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Tim Weaver
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mimus wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:14:22 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>
>> mimus wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:50:20 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:20:45 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:06:36 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:22:42 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:35:04 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:54:40 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> metro-golden-meower wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:32:29 +0000 (UTC), Tim Weaver
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <tmw99999@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> metro-golden-meower wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is now clean and uncluterd. it took two days to do that!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> i had to shift a big pile of guitar mags, more dvd
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> spindles than i realized i own. two motherboard boxes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lots of pc parts and godd knows what else.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amazingly there where no books.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> now after cleaning the actual desk, my back herts like
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ******* crazy and standing is very painfull. i think i
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shall go use my tenz machine.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tomorrow i have to put stuff on the desk and arange it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pathetic.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> i agree. only the trapped nerves in my back don't. maybe
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you and i should gang up on them and give them a good hard
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thrashing back into shape?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sounds good. Shall I bring a baseball bat or a galvanized
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pipe?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Are you the ******** that destroyed my mail-box?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> That should be "who" destroyed your mailbox. Since I'm a
>>>>>>>>>>>> person and not a thing, "who" instead of "that" is the
>>>>>>>>>>>> correct term to use. For example, I could say, "I am the
>>>>>>>>>>>> person who destroyed your mailbox." But, I'm not saying I
>>>>>>>>>>>> did, just giving an example of the proper use of the pronoun
>>>>>>>>>>>> "who", given that I'm a person and not a thing.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ignorabimus.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> So, let us investigate this mailbox issue deeper. Can you
>>>>>>>>>>>> provide us with more details of exactly what happened to your
>>>>>>>>>>>> beloved mailbox?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Well, I didn't have an autopsy done, but it got folded in the
>>>>>>>>>>> middle by a blow from something _very much like_ a baseball
>>>>>>>>>>> bat or galvanized pipe . . . .
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hmm... I must confess to some mailbox destruction; but that
>>>>>>>>>> was in my middle teen years. As I'm now 46 years of age, I
>>>>>>>>>> believe that takes me off the suspect list. I'm curious for
>>>>>>>>>> more details, though.
>>>>>>>>>> When did this offence happen? Did you take pictures? Did you
>>>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>>>> a police report. Even if you bought it, it's government
>>>>>>>>>> property, you know.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Nah, I just shook my head, mumbled for about a week and kept
>>>>>>>>> sticking it back on the post when it fell back off, and finally
>>>>>>>>> today replaced it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reckon it'll stay there? Undestroyed?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We'll see. It's a different color. And I'm keeping the old one.
>>>>>>> So if the new one gets smashed, I will call the Post Office and
>>>>>>> the police, and we'll know to look for a club or pipe with both
>>>>>>> white _and_ gray paint on it, and be able to unleash the miracles
>>>>>>> of forensic criminal investigation (viz., mass spectrometry) on
>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Although I suspect that in that case the weapon in question will
>>>>>>> have _many_ paints on it, since I doubt the malefactors in
>>>>>>> question have anything personal against me . . . .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You don't think so? You are ~YOU~, aren't you?
>>>>>
>>>>> <with dignity:>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a quiet, amiable and generally well-liked citizen in my little
>>>>> local communities.
>>>>>
>>>>> The very few evangelists that have come by my house over the last
>>>>> coupla decades might not agree, although I'm polite even there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, and also the (neo-)Nazis that jumped me in Huntington, WV, back
>>>>> in the early '90s and beat me unconscious-- nothing like a little
>>>>> 3-on-1 surprise-attack in the dark on someone plastered, eh?
>>>>>
>>>>> Feh.
>>>>
>>>> OMG!!@!!!! WTF!@#!@$!@ !!
>>>> 1!11111k11
>>>>
>>>> Are you, like, still breathing and stuff?!? Iz your headz k? Like,
>>>> OMG i never knew you wuz beat upp.
>>>
>>> _Ne bespokoites'_, it was over fifteen years ago, and my major injury
>>> was to my back, where I slid down a brick wall as I was beaten
>>> unconscious, causing a raw spot about four or five inches across that
>>> took months to heal (****, I even drank some more beer afterward,
>>> battered and dazed but unbowed).
