Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Misplaced mail, interesting neighbor, snake
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 22:42:37 -0500
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Oh, and the neighbor that Dan's most friendly with
Bryon Daly wrote:
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julia Thompson wrote:
(I was living in New England in the mid-1980s. 'Nuff said. At least I
was used to that sort of thing, being a Red Sox fan and all)
You should hate the Raiders too then, eh?
Doesn't everyone hate the Raiders?
On 10 Sep 2003 at 0:53, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Misplaced mail, interesting neighbor, snake
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 22:42:37 -0500
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Oh, and the
For someone to want to restore a men only institution could well be a
desire to return to misogyny, but it might not. I'm not sure that we
should immediately assume they're
just a bunch of scumbag racists. And sexists. And almost
certainly anti-Semites.
I can't expect someone in
At 08:01 AM 9/8/03 -0500, Horn, John wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tangent
When I was in grade school, we did soap carvings once.
Everyone had to bring in a bar of soap and a pocketknife.
(I'm guessing the pocketknife
would be forbidden these days) I managed to
Bryon Daly wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(I'm part of a branch of a family that was found in the past few
years. Got a call right after a Super Bowl, from my father's second
cousin. Guy lives in Gonzales. Never met him yet, but we e-mail a
lot. I got my favorite cousin
Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Misplaced mail, interesting neighbor, snake
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 22:42:37 -0500
snip
Oh, and the neighbor that Dan's most
-Original Message-
From: Bryon Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Decline in SF?
This article by Spider Robinson laments the decline in SF,
replaced by
backwards-looking Fantasy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?hp
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Bryon Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This article by Spider Robinson laments the decline in SF,
replaced by
backwards-looking Fantasy:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20
030908/COSPIDER08/
or:
What owners are *not* hated by fans?
New York Giants fans (of which I am proud to be a lifelong member)
practically worship Wellington Mara. We're not as sure about Bob Tisch, but that may
just be a sort of good cop/bad cop kind of thing, where Mara is the Grand Old
Man (he just turned 87),
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doug Pensinger wrote:
I used to be a Raider hater, but after all their fans have gone
through, I don't hate them anymore. I even think that they got
robbed in the AFC championship a couple years ago on that bogus not
a fumble call.
It was a pass attempt,
In a message dated 9/10/2003 10:11:46 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?hp
What will Penn do with the act, now that Teller is gone, I wonder...
What? It's not
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Brin-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Edward Teller, 1908-2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:30:05 -0500
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?hp
On a less Wibberly note... :)
The final two
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/338903.html
Last Update: 10/09/2003 17:46
Egyptian lawyer to sue Jews for biblical 'plunder'
By Reuters
CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue the
world's Jews for plundering gold during the Exodus from Pharaonic Egypt
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Scouted: Lawyers are evil and must be destroyed . . . Date: Wed,
10 Sep 2003 14:02:56 -0500
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/338903.html
Last Update: 10/09/2003 17:46
Egyptian lawyer to sue Jews for biblical 'plunder'
By Reuters
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From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Decline in SF?
From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Bryon Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This article by
At 08:17 AM 9/10/2003 -0700, you wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Bryon Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Decline in SF?
This article by Spider Robinson laments the decline in SF,
replaced by
backwards-looking
I read this one completely and agree. It sometimes can make me sad.
Regards
Armin Freiberg
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Sent: Dienstag, 9. September 2003 13:24
To: Brin-L
Subject: Brin: Forward, into the past
At 09:30 AM 9/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
For someone to want to restore a men only institution could well be a
desire to return to misogyny, but it might not. I'm not sure that we
should immediately assume they're
just a bunch of scumbag racists. And sexists. And almost
certainly
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Scouted: The South Will Rise Again!
Tom knows all! Tom sees all! He knows the evil that dwells in men's
hearts.
Who are you to
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Scouted: The South Will Rise Again!
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:30:11 EDT
For someone to want to restore a men only institution could well be a
desire to return to misogyny, but it might
On 10 Sep 2003 at 15:19, Jan Coffey wrote:
Copy and past.
I refuse to give NYT my info.
login: brinl / brinl
Handy, neh?
Andy
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?hp
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue
the world's Jews for plundering gold during the Exodus from
Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the
Bible.
Umm - a couple of obvious things - you can't sue a race of people,
Andrew Crystall wrote:
Grass snakes, on the other hand, are common just round here, and I've
been bitten by several including one especially large seven inch
example. Ow.
Phhbbbt... Seven inches is the size of the fangs on our snakes... :-)
I'm curious about being bitten - (Being bitten by
--- Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue
the world's Jews for plundering gold during the Exodus from
Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the
Bible.
