. There, we used to write RTR when we ment Reuters. So the story, in all its strangeness, is clear to me, but I used the wrong term. Ouch, for a radio reporter ;-( Syb 2007/8/11, Igor Roshchin [EMAIL

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-11 Thread David J Brooks
On 8/10/07, Digital Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/08/07, Feroze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://crossthebreeze.com/2006/08/07/not-enough-drama/ LOL, that's such a crap edit, they should fire the guy ;-) I showed him how to do that.:-) Dave -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-11 Thread John Sessoms
From: syb vis Thanks for posting! Did you notice this sentence: in August last year in which it [RTR] published an image by a freelancer of Israeli bombings in Lebanon that had been dramatised using photo manipulation, with the addition of smoke rising from allegedly burning buildings. Is

Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread Feroze
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The mistake was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy contacted a local newspaper to tell

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread syb vis
Thanks for posting! Did you notice this sentence: in August last year in which it [RTR] published an image by a freelancer of Israeli bombings in Lebanon that had been dramatised using photo manipulation, with the addition of smoke rising from allegedly burning buildings. Is there still a mirror

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Reuters credibility hit rock bottom some time ago, apparently they've decided to drill deeper... Feroze wrote: News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread Feroze
http://crossthebreeze.com/2006/08/07/not-enough-drama/ syb vis wrote: Thanks for posting! Did you notice this sentence: in August last year in which it [RTR] published an image by a freelancer of Israeli bombings in Lebanon that had been dramatised using photo manipulation, with the

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread Feroze
sad...what really caught my attention was that a kid caught them out, didn't anyone else notice that the emperor had no clothes on? Feroze P. J. Alling wrote: Reuters credibility hit rock bottom some time ago, apparently they've decided to drill deeper... Feroze wrote: News agency

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 11/08/07, Feroze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://crossthebreeze.com/2006/08/07/not-enough-drama/ LOL, that's such a crap edit, they should fire the guy ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread P. J. Alling
They did, for dishonesty, they should have fired the editor for stupidity... Digital Image Studio wrote: On 11/08/07, Feroze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://crossthebreeze.com/2006/08/07/not-enough-drama/ LOL, that's such a crap edit, they should fire the guy ;-) --

Re: Reuters gets that sinking feeling

2007-08-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Maybe the child was the only one who was surprised... Feroze wrote: sad...what really caught my attention was that a kid caught them out, didn't anyone else notice that the emperor had no clothes on? Feroze P. J. Alling wrote: Reuters credibility hit rock bottom some time ago,