>>>
>>> Some ***** had been listening to a bar-conversation (a club, really),
>>> wot I don't even remember how the subject came up, but I was
>>> expressing my disbelief at the time that Pontius Pilate had ever
>>> approved submitting a ruling in Roman Imperial law to a barbarian mob,
>>> when she suddenly piped up, "You're a Yid, aren't you?", to which I
>>> gave the priceless response, "What's a 'Yid'?" (I was honestly puzzled
>>> at the time, not having ever actually heard the word used in
>>> conversation), and when she said "You know, a Yid, a Jew" I told her
>>> to take her **** bullshit somewhere else ("Oh, I'm not a ****, I'm not
>>> a ****"-- yeah right) . . . .
>>>
>>> And a week or so later, her boy-friend and a couple of others, all
>>> rather heavier and much more muscular if not taller than me, ambushed
>>> me.
>>>
>>> It took me a while to figure all that out, since they didn't introduce
>>> or explain themselves or anything, but I finally remembered having
>>> seen her with them a week or two earlier, and her crawling all over
>>> one of 'em.
>>>
>>> Ironically, the one of the trio that was actually identified to me
>>> later was a law-enforcement major at Marshall University . . . .
>>>
>>> Prolly a WVSP State Trooper by now, if not in DHS.
>>
>> Man, you're a tough 'ole bastage, aren't you?
>
> "I don't know, I was drunk at the time."
>
>> Now see, this is interesting.
>> This is the stuff movies are made of, right here.
>>
>> So, did you do anything about it? Report it? Plot a revenge attack?
>> Find out where they live and destroy their mailboxes?
>
> No. It'd be my word against theirs about who started it. And see
> preceding.
>
>> And are you a Yid? (I've never heard that before, either.) I'm German
>> on my dad's side, but I don't know if it's Yid or Hit blood. My nose
>> is certainly Germanic looking in profile, but it doesn't seem to me to
>> "hook" exactly right, so I don't know. Don't really give a good ****,
>> for that matter.
>
> I'm mostly Northern English and Southern Scottish with some dollops of
> Welsh and American Indian.
>
> A classic American Midwestern mutt, IOW.
Oh, hai! I'm Scotish on my mom's side. Maybe we're long lost half-
brothers.
--
Tim Weaver
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
- Gene Spafford, 1992
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:14:22 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>
>> mimus wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:50:20 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:20:45 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:06:36 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:22:42 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:35:04 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:54:40 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> metro-golden-meower wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:32:29 +0000 (UTC), Tim Weaver
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <tmw99999@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> metro-golden-meower wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is now clean and uncluterd. it took two days to do that!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> i had to shift a big pile of guitar mags, more dvd
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> spindles than i realized i own. two motherboard boxes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lots of pc parts and godd knows what else.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> amazingly there where no books.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> now after cleaning the actual desk, my back herts like
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ******* crazy and standing is very painfull. i think i
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shall go use my tenz machine.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tomorrow i have to put stuff on the desk and arange it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pathetic.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> i agree. only the trapped nerves in my back don't. maybe
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you and i should gang up on them and give them a good hard
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thrashing back into shape?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sounds good. Shall I bring a baseball bat or a galvanized
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pipe?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Are you the ******** that destroyed my mail-box?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> That should be "who" destroyed your mailbox. Since I'm a
>>>>>>>>>>>> person and not a thing, "who" instead of "that" is the
>>>>>>>>>>>> correct term to use. For example, I could say, "I am the
>>>>>>>>>>>> person who destroyed your mailbox." But, I'm not saying I
>>>>>>>>>>>> did, just giving an example of the proper use of the pronoun
>>>>>>>>>>>> "who", given that I'm a person and not a thing.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ignorabimus.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> So, let us investigate this mailbox issue deeper. Can you
>>>>>>>>>>>> provide us with more details of exactly what happened to your
>>>>>>>>>>>> beloved mailbox?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Well, I didn't have an autopsy done, but it got folded in the
>>>>>>>>>>> middle by a blow from something _very much like_ a baseball
>>>>>>>>>>> bat or galvanized pipe . . . .
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hmm... I must confess to some mailbox destruction; but that
>>>>>>>>>> was in my middle teen years. As I'm now 46 years of age, I
>>>>>>>>>> believe that takes me off the suspect list. I'm curious for
>>>>>>>>>> more details, though.
