On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:57:32 GMT, "Pieter Georgeopoulis"
<alphadiego66medina@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In a totally off-topic waste of bandwidth bloviated thusly:
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> It was after midnight and d®.§t®@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
had been pouring over the
computer and various usenet posts of alt.art.theft.scream.scream.scream, a
newsgroup which had died a day before its 7th birthday. I mentioned that he
had been spending a lot of time studying the articles and asked him "What
are you looking-for?"
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> "I'm determining the cause of death."
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> "Cause of death," I laughed, "No posts!"
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> He glared at me, pointed his index finger at my face, and accentuating
his words with his finger said, "Look! Buster! There is no such thing as
death due to no posts! Something goes wrong or you go on posting." He
returned to his computer and I didn't interrupt him again.
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> I knew, as well as the doctor, that alt.art.theft.scream.scream.scream
wasn't in Google because of no posts. It wasn't in Google because it was
sucked dry by a bore as he typed nonsense on his keyboard from the bar at
closing time. And as soon as d®.§t®@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
glared at me, I realized the
im****tance of determining whether boredom caused its death.
Much better :-)
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