Testing

"Woooo-eeee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Jack Davis" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Dear readers,

While cruising the internet highway the above parties
had a minor collision resulting in an above average case
of virtual road-rage. Other passers-by may not be able
to resist the urge to participate. It is all just
another part of this amazing age we live in.

Regards of the day,

jd

I concur, jd. Other Observations comma gratuitous
1) Looks like someone flipped off D*l*n's profanity bit
2) I bet a library would have a book on IP, TCP, PPP,
SMNP and all the other li'l p's that seem to be p'sing
'im off.

If you examine any of my posts you will note that with me
it is all [censored] for tat. Others are being impolite and rude
first. This entire episode with this "bil" character is
classic and illustrates what I am saying perfectly. I am
just returning the compliments - admittedly with a bit of
interest thrown in for good measure. But if one is polite
with me then I am polite back. I value civilized discourse,
but when you are dealing with barbarians (like "bil"😉 you
have to get on their level. There is no other way with
them. After all, it is better to be [censored] than to be
[censored] on.

By the way, there is a difference between profanity and
rough language. I only resort to profanity when I am dealing
with a TOTAL idiot like this "bil" character. For most
normal idiots I find that a bit of rough language is more
than adequate.

And finally your alphabet soup of letters above is just
gobbledygook to me (you don't think I'm going to look up any
of your [censored] do you?). Apparently you do not care about
communicating any more than this idiot who goes by the name
of "bil". Have you ever noticed how no one (not even an
idiot like "bil"😉 ever has any difficulty understanding
me. That is because I know how to communicate. It comes from
having an educated mind, something that is a scarce
commodity here on ARBR.

--
Ed Dolan - [censored] in Minnesota

No.

Edward Dolan said:

Nope, I knew he couldn't instruct anyone in anything.
These computer nerds are like idiot savants. They do have
a knack for knowing how to navigate their way around a
computer (probably because they spend their entire waking
lives doing just that) but they are dumbfounded when they
have to explain anything. They just can't do it, the same
way nerds can't do much of anything except for their
specialty.

Here is a test for this nerd. What is "Internal Server
Error" and how does one correct for it? Sounds simple
doesn't it. But it is beyond him. He can do it, but he
can't explain it. So far he has proven that all he knows
how to do is call names and write phrases, but never yet a
complete, grammatically correct sentence. He should have
stayed in school instead of dropping out to pursue his
computer dreams. But that is a mistake that a lot of young
people make these days. They think there are short cuts
(the computer) to becoming educated.

True. bil

Just zis Guy said:

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:43:44 -0800, bil <[email hidden]>

wrote in message iH58c.898$Q45.854@fed1read02: said:

USE an F'ing test group to test test posts,

Don't be too harsh, this is the closest to an on-topic
posting from Ed this year...

Our Village Idiot admitted:

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Good Grief! I can't do the simplest thing ...

Ok, I was wrong. I am now officially amused.

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Maybe you can translate this idiot (bil) for me. Why has
he capitalized USE?

It is a command.

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Why is he using an an instead of an a?

cool.

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I would have written it: Use a test group to test posts.
And then I would have added a little something about
exactly how you do that with maybe the link.

LINK?? I don't got no steeenking links.

I gave you explicit instructions.

However...

Using a test newsgroup to post test messages 101.

test newsgroup = alt.alt.test

You somehow subscribed to ARBR, do the same thing
for the above referenced test newsgroup.

Post test message.

O.T.Some woman even replied to one of my test
messages. She wants to know if your free friday
night Doofus. ;-)

Our Village Idiot admitted:

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Good Grief! I can't do the simplest thing ...

Thank you Doofus.

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Maybe you can translate this idiot (bil) for me. Why has
he capitalized USE?

It is a command.

Quoted message said:

I would have written it: Use a test group to test posts.
And then I would have added a little something about
exactly how you do that with maybe the link. But no, I am
constantly being accosted by total idiots. It may be that
all of Usenet is designed for idiots, but I would say we
have more than our fair share here on this particular
newsgroup otherwise known as ARBR.

Using a test newsgroup 101:

Test newsgroup = alt.alt.test

Subscribe to test newsgroup.

Post test message to test newsgroup.

O.T.A woman replied to one of my test messages. She
wants to know if you're free friday night
Doofus. ;-)

Doofus, I am innocent. At least of this accusation.

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I would like to know what is going wrong with my Google
posting and it is precisely idiots like this "bil"
character who know more about how computers work than all
the rest of us put together.

You did say you ran XP home. Do you have it patched
up to date? firewalled? anti-virus ? etc. etc.

