At 11:02 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Wasn't the middle finger the one that was stiffened in the astronauts'
gloves for pushing buttons, as well?
Yes.
-- Ronn! :)
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On May 19, 2005, at 7:30 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:02 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Wasn't the middle finger the one that was stiffened in the
astronauts' gloves for pushing buttons, as well?
Yes.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Dave
On 18/05/2005, at 10:49 AM, Erik Reuter wrote:
How disappointing! Julia started a whining thread just tailor-made to
draw the nonsense-spouting whiners, like flies to shit.
It sure worked. Here you are!
Hey, so am I. :( or :)
Regards, Ray.
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My left middle finger is raring to go, it needs excercise.
Come on, where are the cry-babies when you need them? What
happened to the posturing pudding heads? Nick, Warren, Dave,
Ronn, Gary, surely you have something to cry about or some
nonsense to spout? Here's your chance. You might
On May 18, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Gary Nunn wrote:
You know, some bathroom time and a Playboy magazine (or a Playgirl,
depending on your personal preferences) will probably take care of
some of
that pent up frustration
Playgirl's draw is more for women, I think. Most of the men featured in
it are
Warren Ockrassa wrote
On May 18, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Gary Nunn wrote:
You know, some bathroom time and a Playboy magazine (or a Playgirl,
depending on your personal preferences) will probably take care of
some of
that pent up frustration
Playgirl's draw is more for women, I think.
On May 18, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Andrew Paul wrote:
I think you are being unfair here Warren, surely Erik's left middle
finger constitutes some sort of signal, as long as he is using it in
the
traditional manner.
You know his later post made me think it's actually a reference to the
letter d on the
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
You know his later post made me think it's actually a reference to the
letter d on the QWERTY keyboard, which would fall under the left
middle finger of a touch typist, and which would possibly be programmed
for delete.
If so I have to say the subtlety of the reference
On May 18, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Wasn't the middle finger the one that was stiffened in the astronauts'
gloves for pushing buttons, as well?
Was it? Wow. I never knew. I just figured they were responding to
riding on spaceships built by the lowest bidder.
;)
--
Warren
All the posts I read that have someone dismissing someone else's
words/arguments as malarkey or hogwash, I'm automatically
discounting some.
So if you are trying to persuade *me* of anything, me being a particular
spectator of debate here, that tactic is costing you.
Just FYI.
Julia
nonsense,
as well as those who may not be, you are painting with too broad a
brush. So you lose points with me. Just for the record.
p.s. I also consider it to be extremely rude to publicly announce
who's in a killfile, so if you want my continued respect at the same
level, I'd appreciate you
people who are correctly pointing out nonsense,
as well as those who may not be, you are painting with too broad a
brush. So you lose points with me. Just for the record.
Perhaps a price worth paying: some points are worth more than others.
If I act in a way that causes someone that I and the list hold
How disappointing! Julia started a whining thread just tailor-made to
draw the nonsense-spouting whiners, like flies to shit.
My left middle finger is raring to go, it needs excercise. Come on,
where are the cry-babies when you need them? What happened to the
posturing pudding heads? Nick,
Erik Reuter wrote:
Come on, it will be healthy! My left-middle finger needs exercise!
You know, this is the kind of sentence that _begs_ for the
canonical reply:
Then why don't you stick it inside your ass?
But since I am polite, I will not write this obscenety O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
On May 17, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Erik Reuter wrote:
Nick, Warren, Dave, Ronn, Gary, surely you have something to cry about
or some nonsense to spout?
Hey, Erik: PAY ATTENTION! I already replied, at length, to your reply to
Julia's message, not 30 minutes ago.
If your manual killfile already killed it,
Erik Reuter wrote:
How disappointing! Julia started a whining thread just tailor-made
to
draw the nonsense-spouting whiners, like flies to shit.
My left middle finger is raring to go, it needs excercise. Come on,
where are the cry-babies when you need them? What happened to the
posturing
At 06:57 PM 11/3/2002 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
What I am
saying is that it sounds awfully arrogant when an amateur claims to have
the One True Answer (this *is* how etcetera -- notice the emphasis on
the word is) and then add that the professionals haven't figured it out
yet.
He could
At 12:49 PM 11/8/02, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 06:57 PM 11/3/2002 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
What I am
saying is that it sounds awfully arrogant when an amateur claims to have
the One True Answer (this *is* how etcetera -- notice the emphasis on
the word is) and then add that the professionals
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
Jim wrote:
hehehe, should I ever find myself sudenly diabetic or something,
I'll drop you a line.
