Re: OT: Safe Riddles

From: Phoenix (Dong_at_HungLo.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:15:45 GMT

     /\''/\
  |\/===\/|
   (o)^(o)
      ~=~ I hase gots the fwanchise... hehehee..

"Pip" <Aetyr@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:7JoDd.4978$fE4.420433@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> I'm really excited to be a part of this plan!
> Pip
> "Parse Tree" <account@domain.extension> wrote in message
> news:dCoDd.313734$2W1.31303@news.easynews.com...
>> Hmmm... Cat's are already very powerful creatures, and we would in
>> effect be increasing their power by a hundred fold!
>>
>> This would alter the face of the planet. Let's do it!
>>
>> Blessed Butt.
>>
>> Pip wrote:
>> > I dunno, with a lighter, you could make it a fire breathing
>> > cat.....rubs
>> > hands.....we'd be RICH selling them.
>> > Pip
>> > "Parse Tree" <account@domain.extension> wrote in message
>> > news:ZvoDd.312145$O24.48620@news.easynews.com...
>> >
>> >>They're for cat farts. You could probably use a synthetic asshat to
>> >>keep
>> >>the cat fart inside the cat, but I imagine it would be gross if it
>> >>ever
>> >>managed to make it's way up through the cat's mouth.
>> >>
>> >>Pip wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>I thought you had jars for that.
>> >>>Pip
>> >>>"Parse Tree" <account@domain.extension> wrote in message
>> >>>news:L5oDd.311759$lR6.54125@news.easynews.com...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>They need to be synthetic to keep the energy in.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Phoenix wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> /\\|//\
>> >>>>> / o ^ o\
>> >>>>>~oO=====Oo~.... Hahahaaaarrrr..It is I!.. syntetic cluepons?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>"Parse Tree" <account@domain.extension> wrote in message
>> >>>>>news:xamDd.302957$O24.51663@news.easynews.com...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>These asshats need cluepons.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>Rhyanon wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>Eggzaktly!
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>"Parse Tree" <account@domain.extension> wrote in message
>> >>>>>>>news:zP1Dd.252385$O24.43690@news.easynews.com...
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>Ed Murphy wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:06:32 -0600, Rhyanon wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>Top posting rocks; one can conveniently folow up a reply,
>> >>>>>>>>>>at
> least
>> >>>>>>>>>>for
>> >>>>>>>>>>someone actually has the mental acumen to keep track of
>> >>>>>>>>>>what's
>> >>>>>>>>>>being
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>said.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>Convenient != appropriate.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>You need to justify bottom posting with something. If all
>> >>>>>>>>other
>> >>>>>>>>things
>> >>>>>>>>are equal, and top posting is more convenient, then it is
>> >
>> > necessarily
>> >
>> >>>>>>>>more appropriate.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>Easier to top post without scrolling through five hundred
>> >>>>>>>>>>lines
>> >
>> > of
>> >
>> >>>>>>>>>>rehash.
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>Failure to trim quoted material is the real problem, and
>> >>>>>>>>>bottom
>> >>>>>>>>>posting
>> >>>>>>>>>is not much better than top posting (especially when
>> >>>>>>>>>combined
> with
>> >>>>>>>>>failure to trim).
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>it is easier to trim quoted material with top posting over
>> >>>>>>>>that of
>> >>>>>>>>bottom posting. That's another advantage it has. With top
>> >>>>>>>>posting,
>> >
>> > it
>> >
>> >>>>>>>>get's muddied trying to look through the attributions so that
> there
>> >>>>>>>>is
>> >>>>>>>>only a certain depth of quoted material. With top posting,
>> >>>>>>>>the
>> >>>>>>>>attribution is directly above the material quoted from that
> message,
>> >>>>>>>>so
>> >>>>>>>>it's very easy to trim.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>Interleaving replies amongst trimmed material is
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>appropriate.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>It is only appropriate because most posters (myself included)
>> >>>>>>>>are
>> >>>>>>>>lazy,
>> >>>>>>>>and prefer interleaving to creating multiple posts in
>> >>>>>>>>response.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>
>> >
>> >
>
>

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