>>>>>>>>>> When did this offence happen? Did you take pictures? Did you
>>>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>>>> a police report. Even if you bought it, it's government
>>>>>>>>>> property, you know.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Nah, I just shook my head, mumbled for about a week and kept
>>>>>>>>> sticking it back on the post when it fell back off, and finally
>>>>>>>>> today replaced it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reckon it'll stay there? Undestroyed?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We'll see. It's a different color. And I'm keeping the old one.
>>>>>>> So if the new one gets smashed, I will call the Post Office and
>>>>>>> the police, and we'll know to look for a club or pipe with both
>>>>>>> white _and_ gray paint on it, and be able to unleash the miracles
>>>>>>> of forensic criminal investigation (viz., mass spectrometry) on
>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Although I suspect that in that case the weapon in question will
>>>>>>> have _many_ paints on it, since I doubt the malefactors in
>>>>>>> question have anything personal against me . . . .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You don't think so? You are ~YOU~, aren't you?
>>>>>
>>>>> <with dignity:>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a quiet, amiable and generally well-liked citizen in my little
>>>>> local communities.
>>>>>
>>>>> The very few evangelists that have come by my house over the last
>>>>> coupla decades might not agree, although I'm polite even there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, and also the (neo-)Nazis that jumped me in Huntington, WV, back
>>>>> in the early '90s and beat me unconscious-- nothing like a little
>>>>> 3-on-1 surprise-attack in the dark on someone plastered, eh?
>>>>>
>>>>> Feh.
>>>>
>>>> OMG!!@!!!! WTF!@#!@$!@ !!
>>>> 1!11111k11
>>>>
>>>> Are you, like, still breathing and stuff?!? Iz your headz k? Like,
>>>> OMG i never knew you wuz beat upp.
>>>
>>> _Ne bespokoites'_, it was over fifteen years ago, and my major injury
>>> was to my back, where I slid down a brick wall as I was beaten
>>> unconscious, causing a raw spot about four or five inches across that
>>> took months to heal (****, I even drank some more beer afterward,
>>> battered and dazed but unbowed).
>>>
>>> Some ***** had been listening to a bar-conversation (a club, really),
>>> wot I don't even remember how the subject came up, but I was
>>> expressing my disbelief at the time that Pontius Pilate had ever
>>> approved submitting a ruling in Roman Imperial law to a barbarian mob,
>>> when she suddenly piped up, "You're a Yid, aren't you?", to which I
>>> gave the priceless response, "What's a 'Yid'?" (I was honestly puzzled
>>> at the time, not having ever actually heard the word used in
>>> conversation), and when she said "You know, a Yid, a Jew" I told her
>>> to take her **** bullshit somewhere else ("Oh, I'm not a ****, I'm not
>>> a ****"-- yeah right) . . . .
>>>
>>> And a week or so later, her boy-friend and a couple of others, all
>>> rather heavier and much more muscular if not taller than me, ambushed
>>> me.
>>>
>>> It took me a while to figure all that out, since they didn't introduce
>>> or explain themselves or anything, but I finally remembered having
>>> seen her with them a week or two earlier, and her crawling all over
>>> one of 'em.
>>>
>>> Ironically, the one of the trio that was actually identified to me
>>> later was a law-enforcement major at Marshall University . . . .
>>>
>>> Prolly a WVSP State Trooper by now, if not in DHS.
>>
>> Man, you're a tough 'ole bastage, aren't you?
>
> "I don't know, I was drunk at the time."
>
>> Now see, this is interesting.
>> This is the stuff movies are made of, right here.
>>
>> So, did you do anything about it? Report it? Plot a revenge attack?
>> Find out where they live and destroy their mailboxes?
>
> No. It'd be my word against theirs about who started it. And see
> preceding.
>
>> And are you a Yid? (I've never heard that before, either.) I'm German
>> on my dad's side, but I don't know if it's Yid or Hit blood. My nose
>> is certainly Germanic looking in profile, but it doesn't seem to me to
>> "hook" exactly right, so I don't know. Don't really give a good ****,
>> for that matter.
>
> I'm mostly Northern English and Southern Scottish with some dollops of
> Welsh and American Indian.
>
> A classic American Midwestern mutt, IOW.
Oh, hai! I'm Scotish on my mom's side. Maybe we're long lost half-
brothers.
--
Tim Weaver
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
- Gene Spafford, 1992
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