Maybe you be hacked.

If you are going to travel the internet it is your
patriotic duty to secure your devices.

Otherwise you are a traitor and a terrorist
sympathizer.

"Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]>
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:43:44 -0800, bil <[email hidden]>

wrote in message iH58c.898$Q45.854@fed1read02: said:

USE an F'ing test group to test test posts,

Don't be too harsh, this is the closest to an on-topic
posting from Ed this year...

Good Grief! I can't do the simplest thing like doing a
test of my OE newsreader without getting into an imbroglio
with someone. With me, it is just one tempest in a teapot
after another. The rest of you should be grateful that I
do not get onto the topic of recumbents. It would be the
same scenario there too I can assure you. Instead, you
should be hoping and praying that I stay off-topic for all
eternity for the sake of the sanity of all of us. Think of
Sherman as being a bulwark to protect you from my
onslaughts.

Maybe you can translate this idiot (bil) for me. Why has
he capitalized USE? Why is he using an an instead of an a?
What is a test group? Why does he repeat the word test
twice? Why does he end his screwed up sentence with a
comma? Why does he not even know how to

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reason to capitalize the first letter of that word either
since it does not start the sentence. What a [censored]
idiot he is!

I would have written it: Use a test group to test posts.
And then I would have added a little something about
exactly how you do that with maybe the link. But no, I am
constantly being accosted by total idiots. It may be that
all of Usenet is designed for idiots, but I would say we
have more than our fair share here on this particular
newsgroup otherwise known as ARBR.

--
Ed Dolan - Always Off Topic in Minnesota

.....which brings us back to one of my much earlier posts
having to do with the nature of persons of the 'bent
persuasion. Recumbents are an unusual type of bike, (trikes
even more so.) therefore it should be no surprise that they
attract an unusual sort of person, (trikes even more so) and
of course they migrate here to ARBR.

TV being so boring these days, many are using ARBR as a form
of entertainment as well as for information, (very little of
that anymore) This is the internet version or Reality TV.

There is also a strong likelihood that beer and/or wine,
and/or other forms of alcohol, an/or other chemicals may be
involved somewhere in the process.

But ain't if fun!?

jd

Edward Dolan said:

...Why does he repeat the word test twice?...

Mr. Dolan,

The repeated word "bil" used was "alt", not test. The Usenet
group's name is "alt.alt.test"

See: <groups.google.comgroupsOpen ↗
8&c2coff=1&safe=off&group=alt.alt.test>.

--
Tom Sherman - Quad Cities (Illinois Side)

"Perry Butler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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"Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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If you object to a little rough language on occasion
maybe you should restrict your Internet writing
activities to emails. Newsgroups may be too macho for
you. As far as I know there are no women looking in on
this newsgroup. Or at least they seldom post. That being
the case - who cares!

Ed

At least learn to read the response before you respond. I
said nothing about "rough language". Christ Ed, your just
learning how to use a newsreader!

Below are your words I was responding to from your
previous message.

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Ed,

Bil is correct on the alt.alt.test. I think what made you
mad was he was speaking in your language.

My mother used to say, "If you can't stand the heat, get
out of the kitchen!"

I am assuming your reference to "your Language" had
something to do with my forthrightness and blunt way of
saying things. Otherwise, why mention it as everyone on this
newsgroup knows by now that my language, other than for the
occasional roughness and rare profanities, is a cut above
everyone else's language, including your's and Sherman's to
name just a couple of miscreants.

The main thing you need to do is learn how to edit. It is
always far better to include too much of what you are
referring to rather than too little. But that is a mistake
that you make along with many others on this newsgroup.
Sherman is also guilty of this, but he knows better and so I
hold him accountable for the scoundrel that he is. We could
all take some lessons from Scott (Freewheeling) who knows
how all of this should be done.

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You still don't have a clue!

Actually, I do have every possible clue that I can imagine.
My insights into how all of this newsgroup [censored] works is
boundless compared to most others. The pontificates like
Cletus, who the naive here admire, are actually the biggest
bores in the world. It is too bad he has kill filed me as I
would particularly delight in telling this pompous ass what
I think of him.

But if it amuses you to think that I still do not have a
clue, I will play along. After all, we are both of us just a
couple of jerks from Minnesota, right?

--
Ed Dolan - Still Clueless in Minnesota

"Jack Davis" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<-
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.....which brings us back to one of my much earlier posts
having to do with the nature of persons of the 'bent
persuasion. Recumbents are an unusual type of bike,
(trikes even more so.) therefore it should be no surprise
that they attract an unusual sort of person, (trikes even
more so) and of course they migrate here to ARBR.

