Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:59:54 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Beer club xmas london meeting
At 10:28 AM 13/11/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:22:28 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Beer club xmas london meeting >>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:57:55 +0800 >>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: [LIB] Beer club xmas london meeting >>At 04:53 AM 13/11/2001 -0800, you wrote: >>>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:48:52 >>>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Subject: Beer club xmas london meeting >>> >>>People - a last call for entries for the two xmas london beer club meets... >> >>I'm still a little lost ... can someone confirm 'London beer club' == 'Long Island >floating beer club' == 'Libretto Beer Club' == 'Libretterati club'?? > >The cannonical answer: > >'$DESCRIPTOR' = an optional indicator, e.g. special event, time of year, nature of >meeting etc. > >'$BEER' = any beverage, alcholic or otherwise, to the taste of the individual member. >Also includes food, if desired. > >'$LOCATION' = a variable defining the location in which $BEER is transferred from the >outside of a $CLUB member to the inside of a $CLUB member. > >'$CLUB' = a grouping of (usually) living beings, sentient or otherwise. Membership of >$CLUB is strictly restricted to people who either >o own any member of the species $LIBRETTO >o have previously owned a member of the species $LIBRETTO but for some perverse >reason no longer do so >o would like to own a member of the species $LIBRETTO >o once saw a picture of a member of the species $LIBRETTO and think it's rather a >cool device Right ... we've defined our variables (although $LIBRETTO appears to be a constant ...) >Therefore, semantically, 'long island beer club' = 'permanent floating beer club' = >'london xmas beer club' = 'paris wine club' = 'ozzie throw another prawn on the >barbie club' Umm ... well my question was, were they the same entity not were they about the same thing. Of course, clarifying my question would reduce the humor value of Neil's so carefully constructed reply but what the heck ... hehe ... so lets see if I have this straight: $CLUB = $DESCRIPTOR || $BEER || $LOCATION where $CLUB is as defined above will be satisfied by all the clubs I referred to above (despite $BEER being null in one case)? >Ok? Perhaps ... ;-) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