Are you willing to take a trans-Atlantic flight though? :)
Hmm, maybe not. But then again, Thanksgiving is a North American
holiday so I'm guessing you're from the
Jim Sharkey [mailto:templar569;excite.com] wrote:
hehehe, should I ever find myself sudenly diabetic or something,
I'll drop you a line.
and later:
In that case,
New Jersey is not all that far from you after all!
It isn't far, but I'll turn around and hassle my own mother in law
rather than
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:41:57PM -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 04:28 AM 11/2/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Do you have any idea how arrogant your post sounds?
Do you have any idea how arrogant _your_ post sounds?
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea
William Taylor wrote:
Judy, Judy,---
Thipht.
Jud---
Swith..THUNK!
Argh.
Do you have any idea how arrow Grant this post tries to sound?
Sorry, William, but you tried *waay* too hard for this one. Gonna have to
ding you for it. ;-)
Jim
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:41:57PM -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 04:28 AM 11/2/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Do you have any idea how arrogant your post sounds?
Do you have any idea how arrogant _your_ post sounds?
Do you have any idea howudo
Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to
make a really good chocolate chip cookie?
Le Dimanche 3 novembre 2002, à 08:58 , Jim Sharkey a écrit :
No, but my wife does. Every year on the day before Thanksgiving, she
and her father spend the
evening
Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to make a
really good chocolate chip cookie?
Le Dimanche 3 novembre 2002, à 11:39 , Julia Thompson a écrit :
I might have a good recipe. I made a bunch of cookies for fellow
dorm-mates around final exam time one
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to make a
really good chocolate chip cookie?
Le Dimanche 3 novembre 2002, à 11:39 , Julia Thompson a écrit :
I might have a good recipe. I made a bunch of cookies for fellow
Le Dimanche 3 novembre 2002, à 12:00 , Julia Thompson a écrit :
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to
make a
really good chocolate chip cookie?
Le Dimanche 3 novembre 2002, à 11:39 , Julia Thompson a écrit :
I
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:39:18AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
given a few recipes by someone whose grandparents had a bakery. If I
still have that paper, I could give you a good recipe.
Tell me if I ought to look.
Yes! Never turn down a good chocolate chip cookie recipe!
--
Erik Reuter
At 11:21 PM 11/2/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to make a
really good chocolate chip cookie?
No, but I know where to go to buy them . . .
M . . . chocolate chip . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on
At 07:58 AM 11/3/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to
make a really good chocolate chip cookie?
No, but my wife does. Every year on the day before Thanksgiving, she and
her father spend the evening making about a jillion
In a message dated 11/3/2002 7:07:50 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, William, but you tried *waay* too hard for this one. Gonna
have to ding you for it. ;-)
Well I did say tries
I'll go back to trying to win the Eatin' an Arrow contest.
William
From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:jxg9;po.cwru.edu]
At 02:07 PM 11/1/2002 -0600 Horn, John wrote:
Would all of these permanent members have a veto? If not,
which ones would?
Virtually every country under consideration for a permanent
UNSC seat in
the future has stated that they would
At 03:47 PM 11/3/2002 -0600 Horn, John wrote:
As Jim said earlier, wouldn't that make it next to impossible to get
anything done on the UNSC? I can't imagine almost any even remotely
controversial proposal not being vetoed by one of that group?
There is a bit of game theory involved.
At 20:09 31-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
So, there you have it. That *is* how UNSC reform will end up - only the
professionals haven't figured it out yet.
Given the absence of smileys, I take it that the above is to be taken
seriously.
Well, in that case: sheesh, you really are
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Do you have any idea how arrogant your post sounds? Do you
really believe
that you are so intellectually superior to others that you
can see things
coming that trained professionals with years of relevant
experience would miss?
Puh-lease!
Puh-lease!
A lot
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 20:09 31-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
So, there you have it. That *is* how UNSC reform will end up - only the
professionals haven't figured it out yet.
Given the absence of smileys, I take it that the above is to be taken
seriously.
Well, in that
At 01:20 PM 11/2/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
Did you successfully predict which AFC team went over to the NFC? (Just
curious.) Or was your prediction not as detailed as that?
