The perils of "search & replace" in documentation.

"JackShephard" wrote

Amazing, isn't it?

Hmm...I wonder how that could be.

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"Glenn Knickerbocker" wrote

I got a degree and a second major. The English major is worth about five cents on the dollar. It'd be worth twice that if it weren not for Stanley Fish.

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We'll trade you Tom Green for Bill, please.

Who's self-congratulatory? I come to Usenet to amuse myself, when bored with what I'm doing. I hardly think congratulations are in order, if I succeed.

We've had many, many trolls in aeu, over the years, and I've met with many others, in other groups. They all like to feel that they are succeeding in something, but they're so easy to tag along, because all you have to do is give them the feeling that you are getting emotional, or confused, or whatever, and they'll happily post a thousand postings.

My objective, as ever, is to keep them as busy as possible with as little effort on my part as possible. Read a few archives, and you'll see that I do the same thing to all of them, as do some of the others at aeu.

The kiddies are outgunned and have been out-trolled, whether you, from the highly esteemed "bookpro.com" (/BWAH-HA-HA-HAAA!/), think so or not.

Probably the only thing worse than being a Texan is having the need to pretend to be one.

But look who he's (mostly) trying to distract attention from. I mean. Kate Humble. If I had to choose between them there'd be no contest.

Okay, self-congratulatory was perhaps not the right word. Scratch that and insert "smug" and add "a bit pompous."

Also add "patronizing."

Okay, time to add "self-congratulatory" back in. Or "self-deluded." your choice.

And finish off with "clueless" and a reprise of "smug" and "patronizing."

BW

My mother got her EE degree from from WPI in 1983. I think she was only there a couple of years (having transferred from Worcester Junior).

-jwgh

"Jacob W. Haller" wrote

Is she hot? 'Cause I was supposed to be in the class of 1984.

Nevermind. Sounds like she went back to school. BTW, "yoof" is sufficiently close to "yiff". Just FYI.

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Actually, I've got a lot of time for Ms Humble, as I've seen her in other programmes, such as when she was diving in the Amazon; I thought she did well with the improvising scientists, too. One of my objections to Oddie's constant mugging and upstaging is the effect it has on her: she has to speak while he's interrupting, and even interrupt while he's interrupting when it's actually her turn to speak. The infection even has some long-range influence on Simon King, who's taken to gormless telly giggling a little bit, too - though fortunately only at the beginning of his pieces until he hits his natural stride. And as he should be the next Attenborough, he'd better not let himself get dragged down too far.

Maybe . . . but do you understand why?

Careful.

You haven't really thought through the logic of that question, have you? Or at least the logic of asking it.

That couldn't happen to a schmart guy like you, though, right?

Take your Yankee hands off that Ottawa boy. *We* endured his (early) adolescence and *we* will trade him. We will throw in Paul Anka, Rich Little and a future draft pick.

That would be you. See below.

Another words, all you have to do is take the bait. Repeatedly. Gotcha.

Such claims would be more persuasive if they were made BEFORE you ended up with a half-dozen shiny hooks in your lip.

"Who's self-congratulatory?"

I'm very curious to know what you find amusing about the domain "bookpro.com." Please share.

Just because *you* couldn't find a job with your BA in English, doesn't mean we *talented* English majors had to wait tables. I won a two-year fellowship for a master's degree in communications and waltzed right into the high-paying job of newspaper reporting! I must be worth at least $30,000 dollars dead now.

-- Chris McG. Harming humanity since 1951. "Uh-oh. Looners." -- Darla

Was Geraldo Rivera there?

No way, he's a free man!

Here's a puzzle. What should XXXX be replaced with?

A longeing cavesson may be used with a snaffle XXXX. If so, the cavesson should be put on over the XXXX, with the noseband of the cavesson under the XXXX cheekpieces. The XXXX checkpieces should be lengthened to allow this. It is best to remove the XXXX noseband.