At 03:23 PM 10/27/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Yeah, just like the time some doofus from the cable company threw his
stuff into the backyard and went over the fence while his buddy came to
knock on the door; I was *supposed* to put the dogs out and leave about
2 minutes after they had shown up, but
Doug wrote:
Brazil hasn't had a lefty in power for nearly forty years, according to
the article below.
??? The current president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, _is_ a lefty.
Alberto Monteiro
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On
Behalf Of Doug
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:42 PM
To: New Brin-l Address
Subject: Anonymous dings
I don't really like the idea of anonymous dings but if they are allowed
the penalty should
From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:vze3xykq;verizon.net]
You mean people owned a piece of property but they had no
control over what
was being done with it, for the sake of a phone line? Sounds
like another
example that people are just renting the ground from the government.
My guess is there
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From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: cars, air L3er
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:42:23PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Are you sure,
at
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004691.html
I
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Is it possible that they have separate neighborhood nodes for the digital
cable and cable modem services, allowing them to provide more bandwidth for
each individual user? Is this what you mean by headends?
It is possible, but
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:02:21PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
From what I've read in Physics Today, it is going to be very hard to
squeeze out added efficiencies. Everything that I see indicates
that we need to do a lot of fundamental research before there is a
breakthrough. So, money
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From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: cars, air L3er
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:02:21PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
From what I've read in Physics Today, it is going to be very hard to
In a message dated 10/25/2002 3:02:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Especially if you down an entire fifth of scotch in that manner.
De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Medievalbk;aol.com]
Funny. Why do I think a Jophur would prefer vodka or uso [sp?]
Back from the
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: cars, air L3er
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From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject:
At 22:54 27-10-2002 +1100, Ray Ludenia wrote:
I notice that you have effectively avoided answering Dan's direct
question
And since when is not answering a question a bad thing on this list?
Jeroen Consistency in policy van Baardwijk
At 06:55 27-10-2002 -0600, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
Jeroen, it's obvious that you're suffering from some kind of bizarre
fixation on John.
No, I am suffering from a highly developed sense of wrong and right -- a
mental condition that very few people seem to have.
I'd suggest you either (a)
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From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Question for everyone
At 06:55 27-10-2002 -0600, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
Jeroen, it's obvious that you're suffering from some kind of bizarre
fixation
Jeroen wrote:
At 06:55 27-10-2002 -0600, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
Jeroen, it's obvious that you're suffering from some
kind of bizarre
fixation on John.
No, I am suffering from a highly developed sense of
wrong and right -- a mental condition that very few
people seem to have.
*
At 07:17 27-10-2002 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
Why not make a webpage (I hereby volunteer some space at Brin-L.com for
it) that lists the full history of Brin-L dinging then? It will make
the system more transparent, and it will be easy to notice by everyone
if someone is trying to abuse the
At 16:56 27-10-2002 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Well, if in the end the net result is slowing of messages, if we want to
limit it to one *unanswered* ding per dinger per dingee per day and allow
unlimited back-and-forthing of it, what that will do is to greatly limit
the amount of traffic
At 06:27 27-10-2002 -0600, Adam Lipscomb wrote intolerantly:
Maybe we should just permanently ban misbehaving listmembers, like the
ones that make threats to hold the list hostage to their idea of how we
should behave.
GREAT. I ALREADY WAS A NAZI AND AN ANTI-SEMITE (ACCORDING TO SOME VERY
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I suppose it was only to be expected.
rob
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There's a picture of Sammy taken in August up on someone's website. The
page is http://www.itmm.com/Conventions/ArmadilloCon2002/page03.html
He's in the second picture. That's his daddy's leg behind the
stroller. :) (I think it was taken when I was getting my much-deserved
chair massage
Jeroen wrote:
GREAT.
*snipped some apparent typographical errors*
I WILL ONCE AGAIN ... BE ... SHUTTING UP
*more snippage - editing mine*
Jeroen, I appreciate your decision on this. I know it
came hard to you, but it's a big step, and I'm proud
of you.
I look forward to reading your
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On
Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: test
...
just past a list of unkept promises you made to share the archives,
Those are not
In a message dated 10/28/2002 3:10:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Corrupted-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com
I suppose it was only to be expected.
rob
You mean Hoon are having sex with Urs? Tymbrimi are selling obscene
Three nursing teachers killed at our University Medical Center. The gunman
makes four.
And my first reaction when the police hold a news conference?
Well, there goes Jeopardy.
Not a very nice thought, but it must be becoming pandemic.
William Taylor
Steve Sloan II wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean Hoon are having sex with Urs? Tymbrimi are selling
obscene glyphs under the counter? Traeki are painting
themselves green and posing as Christmas trees only to sneek
out of the house after having been decorated?
