On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stipulated:
> From: "Nix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, negativescore gibbered uncontrollably:
>>> Find a floppy disk. Format it. Move cpanel over to the floppy disk. Remove
>>> the floppy disk from the system. Wrap the floppy in
>>> alternating layers of foil, lead is best, and parafin until it is about 6"
>>> thick. Save it until the next full Moon. Take it to a
>>> graveyard. In a quiet corner dig a hole about 6' deep with a post hole
>>> digger. Drop the disk in making sure it lands flat. Drive
>>> a fire hardened oaken stake through the disk and wrappings. Then backfill
>>> the hole.
>> As far as I can see you're the first person on this thread to mention
>> cpanel at all.
>> (Also, how do you wrap something in a layer of paraffin?)
>
> Nix, that was my riff. And it was alternating layers of lead foil
> and paraffin. Wrap, dip, and end recurse as necessary.
He posted it in the wrong thread, as well, and my MUA sorted it above
the post in which cpanel was mentioned.
> {^,^} Joanne NegativeScore didn't quote the message in "the
> canonical manner. Sometimes MUAs get the quoting
> wrong. "Stuff" happens.
Getting the quoting *and* threading wrong *and* adding no useful
content, though, that takes talent.
> His lack of sense of
> humor was painfully obvious, though.
I'll say.
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see the need to define levels of inconceivability.' --- Rik Steenwinkel
