Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group of people

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 00:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. Awww, shucks - no need for that. All I was griping about was that somebody along the line decided they could improve those (most excellent!) classic haikus by claiming that they were specifically Japanese-edition-Windows error

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Erik Price
Karl Hergenrother wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. internet email great tool for conversation context sometimes lost Erik ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Erik Price
Erik Price wrote: Karl Hergenrother wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. internet email great tool for conversation context sometimes lost Draft 2: wonders of email great tool for discussion, but context sometimes lost I should go into business. Erik

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread pll
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Ben Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group of Ben people sitting around a bar, debating the issue of the day. Ben We're all loud and opinionated, but

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-02 Thread Karl Hergenrother
Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. Karl - Original Message - From: Ben Boulanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:36 PM Subject: Re: OT from Tokyo On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 16:19, Michael O'Donnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-02 Thread bscott
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group of people sitting around a bar, debating the issue of the

OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Karl Hergenrother
Someone sent me these. If true, which I doubt, Balmer must be a vivid red. I think they are funny. Karl In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful,

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I should be used to it by now but it still irks me when somebody along the line has such a tragically inflated opinion of his own comic genius that he just can't leave well enough alone and pass gems like these along without improving upon them,

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Michael O'Donnell
along without improving upon them, much as my dog improves every hydrant he passes... Or worse yet, feels the need to respond to everyone with engaging banter that refers to his dog's urination habits. Speaking of inflated opinions of oneself... [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure where

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 16:19, Michael O'Donnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure where that came from, but please be informed that I wasn't talking about Karl or anybody else in the GNHLUG, just (I assume) some anonymous meddler up the line... Then I misunderstood, Sorry Michael...

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-01 Thread Michael O'Donnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure where that came from, but please be informed that I wasn't talking about Karl or anybody else in the GNHLUG, just (I assume) some anonymous meddler up the line... Then I misunderstood, Sorry Michael... Thought you were trying to stifle him Cool. And I