TV being so boring these days, many are using ARBR as a
form of entertainment as well as for information, (very
little of that anymore) This is the internet version or
Reality TV.

There is also a strong likelihood that beer and/or wine,
and/or other forms of alcohol, an/or other chemicals may
be involved somewhere in the process.

Jack, I strictly limit myself to two glasses of vino a day
upon doctor's orders. I must admit the glasses are getting
larger and larger but I stay at two regardless.

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But ain't it fun!?

You read me like a book. The damn cable TV is nothing but
highway robbery. If it weren't for Fox News I would never
even look at the damn thing. But this newsgroup I must admit
does engage me. What a cast of characters we have here. And
we all have our roles to play. It puzzles me that everyone
here doesn't just relax more and enjoy the human comedy. We
shall all pass from this scene soon enough and be dead and
forgotten. In the meantime, let us have some fun.

Frankly, if I want information about recumbents I will go to
RCN. Sometimes I think the best advice we could give any
newbies wanting information about recumbents is just to
refer them to RCN. Instead, old Cletus goes off on his
tangent and old Sherman goes off on his tangent - and it is
just about the funniest thing imaginable. To know how to
edit information for a reader is a rare skill and requires
intelligence. That is why Bob Bryant (the editor of RCN) is
where he is at and why the rest of us are where we are at.

--
Regards,

Ed Dolan - Minnesota

Edward Dolan said:

... The damn cable TV is nothing but highway robbery....

Yet you still pay for it?

--
Tom Sherman - Quad Cities (Illinois Side)

"Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The main thing you need to do is learn how to edit. It is
always far better to include too much of what you are
referring to rather than too little.

Hopefully some day you will learn to use a decent newsreader
and learn how to efficiently and properly edit a post. You
seem to be the only one who complains about the way people
write. Did you ever bother to think that maybe it's you?
Does everyone have to s p e l l everything out for you in d
e t a i l ? Open the box! Expand your horizons!

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Actually, I do have every possible clue that I can
imagine. My insights into how all of this newsgroup [censored]
works is boundless compared to most others.

You can't even function on Goggle!!! Of course, in your
denial you will tell us that it's your computer. Sorry, I
use Goggle enough in my job to know that it's the person
running the computer that's the problem. Again, from a
pervious post, in our Elementary Lab we have a poster that
says, "The Trouble With Computers Is They Do Exactly What
You Tell Them To Do!" My elementary students are apparently
more educated than you. Didn't you learn anything when you
were the prison librarian?

You still don't have a clue!

Perry Butler - Minnesota

Tom Sherman <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Edward Dolan said:

...Why does he repeat the word test twice?...

Mr. Dolan,

The repeated word "bil" used was "alt", not test. The
Usenet group's name is "alt.alt.test"

No, here is the complete text of his original post having to
do with his instruction. He uses the word test twice in the
first line of his sentence.

USE an F'ing test group to test test posts,

alt.alt.test

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See: <groups.google.comgroupsOpen ↗
8&c2coff=1&safe=off&group=alt.alt.test>.

OK, thanks Tom. Despite your many other failings, you do
know how to instruct someone in how to do something. But
after all, you went to college and so you have a mind that
can put itself in another's mind and then take it from
there. Uneducated people can never do that.

--
Regards,

Ed Dolan - Minnesota

bil <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<n9R8c.5753$Q45.3860@fed1read02>...

Edward Dolan said:

Quoted message said:

Maybe you can translate this idiot (bil) for me. Why has
he capitalized USE?

It is a command.

Quoted message said:

I would have written it: Use a test group to test posts.
And then I would have added a little something about
exactly how you do that with maybe the link. But no, I
am constantly being accosted by total idiots. It may be
that all of Usenet is designed for idiots, but I would
say we have more than our fair share here on this
particular newsgroup otherwise known as ARBR.

Using a test newsgroup 101:

Test newsgroup = alt.alt.test

Subscribe to test newsgroup.

Post test message to test newsgroup.

OK, so why didn't you put it like that in the first place.
Instead you got sidetracked from having read previous posts
of mine having nothing to do with this particular message
but you wanted to blast me anyway. Every post is sui generis
with me except with certain regulars with whom I have
established a long and rocky relationship based on hundreds
of messages. You were new to me and I to you. When you start
off calling someone a [censored] idiot there is no way for the
conversation to go but down into the pits of hell.