Yup, I made my prediction on the day that Houston was awarded the expansion
franchise. The only error in my
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 01:20 PM 11/2/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
Did you successfully predict which AFC team went over to the NFC? (Just
curious.) Or was your prediction not as detailed as that?
Yup, I made my prediction on the day that Houston was awarded the expansion
At 10:32 AM 11/2/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
No, this is a kid who just got back from volunteering at a Model UN
conference, who has spent a lot of the past few years thinking about the
UN, and who probably understands about 10 times as much about it as any
of the rest of us here, yourself
At 04:28 AM 11/2/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Do you have any idea how arrogant your post sounds?
Do you have any idea how arrogant _your_ post sounds?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry
At 09:38 PM 10/31/02, Ritu Ko wrote:
GCU Still Sleepy
GSV Is 9am Too Early To Call It A Day And Go Back To Bed?
Sunrise is Nature's way of telling you it's bedtime.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:41:57PM -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 04:28 AM 11/2/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Do you have any idea how arrogant your post sounds?
Do you have any idea how arrogant _your_ post sounds?
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to make
John D. Giorgis posited:
A UNSC made up of America, Russia, China, India, the EU, Mexico,
and Egypt as permanent members, and another 18 countries rotating
in and out.
De : Jim Sharkey [mailto:templar569;excite.com]
This is a pretty interesting idea John. It sounds fair and
reasonably
From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:templar569;excite.com]
John D. Giorgis posited:
A UNSC made up of America, Russia, China, India, the EU, Mexico,
and Egypt as permanent members, and another 18 countries rotating
in and out.
This is a pretty interesting idea John. It sounds fair and
John D. Giorgis posited:
A UNSC made up of America, Russia, China, India, the EU, Mexico,
and Egypt as permanent members, and another 18 countries rotating
in and out.
De : Horn, John [mailto:JHorn;healthlink.com]
Would all of these permanent members have a veto? If not, which ones
Horn, John wrote:
From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:templar569;excite.com]
John D. Giorgis posited:
A UNSC made up of America, Russia, China, India, the EU, Mexico,
and Egypt as permanent members, and another 18 countries rotating
in and out.
This is a pretty interesting idea John. It sounds fair
At 03:10 PM 11/1/2002 -0500 Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
Indeed it is, although I think that the Arabs' importance
is a bit overdone. I would rather see a permanent member be
from black Africa which is a sizable portion of the world
population. South Africa is better respected on the
continent
- Original Message -
From: Jean-Louis Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: Just for the record
De : Julia Thompson [mailto:julia;zurg.net]
I haven't been reading the WSJ editorial page much recently, but my
husband
De : Julia Thompson [mailto:julia;zurg.net]
I haven't been reading the WSJ editorial page much recently, but my
husband has, and he's seen a fair bit of the following as of late:
1) Arguments that France shouldn't be a permanent member of the UN
Security Council.
2) Arguments
De : Julia Thompson [mailto:julia;zurg.net]
I've been giving this a bit of thought in the past 16 hours, and what
makes more sense to me than the WSJ's proposal is just dumping France
and taking on India, instead.
If Europe were all one country, I'd argue that it ought to have a seat
on the
A brief summary of the debate:
Just about everyone agrees that the UN Security Council is no longer
representative. Although many people argue that there should be no veto
in the UNSC, there are five countries that are strongly opposed to that
concept, and they all have veto power over UNSC
John D. Giorgis wrote:
Once this happens, it then becomes possible to envision
expanding the UNSC
to 25 members or so, with 7-8 of them as permanent members
(pending whether
the UK joins the EU seat.)
How long a time frame are you envisioning here?
India is basically a done deal
to
Ritu Ko wrote:
Ritu
GCU Still Sleepy
GSV Is 9am Too Early To Call It A Day And Go Back To Bed?
No, but 10AM is a perfectly acceptable hour to begin a nap. :)
Julia
trying to gauge when to haul someone upstairs, plunk him into pajamas
and start the just-before-bed routine --
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Aside Re: UN Security Council Reform Re: Just for the record
Ritu Ko wrote:
Ritu
GCU Still Sleepy
GSV Is 9am Too Early To Call It A Day And Go
Julia Thompson wrote:
Ritu
GCU Still Sleepy
GSV Is 9am Too Early To Call It A Day And Go Back To Bed?
No, but 10AM is a perfectly acceptable hour to begin a nap. :)
Okay. I can survive these 35 minutes just by making sure all the
children, dogs and puppies are involved in a *long*,
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