Just the one? (rhetorical)
Which one were you asking, which or why? (non-rhetorical in a rhetorical sense)
Strange Ray, I was effectively saying the same about yours! Your questions/statement came first, so your comments apply to you before they apply to me.
Ok, ask your sheep to explain it to you.
Er, uh, are you not familiar with the concept of footnotes?
Threaded newsreaders are what makes the conversation flow; get one and learn to use it. That flow is impeded by idiots who quote an entire message tree without clipping and append their two cents worth to the bottom. That kind of stupid crap is worse than any amount of top posting.
Last Tango in Perth??
Cut one out of your private stock for me, mate. The cute one over there maybe?
-- Ray
LOL
Dear God, I do believe he's trying to fix us up, Greg.
-- Ray
skrive på
Unlike you, I don't distinguish between cute and otherwise ewes.
Well, if you're going to move in I'll have to tighten up the boxing ring ropes.
Some of us do have standards, mate.
-- Ray
Just don't call me Yentl.
Ok, Tevye.
-- Ray
On 10/22/2007 10:46 PM Ray Haddad spake thus:
So you admit you had sex with that sheep, eh?
And did you stop beating your wife yet? Yes or no.
Only that I have standards. Only cute sheep need apply.
I beat her up every day. She sleeps at least an hour more than I do.
-- Ray
Yes, I've better move on, and my next step will be to killfile you.
You're Australian.
He's Australian - it's compulsary.
No, conversations follow an order of continuity. What I mean by random is answering the question before it's asked, which is what top posting does (especially if you missed the prior post in the thread originally for whatever reason or read a high volume of messages in a day). Top posting also makes it difficult to correct the goofed quoting to maintain proper context and continuity later.
That's specific to the Georgonics dialect of English and not widespread...
Mindless bottom posting is a waste of bandwidth, sending the same ever-expanding trail of chipmunk droppings back and forth and forcing people wanting to read it to scroll down through the pile of dung to get to the new information. Threaded newsreaders aren't nything new, and if you DO miss a message they make it easy to go back up the thread tree and find what you missed or forgot.
On 10/23/2007 8:18 PM Steve Caple spake thus:
I'll tell you what's a waste of bandwidth, my trollish friend: a pathetically transparent attempt to impersonate another regular around here. BZZZZZZZZZT!
Erik, there are some of us here who look at that as a blessing and not a threat. Trust me on that. Kill file me at any time.
-- Ray
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