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O.T.A woman replied to one of my test messages. She
wants to know if you're free friday night
Doofus. ;-)

I am not interested in your [censored] babes. Don't you know they
are all infected and that you can get terrible diseases from
them, some of which can even kill you as dead as a mackerel.
By the way, don't you capitalize the days of the week? How
about the months of the year? I think I learned all of that
in Kindergarten, a grade that many computer nerds seemed to
have missed in their education.

--
Ed Dolan - Doofus in Minnesota

Edward Dolan said:

No, here is the complete text of his original post having
to do with his instruction. He uses the word test twice in
the first line of his sentence.

USE an F'ing test group to test test posts,

The first "test" is an adjective describing "group", the
second "test" is a verb, and the third "test" is an
adjective describing "posts". So where is the problem?

--
Tom Sherman - Quad Cities (Illinois Side)

Some whiner shrilled:

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OK, so why didn't you put it like that in the first place.

We would expect an "intellectual" to be able to
parse a sentence. Mr. Sherman, again kindly
assisting you, explained how to parse my sentence.
You should be proud to have him as your friend.

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Instead you got sidetracked from having read previous
posts of mine having nothing to do with this particular
message but you wanted to blast me anyway.

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You were new to me and I to you.

You are incoherent. Oh right, never mind.

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When you start off calling someone a [censored] idiot there is
no way for the conversation to go but down into the pits of
hell.

You are a LIAR. I called you:

"Our Village Idiot" "Doofus" "Cretin"

Your imagination is running wild. Calm down. Have an
extra glass of wine....

Tom Sherman <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Edward Dolan said:

... The damn cable TV is nothing but highway robbery....

Yet you still pay for it?

For Fox News, as mentioned in my previous post to which you
are responding, and also for The History Channel. What needs
to happen is for cable TV to be offered a la carte so we
could select what channels we want and only pay for those we
selected. If that were to happen, I think 90% of the cable
channels would disappear overnight.

You are editing me too severely. I am shortly going to
take offense at this and the usual hell is going to break
out. But worse for you, I might decided to play this game
too. If I do, it will quickly degenerate into nothing but
name calling.

--
Ed Dolan - Minnesota

"Perry Butler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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"Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The main thing you need to do is learn how to edit. It
is always far better to include too much of what you are
referring to rather than too little.

Hopefully some day you will learn to use a decent
newsreader and learn how to efficiently and properly edit
a post. You seem to be the only one who complains about
the way people write. Did you ever bother to think that
maybe it's you? Does everyone have to s p e l l everything
out for you in d e t a i l ? Open the box! Expand your
horizons!

I am only going by what I see in front to me. And what do I
see? Mostly gibberish by what appears to be an illiterate
("bil"😉. I can separate the typos from the misspellings and
I do not ordinarily mention either unless the writer has
otherwise irritated me. When I look over my own posts, I see
nothing but perfection except for the occasional typo. Most
here do not know how to edit. Since they do not know how to
do it properly, they should not do it at all. They should
include the complete previous post that they are responding
to and be done with it.

If someone is giving instruction about how to do something,
then it should be spelled out in infinite detail. It should
be done in such as way that even idiots like you and me can
follow the instructions. If it is not, then it is the fault
of the instructor. I wonder what kind of an instructor you
are if you aren't following this elementary admonition.

By the way, if you are teaching in the elementary grades,
then you do not have students, you have pupils who need to
be instructed. Studentship only kicks in for most young
people if and when they go off to college and become
responsible for their own learning.

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Actually, I do have every possible clue that I can
imagine. My insights into how all of this newsgroup [censored]
works is boundless compared to most others.

You can't even function on Goggle!!! Of course, in your
denial you will tell us that it's your computer. Sorry, I
use Goggle enough in my job to know that it's the person
running the computer that's the problem. Again, from a
previous post, in our Elementary Lab we have a poster that
says, "The Trouble With Computers Is They Do Exactly What
You Tell Them To Do!" My elementary students are
apparently more educated than you. Didn't you learn
anything when you were the prison librarian?

You can't even function on Goggle!!! Of course, in your
denial you will tell us that it's your computer. Sorry, I
use Goggle enough in my job to know that it's the person
running the computer that's the problem. Again, from a
previous post, in our Elementary Lab we have a poster that
says, "The Trouble With Computers Is They Do Exactly What
You Tell Them To Do!" My elementary students are apparently
more educated than you. Didn't you learn anything when you
were the prison librarian?

My Google wasn't posting properly. I kept getting the
message "Internal Server Error". Do you have any idea what
that was all about? I thought not. The truth is that hardly
anyone understands these computers except for the few
geniuses who developed them. That is always the way it is
with high technology. All the rest of us ever want to know
is how do you turn it on an how do you turn it off.

