PS : Pat's from Mansfield ( not Derby < spit > ) ;-) and proud of it
Pat. On 2 Feb, 19:56, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote: > dennis bartlett wrote: > > Hi Mike > > > Contact Prospectus - they're a recruitment house specialising in the > > Pick / Universe / jBase etc world in London - you'll have to look up > > the phone number as I can't remember it, but they're in Popes Lane > > possibly Ealing. > > > The owner's name is Elkie Holland - just tell her Dennis Bartlett said > > she's able to find anyone a great job. She works both UK and > > Australia, so the world's your oyster. > > > London may be expensive, but do yourself a favour and be careful about > > anywhere north of Milton Keyne - it's really drab out there, except > > Edinburgh is quite fun :-) > > What a particularly stupid and moronic thing to say. > > You might at least spell Milton Keynes correctly before you deride 60% > of the associated land mass - assuming that is, that you know of > anywhere else in Scotland, otherwise more like 85%. You obviously are > not aware that I am from Yorkshire, a place you must fly over on your > way to Edinburgh from London and without which you would not have had > accurate longitude, frictionless gears, a recent poet laureate, bonfire > night, and more importantly, Michael Palin and his hilarious piss taking > of Yorkshire (well, Barnstonworth). > > I'll be sure to tell Elkie that Dennis Bartlett is a peculiarly stupid > example of the inability to read the posting guidelines, wherein it asks > you to at least pay passing attention to culturally sensitive issues. I > didn't necessarily have the North of England in mind at the time, but I > think it qualifies, given that 4 of the original jBASE programming team > were from well North of Milton Bloody Keynes (did you catch that 's' > this time?) and that there wasn't anyone else involved in writing it. > While none of the other 3 are as Northern as myself, and are therefore > classified as weak southern buggers, you have still included their > semi-northern origins in your flippancy. I am sure that Pat (Derby), > Greg (Bloody Nottingham) and Alan (Scouse B_____d) are suitably > impressed by your eloquence and are happy that you use their programming > every day of your life. > > Your post of course is indelibly etched into the Internet, and future > historians will no doubt be surprised that the world at the time > consisted of crustaceans in the south of England and the world's best > bread stealers; rightly sent there from England for daring to object to > the London based government keeping them in abject poverty. And we still > wonder why they beat the crap out of us at ______ (fill in at your > leisure and apologies in advance to my Aussie mates for not taking the > time for a thorough piss taking with the usual reciprocation.) > > It is of course purely an accident that Douglas Adams wasn't from > Yorkshire; he would have been, but he missed the bus. If he had been > from Yorkshire, which he wasn't (see earlier) he would likely have told > you to go stick your head in a fish. Being more polite than Mr. Adams, I > will merely say that up until now, I quite liked South Africa other than > the airport taxis in Jo'burgh. Now that I correctly conclude from one > example that everyone from the vicinity is bloody stupid (it must have > been the Bloody Dutch (c) Michael Caine [also not a Yorkshireman]), I > guess I will have to say that the best thing to come out of Gonubie is > highway 2 and it's a pity that Slartibartfast didn't have time for the > Fjords this time around. > > Jim > Aka: Northern B_____d > > PS: Don't worry about replying to this :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
