Snort cough gasp. Tears running down my face. Har! Shucks Gus
it hurts to get hit by lightning!
Good post Rick. I needed that and I am still grining!
You've heard the joke about inmates in the
prison that just numbered all their jokes so if they wanted to tell a funny,
they could just tap out the number on the bars and everyone else could either
laugh or boo or say "I never heard that one before!"
To save bandwidth we could do the same with
Rangernet common discussions and problems. Number the Subjects:
1. NTC
2. Women in Rangers
3. Vegemite
4. Vegemite and Rootbeer
5. Grits
6. Halloween
7. The Patrol Method
8. Banter on Rangernet
9. Christians and Drinking
10.The New Program
Then number the responses:
1. I'm for it, brother
2. I'm against it brother
3. I'M AGAINST IT BROTHER
4. I'M AGAINST IT *****
5. I'M AGAINST IT ***** AND SO IS GOD
6. Yum/Yes/Zesty/Yea
7. Yucky/No/Not-Zesty/Boo
8. Not in America
9. Only in America
10. etc.
And Reasons:
1. The Bible tells me so.
2. God told me so
3. I say so
4. Just try it and you'll know it's bad
5. Just try it and you'll know it's good
6. Sound right to me
We could post them in the Net Manners/Rhinocerous Hide
letter that we receive periodically. then newcomers could be spared the pain
they could otherwise endure when first joining our group, and we could break
them in slowly. Kind of get them hooked you know, breaking the code. A normal
RangerNet communique would then look like this:
Subject: 1
Message: 1
It would be concise and to the point. Very much a GUY-thing.
We could do even better by including everything in the subject line like
this:
Subject: 3:7:4
And if you are the wordy type your could give
references:
Subject: 9:2:1
Message Matt. 5:16
This procedure could be expanded adinfinitum (although that
shouldn't be necessary) by someone smarter than myself as long as we kept a
list somewhere of the accepted usage.
Now how is this for a waste of bandwidth?! Sorry, just had
time to waste. (or did I ?)
10:1:5
Rick Barnhouse
SMDTC