Umm - a
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue
the world's Jews for plundering gold during the Exodus from
Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the
Chad Cooper wrote:
snip
Frankly I have a confession - I have not read any new sci-fi, other than
Brin for about a year. I am looking for good recommendations. Would anyone
on the list have any ideas for a good book to read :-) (Please limit your
suggestion to one per person. - thank you)
Dan wrote:
snip
Which people are you talking about? The main complaint on UseNet has been
that nothing happens but sniffing and folding of arms across one's bosom
for page after page after page. Winter's Heart has as many pages (to with
5) of Path of Daggers. The type set is slightly
Frankly I have a confession - I have not read any new sci-fi, other than
Brin for about a year. I am looking for good recommendations. Would anyone
on the list have any ideas for a good book to read :-) (Please limit your
suggestion to one per person. - thank you)
His Dark Materials
On 11 Sep 2003 at 9:01, Russell Chapman wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
Grass snakes, on the other hand, are common just round here, and I've
been bitten by several including one especially large seven inch
example. Ow.
Phhbbbt... Seven inches is the size of the fangs on our snakes...
John Horn wrote:
I made a somewhat passable carving of the state of New Jersey out of
Ivory when I was in school. Must be something that was done in a
lot of different schools.
Ronn! replied:
Bet you're glad you didn't grow up in Hawaii. Or even Alaska.
Colorado or Wyoming, OTOH . . .
Even
Bryon Daly wrote:
Doesn't everyone hate the Raiders? ;-)
You mean Kansas City isn't the only city where you can by Raider Hater
t-shirts and sweatshirts?
Reggie Bautista
GO CHIEFS! Maru
_
Express yourself with MSN Messenger 6.0 --
--- Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snippage throughout
[Russell I think?]
For someone to want to restore a men only
institution could well be a
desire to return to misogyny, but it might not.
I'm not sure that we
should immediately assume they're
just
There was a very funny book called _Andrew the Big
Deal_ (juvenile fiction), in which the geeky Air Force
brat discovers that one of his new classmates is a
Chinese descendent of Robert E. Lee, and yelps I
mean, the South will rise again Ma'am! as he's
extracting himself from an elderly lady's
Chad Cooper wrote:
I would agree. I find it very hard to find good sci-fi that strikes me in
the same way as say Pournelle, Asimov, Heinlein, Poul or Niven (and more
recently Brin :-)).
I think this is pure nonsense. Generations come, generations go. We
are all fans of a past generation of
On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 21:37 America/New_York, G. D. Akin wrote:
John Garcia wrote
Apologies if this has been posted already
Warren Zevon died on Sunday past from lung cancer. New York Times
obituary at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/arts/music/09ZEVO.html
Maybe Letterman will
Chad Cooper wrote:
I am looking for good recommendations. Would anyone
on the list have any ideas for a good book to read :-) (Please limit your
suggestion to one per person. - thank you)
Simmons' Illium - in hardcover now.
Doug
About 60 pages into it, so far so good
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Scouted: The South Will Rise Again! Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003
17:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
There was a very funny book called _Andrew the Big
Deal_ (juvenile
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which people are you talking about? The main
complaint on UseNet has been
that nothing happens but sniffing and folding of
arms across one's bosom
for page after page after page. Winter's Heart has
as many pages (to with
5) of Path of Daggers. The
The Fool wrote:
He laments on how long Jordan's books are, he knows its
pulp, but he reads it anyway.
These newer ones aren't long enough. After Crown of swords every single
book has been 1/2 the size of previous books. That's why a lot of people
are whining about the new books. They are
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:54:24PM -0700, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
And _nothing_ happened. It was ridiculous. I cannot think of a
_single_ plot point of any significance that occurred in the entire
book. Heck, I can't think of a single plot point from the entire
book. I can't remember the
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I
found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable.
Neil Gaiman
Did Neil Gaiman really say that about Battlefield Earth? He's not a
Scientologist, is he?
I read BE when it
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wish there was more to the story, but not yet. I can't even quite figure
out where to report this spammer, since he's going through proxy servers.
I guess there needs to be proxy server black hole list.
You said this was effectively a DOS attack, and DOS
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which people are you talking about? The main
complaint on UseNet has been
that nothing happens but sniffing and folding of
arms across one's bosom
for page after page after page. Winter's Heart has
as many pages (to
Erik Reuter
snip
If you prefer quality to quantity, go for George R. R. Martin. He'll
release no book before its time...
As evidenced by his A Feast for Crows being shifted from a September '03
to a Spring '04 release date.
George A
___
Bryon Daly wrote
Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I
found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable.
- Neil Gaiman
Did Neil Gaiman really say that about Battlefield Earth? He's not a
Scientologist, is he?
I read BE when it first came out,
Doug Pensinger wrote
snip
Long ain't the problem. The problem is they suck. The first one
was great, but they became less and less substantial until by the
time I quit reading them (either book 6 or 16, it doesn't much
matter) they were boring as hell. I always thought that he should
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