Kanten are
In a message dated 10/28/2002 4:32:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean Hoon are having sex with Urs? Tymbrimi are selling
obscene glyphs under the counter? Traeki are painting
themselves green and posing as Christmas trees only to
In a message dated 10/28/2002 4:48:27 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mebbe we should all go dress up as Kanten on Halloween and find George
H. W. Bush. :) :)
Not all. If you all dress as Kanten, I'll go as a can of cheese sauce.
William Taylor
--- The Fool wrote:
From: Ronn Blankenship
At 02:58 AM 10/27/02, The Fool wrote:
Most hot and spicy sauces will
help clear the sinus', but it's better to keep
them clear in the first place.
Agreed.
What should one do to insure that when one has
severe allergies that make
William Taylor wrote:
P.S. A single female on our list should dress up as a large
biologist/gardener alien in a tasteful pink dress with matching pillbox hat.
Let's see how long it takes someone to figure out that she's dressed as a
Jackie-O-Linten.
No, no, no. The men and women in the list
In a message dated 10/28/2002 5:24:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
as a cat-lover who is in
fact allergic to cats (though much less as the years
pass! :D),
I did a close inspection of a used SF book I had just picked up. Almost every
page had a white long hair
In a message dated 10/28/2002 5:56:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jackie-O-Linten.
No, no, no. The men and women in the list should act in an assertive
way, showing that we abhor terrorism and those that support it.
So, all women should be naked, and the men
Alberto wrote...
So, all women should be naked, and the men should drink
alchoholic beverages during Halloween.
Dude! If that's Halloween in your country, I think I need to celebrate
Halloween there!
Gary
From painfully conservative Delaware Ohio
Gary Nunn wrote:
So, all women should be naked, and the men should drink
alchoholic beverages during Halloween.
Dude! If that's Halloween in your country, I think I need to celebrate
Halloween there!
Of course not! What do you think we are? We are a
_Christian_ country! We don't celebrate
--- Julia wrote:
Steve Sloan II wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean Hoon are having sex with Urs? Tymbrimi
are selling
obscene glyphs under the counter? Traeki are
painting
themselves green and posing as Christmas trees
only to sneek
out of the house after having been
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I wrote:]
as a cat-lover who is in
fact allergic to cats (though much less as the
years pass! :D),
I did a close inspection of a used SF book I had
just picked up. Almost every
page had a white long hair sticking out of the
bottom edge.
Was it a cat
Rob wrote:
http://www.Brin-L.com
I suppose it was only to be expected.
I'm of two minds about that. Yes, Jeroen sometimes doesn't know when to quit, and
he's the architect of some of his difficulties. But he does seem to get more than his
fair share of the business over it, and
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
If you do not want all this to happen again in the
future, then you
will have to convince the person causing it in the first place
(Giorgis) to start behaving in such a way that all this will not
happen again.
I don't understand. Why should anyone *have*
While reading about breast cancer, I came across the
following:
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/health_consequences/mortali.htm
Between 1960 and 1990, deaths from lung cancer among
women have increased by more than 400%--exceeding
breast cancer deaths in the mid-1980s. The American
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Julia Thompson wrote:
There's a picture of Sammy taken in August up on
someone's website. The page is
http://www.itmm.com/Conventions/ArmadilloCon2002/page03.html
He's in the second picture. That's his daddy's leg
behind the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/28/2002 7:33:36 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and we can all just relax and talk
of something else.
Of Sousa and slips and ceiling wax, and cribbages and Kling's.
And why dry ice is boiling hot, and whether
Here's something I hadn't heard.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/788102.asp
...In the study, Moore and other researchers at Tufts
and the University of Massachusetts say living in a
household with smokers considerably increases a catÂ’s
risk of acquiring feline lymphoma, which kills
three-quarters of
In a message dated 10/28/2002 8:51:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In households where they were exposed five
years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In
a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor
of four.
Cats ignore whoever they want to,
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I quoted:]
In households where they were exposed five
years or more, cats had more than triple the risk.
In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a
factor of four.
Cats ignore whoever they want to, whenever they want
to.
I can just see the
In a message dated 10/28/2002 9:53:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
an odd cat.)
I've seem more odd dogs than odd cats.
Three legged, I mean.
A matter of personality more that genetics?
William Taylor
Who's Line Is It Anyway comes on at 12:07
--- Robert Seeberger wrote:
You gotta read this!
This is great!
First some background:
The Culture list had been receiving spam from
Nigeria, typical stuff wanting
money, promising riches, normal net aggrivations.
Apparently Nigerian scams are on peoples minds!
This one is one guys
In a message dated 10/28/2002 10:26:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cthulhu
If you knew Cthulhu, like I knew Cthulhu.
There was a girl in town that used to sew up Cthulhu dolls for SF cons.
I told her to make up a shorter version with tiny stunted legs in a
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