On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:49:46 -0700, Ronin wrote
(in article <4abd2ad7.25191777@127.0.0.1>):
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> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:33:50 GMT, Mephistopheles
> <no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:50:14 GMT, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin)
>> wrote:
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>>> X-No-Archive: yes
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>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:58:41 GMT, MissedTheBus
>>> <MissedTheBus@The-Fort.com> wrote in alt.o*p.n**p:
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>>>> X-Brussel-Sprouts: NO
>>>> X-Asparagus: Yes
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>>>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:00:54 GMT, Mephistopheles
>>>> <no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
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>>>>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:55:20 GMT, MissedTheBus
>>>>> <MissedTheBus@The-Fort.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:38:25 GMT, Mephistopheles
>>>>>> <no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:53:31 +0100, A Grateful Lurker NP-f48
>>>>>>> <agratefulREMOVElurker@THIShushmail.comINVALID> wrote:
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>>>> snip snap snup
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>>>>> 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.
>
>
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>>>> Well I had already went to bed, cos I've got the flu.
>
>
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>>>> 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!
>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
>
>
Silent perhaps, but far from empty are those ringside chairs. Observation
posts for the halcyon days of this group.
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