Me thinks you sided the death warrant for ME. تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
-----Original Message----- From: archytas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Delusions There's a legacy list of nearly 2,500 banned members. Gabbs could start her new democratic venture of telling people what to do with that. On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 6:44:35 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > You get the patent then Chris. We'll go to one of those bars with a two > gallon minimum and a fruit based cocktail selection for the lady. Gabby > can play the role of the jilted female inventor, forgotten in hisstory, > slipping vodka into her prune juice, as we fight off international > investors to keep the authenticity of the product intact. At least until > she goes to the powder room and we run off the the bags of cash. > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 5:17:03 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > If we score the patent, drinks are on me! > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does that mean you accept our foolproof methodology to read the details > carefully and not only follow the sweet sound before you marry? Chris, I'm > sure you always need money too, let's go and have this patented! > Chacka-chacka!! > Am 12.02.2015 18:04 schrieb "archytas" <[email protected]>: > > How utterly super to see the children play. Reminds me of being taught > how to use the police national computer in 1976 and playing trains with > another bored terminal operator. > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 3:38:36 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: > > Oh how romantic, you two. Glad you found your room with Mary Moll. :) > > 2015-02-12 15:55 GMT+01:00 archytas <[email protected]>: > > There's an extra aye in there Moll. > > If you think of some of the external processes I investigate and the > internal ones you have explicated (not that either of us is restricted to > either), there is a lot of common ground. Bifurcation is often a 'false > split'. > > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 1:00:45 PM UTC, Molly wrote: > > Aye, aye, aye > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:29:51 AM UTC-5, archytas wrote: > > Merrie Monk is still brewed by Marstons. Technically a mild, 4.5 abv but > seems to hit harder. Craft beers from micro breweries don't appeal to me > much - we have one round the corner (Banks) with about 7 different beers > that all taste the same. Mostly badge engineering over here, by Interbrew > - even they are now ab-inbev co the world's largest brewer. Boddies is now > part of that chain. I swear they have even screwed Stella Artois and have > been advertising it as 'reassuringly expensive'. > They make Bud too. Back in the day, I met the CEO of Stella Artois - he > was tea total. Kind enough to stock my hotel fridge with product though. > > I'm waiting for the time African beer gets marketed here with small print > 'warning: contains crocodile bile and battery acid' under the Mumbojawless > brand. Beer, apart from a few small brewers, tends to taste better and > cleaner abroad. Nordic friends now get ratted on Lithuanian hooch before > meeting at Ziggy's to sip expensive beer before piling back to the barbecue > at Sven and Olga's to finish off on Estonian imports. > > I see our new information manager is settling in nicely, already in a room > of her own talking to the walls. The gibberish she has to come up with is > difficult to learn but she has language skills to refine it to total > misinformation with that paranoid edge that keeps people on their toes lest > they slack into actual conversation. I doubt we could have appointed a > better one trick pony. One visit to her room by the information > commissioners and we will never see them again. > > Molly has done nearly all the work. The plan, of course, was always to > lure Gabby to this room and let her exhaust her poisons until no one else > is left, with the last one out pulling the door tightly shut. > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 12:42:29 AM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > Oh man, Merry Monk is one of my favorites. I'm a sucker for Tripels...more > so for Quadrupels. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:40 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Boddingtons' was the favourite bitter back in cop/army days. It was weak > abv, amber, creamy and nectar. Since then big brewers took over, closed > the old brewery and ruined the flavour.darkened the colour and the flavour > went malty. Brings a tear to my eye to drink the much now. Holt's bitter > was the classic though. Smelled like an old kangaroo's jock-strap or > something Gabby throws in her cauldron. You had to get the first pint down > holding your breath, By about the fourth, it was all cream nectar and you > just had to make it eight. It was all live beer in 36 gallon barrels back > then, manipulated into cellars by gangs of muscular dwarfs, watched over > for days by a loving but grisly landlord who sank the first edible pint > himself just to let us know who was in charge. Then came pasteurised beer > and lager - and shameful sights like me and Railway Frank arm-wrestling for > the last pint of Merry Monk. I won, but had to let him have the beer to > make up for that. > > > On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 11:42:45 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > I'm enjoying a Boddie's now; it's no Younger's 2, but it's got a nice > creamy head. I can't find enough of the bitters here though; IPA's are the > frat boy craft beer of choice. > > My good mates live on a 42' single mast now; the children are gone, and > land held no attraction. I've still got another eight years or so before > that becomes a possibility. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:34 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just right for a transportation sentence then. Used to sail. My balance > is crap now. Flying a desk just ain't it. When I was more actively > engaged, some of the best parts involved solitude. I miss that. > Loneliness is not the same thing. Bolton pubs have an air of desperation > now, so I don't bother. The ale is usually cack too. That old fuggy muggy > behind the sanctity of the pub door has faded to disinfectant and stale > food smells. And I used to smoke when drinking. Not the same without. > Plus 'young punk' violence is much worse now. > > I still get out to sea a couple of times a year on a mate's fishing > smack. His quota days have just increased from 4 to 5 days a month. > There's no living in it any more. Due out with him at the end of the month > and will probably resume normal beer service then. Theakston's Old > Peculiar and another black beer, Younger's No 2 are a treat when properly > creamy. You'd still be sucking the stuff in from that facial appendage the > following day. > > > On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 11:02:09 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > My pony tail and beard are built for the sea, but I skipper a desk chair, > more to my chagrin. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:52 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who are you calling an old pirate, Blackbeard? And what kind of nancy-boy > pubs where they let woman in other than to be barmaids 'ave ye been > drinkin' in? > > > On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 10:28:39 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > Only to an old pirate. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:26 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed that a colon and a right parenthesis look like a > symbol for a cut-throat razor? :) > > > On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:19:52 UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > No justifications, dear Gabs. Just a correction. :) > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:58 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh yes, What, who, whose questions are being ommitted is quite telling. > There is a geometry in that too, of course. I explicitly said no blaming, > and you come up with justifications?! For what? Yes, we were close to my > wish come true, but then Facil appeared and it all started again. There is > nothing I can do about it from where I sit. ;) > > Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015 schrieb Chris Jenkins : > > Oh, how quickly time muddles the recollection...perhaps you should go back > and review some of those posts before I left. It was for the same reason > Craig did, and had nothing to do with the legacy nature of an email list. I > was overloaded between job and family, and simply couldn't keep up with the > volume of communication (a strike against your assertion I left because I > knew it was an outdated format). There were hundreds of posts, some of them > quite combative (*ahem*), and any action taken by mods to keep the list > adhering to its original intent was met with a hearty round of "fuck you > matey". It was draining. > > My goodbye: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/minds-ey > e/by$20chris/minds-eye/ZQB5vLJ2rSI/0GbRK-9nz-AJ > > Note that I put it to the group to decide, specifically because there was > no other way to effectively determine any sort of self governance, and I > didn't feel I had the right to make an arbitrary decision without input. > > You promptly attacked every facet of my decision (and I expected no less). > There was a long and robust conversation with a ton of familiar faces (most > missing now). Your first vote was for a natural death. Have you gotten your > wish? > > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:37 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Over a thousand members, 5 actually post? > > > This question coming from you? YOU! Oh come on, Chrissy baby! This is an > outdated format here that doesn't generate much traffic anymore. You know > that, that`s your job to know that, that`s why you quit the mod job here! > No one is blaming you for that but don´t play the innocent here! You > introduced no transparent polling as to who should become your successor, > but lay down your crown to the one who threw his hat in the ring, a method > acceptable for the queen also. Nice try, dear. > > 2015-02-11 17:34 GMT+01:00 Chris Jenkins <[email protected]>: > > Yep, he passed the bar some time ago, which is a big part of why he no > longer had time for these conversations. > > He's not alone in that, apparently. Over a thousand members, 5 actually > post? > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Such charm as ever Gabby. The term paedophile is not well taken here and > may really insult Allan and make him sad. > > ... -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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