When I talk about "newsgroup [censored]" I am talking about the
content of the posts (what is being said) and not the
techniques of how it gets to the reader. Frankly, the
technical aspects of any of this stuff does not interest me
in the slightest. I just want it to work and not have to
think about how it works. That is for lesser minds than
mine. I will take the high road and you can take the low
road. Just because computer nerds are necessary doesn't mean
we have to like them. Kind of like plumbers and electricians
that way. And civil engineers too come to think of it.

I do all my posting via Google and as long as it works I do
not see why anyone would want a newsreader. But maybe I am
missing something here. If my Google keeps screwing with me,
I will have to resort to a newsreader. So far, OE and Forte
Agent appear to be good. The main thing I like about them is
that they are free. Why would any home user pay for a
newsreader? Maybe you could answer that question since you
have all the clues and I don't.

--
Ed Dolan - Clueless in Minnesota

bil <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<GAR8c.5755$Q45.4755@fed1read02>...

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Doofus, I am innocent. At least of this accusation.

Quoted message said:

I would like to know what is going wrong with my Google
posting and it is precisely idiots like this "bil"
character who know more about how computers work than
all the rest of us put together.

You did say you ran XP home. Do you have it patched
up to date? firewalled? anti-virus ? etc. etc.

Maybe you be hacked.

If you are going to travel the internet it is your
patriotic duty to secure your devices.

Otherwise you are a traitor and a terrorist
sympathizer.

I am only going to do so much in connection with serving my
computer and the Internet. Why is all of this so screwed up
in the first place?

I do have an anti-virus, a firewall and a few other
miscellaneous utilities, but enough is enough. I have better
things to do with my life (what remains of it) then to put
it at the service of these confounded infernal machines.
Google works just fine 90% of the time, but the other 10%
when it is not working it is infuriating, especially when I
need to post something right away to counter the latest
asinine post of my nemesis, Mr. Sherman. That is a scenario
designed to drive any sane man insane. And as numerous
associates of mine will tell you, I do not have far to go in
that direction.

--
Ed Dolan - Minnesota

bil <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<Zba9c.7833$Q45.2456@fed1read02>...

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Edward Dolan said:

OK, so why didn't you put it like that in the first
place.

We would expect an "intellectual" to be able to
parse a sentence. Mr. Sherman, again kindly
assisting you, explained how to parse my sentence.
You should be proud to have him as your friend.

Mr. Sherman is most definitely not my friend. He is not even
a worthy adversary anymore. I don't believe we are yet
bitter enemies, but that day may not be far off.

Why the hell should I have to parse your sentence. Write it
so it can be understood by anyone familiar with the English
language right off the bat in the first place. You have no
consideration for your readers because you are basically
discourteous. You are most likely an arrogant fellow who
thinks the world should bend over backward in order to
understand you and accommodate you. Unlike you, I go to
considerable effort to make sure my readers can understand
me with out having to do any "parsing".

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Quoted message said:

Instead you got sidetracked from having read previous
posts of mine
having nothing to do with this particular message but
you wanted to blast me anyway.

Quoted message said:

You were new to me and I to you.

You are incoherent. Oh right, never mind.

You knew exactly what you were doing and so did I. That is
why we are getting along together so perfectly.

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When you start off calling someone a [censored] idiot there
is
no way for the conversation to go but down into the pits
of hell.

You are a LIAR. I called you:

"Our Village Idiot" "Doofus" "Cretin"

No, you left off the F'ing word which said it all. You are
the liar and the scoundrel for not including your entire
post. Those who selectively edit like you are beneath
contempt. Join your partner in crime, Sherman. He likes to
do that sort of thing too.

Message 19 in thread From: bil ([email hidden]) Subject:
Re: Testing

View this article only Newsgroups:
alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent Date: 2004-03-23 17:41:35 PST

Hey Doofus,

USE an F'ing test group to test test posts,

alt.alt.test

Cretin...

Our Village Idiot diarrhetorically spewed:

Quoted message said:

My Google is all messed up yet once again. All I get is
Internal Server Error message. I am now trying to send
this via my Outlook Express newsreader. I am beginning to
see why most of you are using newsreaders. If this doesn't
work, I will maybe try Forte Agent.

But while we are name calling here are a few for you: Idiot
(of course), moron, blockhead, dummkopf and dolt.

Quoted message said:

Your imagination is running wild. Calm down. Have an
extra glass of wine....

Maybe if you had a few drinks you could begin to see
yourself as I see you. Not good!

--
Ed Dolan - Running Wild in Minnesota