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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:33:50 GMT, Mephistopheles
<no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:50:14 GMT, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin)
> wrote:
>> X-No-Archive: yes
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:58:41 GMT, MissedTheBus
>> <MissedTheBus@The-Fort.com> wrote in alt.o*p.n**p:
>>> X-Brussel-Sprouts: NO
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>>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:00:54 GMT, Mephistopheles
>>> <no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:55:20 GMT, MissedTheBus
>>>> <MissedTheBus@The-Fort.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:38:25 GMT, Mephistopheles
>>>>> <no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:53:31 +0100, A Grateful Lurker NP-f48
>>>>>> <agratefulREMOVElurker@THIShushmail.comINVALID> wrote:
>>> snip snap snup
>>>> Got yer, me lovable rascal! Think you can slip surreptitiously into
>>>> another's thread, make your helpful comment, then scurry back to your
>>>> bolt-hole undetected! I had all Ports & Airstrips on Red Alert
>>>> watching out for yer this past month.
>>>> Mind you, I admire your sheer bottle, or don't yer have "unfavourable"
>>>> Sports Coverage down under. Yea, the Pommies thrashed yer good &
>>>> proper in the SemiFinals of the ICC One-Dayers this Tuesday. Six
>>>> Wicket whitewash! So it's the Brits in the Finals against India
>>>> tomorrow.
>>> Well the footy finals are on now so our cricket team didn't have their
>>> eye properly on the ball watching them too.
>>> But when the footy's finished they'll start playing cricket properly.
>>>> Perhaps I can return the compliment you paid me some time
>>>> back, about tiddlywinks & croquet & cissy games like that. Nothing
>>>> involving higher maths though, cos I ain't a patch on you there.
>>>> Not my fault that, cos when I was a schoolie under them Romans all we
>>>> had for writing material was Stone Tablets & Hand Chisels, and if
>>>> hacking your way through Long Division sums with a blunt tool ain't
>>>> bad enough, multiplying Roman numerals, MMDCCIX by CLVIII, oh but you
>>>> worked that out for me once before if I remember!
>>> Hehe now we hack our way through computer programs, but we don't tell
>>> the Romans
>>>> I appreciate very much that, if I've got it right, you're now in your
>>>> third school term, the last one in your current year group, so you'll
>>>> be concentrating hard on doing well before going to a higher grade. So
>>>> don't waste time answering this garbage.
>>> Actually we have 4 terms here and it's now holidays again between 3
>>> and 4.
>>> Last weekend we went 2000 km to see our footy team win and get in the
>>> semi finals for the first time.
>>> The semi is tomorrow way down in Sydney but, so we'll be watching that
>>> on our 4:3 TV.
>>>> Also, you're heading into
>>>> another one of those glorious Summers your climate's blest with just
>>>> as we're wrapping up for the dark, drizzly months ahead, so you'll
>>>> want to be out & about, surfing on the Great Barrier Reef & what-not.
>>> Well we're sposed to be going to the beach for a few days next week.
>>> I've only tried surfing once before and I spent most of the time
>>> getting smashed on the floor and swallowing salty water, like those
>>> boards buck worse than a horse.
>>> If the Ark did that no wonder you crashed it.
>>>> But don't neglect your Cricket Practice. Way things are going for your
>>>> lot, they might have to call you up! Jeepers, am I enjoying this!
>>> "Better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even
>>> though checkered with failure, than rank with those poor spirits who
>>> neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the great
>>> twilight that knows not victory or defeat."
>>> Yep I'm actually reading a book and that's in it, Theodore Roosevelt
>>> said it.
>>> And there's something else in it that made me think of you straight
>>> away hehe
>>> "Am I so busy putting out fires that I don't have time to start any?"
>>> Mmmmmm, not many other people in these groups lately can say that.
>>>> Any rate, must post this off to catch you before you retire for the
>>>> night. Give my regards to your mum & your princess Cos after all the
>>>> nasty things I've said I wanna finish on a sweeter note. Can't bear to
>>>> have you leaving in a huff, or even in a minute-and-a-huff for that
>>>> matter.
>>> Well I had already went to bed, cos I've got the flu.
>>> Nasty things, what nasty things?
>>> Like you're allowed to get excited if your team wins something, even
>>> if it's by mistake.
>>> But you should beat India, even if they don't have footy finals to
>>> watch at the same time.
>>> I'm not a huffy person, Mum would never let me be, well not for more
>>> than a minute and a huff anyway.
>>>> So long for now.
>>>> Mephi, hiring a Wide Screen Telly for tomorrow's Clash of the
>>>> Champions!
>>> MT߮, wondering if a wide screen TV lets you see more of the crowd
>>> --
>>> I know what I mean when I mean what I say
>>> But sometimes jokes can go astray
>>> Cos what you mean
>>> Isn't always seen
>>> By everyone else in just the same way
>> My acquaintances among the I'bri -- the descendents of Abraham, Isaac,
>> and Jacob -- mark the anniversaries of deaths, as well as of births;
>> and in the ancient ritual, they say:
>> the departed
>> whom we now remember
>> have entered into
>> the peace
>> of life eternal
>> may the beauty
>> of their lives
>> abide among us
>> as a loving
>> and living
>> benediction
>> And they say:
>> Father of Peace
>> grant peace
>> to those who mourn
>> and comfort
>> the bereaved among us
>> And so say I: v'imru omen.
>> Ronin
> Thank you, Ronin.
> That was indeed his very last post to the Newsgroup.
> And it was to be the last day of his young life.
> Mephi
I leave it on the primary system in hopes that, in the fullness
of time, coming across it while looking for something else will
no longer blow dust in my eyes.
Ronin
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