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Chris Zacho The Wheelman said:

The thread "Actually you are the first person to bring up
this issue" is, as of this posting, about four hundred
posts long.

Effectively burying everything else when ever someone
posts another reply.

Google Groups sez 'Sheldon "Party Doll" Brown made it to
528...

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Quoted message said:

Google Groups sez 'Sheldon "Party Doll" Brown made it
to 528...

Sheldon "The Champeen?" Brown

Nobody likes a show-off!! ;-)

Cheers,

Scott..

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:10:32 -0500 (EST), [email hidden]

(Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman') said:

The thread "Actually you are the first person to bring up
this issue" is, as of this posting, about four hundred
posts long.

According to groups.google.com: "Should I wear a helmet?"
933 posts (not including spin-offs and parallel threads).
"Great Helmet War" 703 posts

I'm sure there's more.

What was the infamous Sheldon/Party Doll thread about,
anyway?
--
Rick Onanian

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Rick Onanian
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:10:32 -0500 (EST), [email hidden]

(Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman') said:

The thread "Actually you are the first person to bring up
this issue" is, as of this posting, about four hundred
posts long.

According to groups.google.com: "Should I wear a helmet?"
933 posts (not including spin-offs and parallel threads).
"Great Helmet War" 703 posts

I'm sure there's more.

What was the infamous Sheldon/Party Doll thread about,
anyway?
--
Rick Onanian

Dear Rick,

Careful, you're getting close to using google
groups to actually look things up.

The passage below may describe the controversy.
After all, it describes almost any controversy on
rec.bicycles.tech.

Carl Fogel

"...our histories of six thousand moons make no
mention of any other regions than the two great
empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu. Which two mighty
powers have, as I was going to tell you, been
engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty
moons past. It began upon the following occasion.
It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of
breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the
larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather,
while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and
breaking it according to the ancient practice,
happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon
the emperor his father published an edict,
commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties,
to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people
so highly resented this law, that our histories tell
us, there have been six rebellions raised on that
account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and
another his crown. These civil commotions were
constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu;
and when they were quelled, the exiles always
fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that
eleven thousand persons have at several times
suffered death, rather than submit to break their
eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes
have been published upon this controversy: but
the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden,
and the whole party rendered incapable by law of
holding employments. During the course of these
troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently
expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of
making a schism in religion, by offending against a
fundamental the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon
the text; for the words are these: 'that all true
believers break their eggs at the convenient end.'

And which is the convenient end, seems, in my
humble opinion to be left to every man's conscience,
or at least in the power of the chief magistrate to
determine. Now, the Big-endian exiles have found
so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court,
and so much private assistance and encouragement
from their party here at home, that a bloody war has
been carried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we
have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater
number of smaller vessels, together with thirty
thousand of our best seamen and soldiers; and
the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to
be somewhat greater than ours. However, they
have now equipped a numerous fleet, and are just
preparing to make a descent upon us; and his imperial
majesty, placing great confidence in your valour and
strength, has commanded me to lay this account of
his affairs before you."

Quoted message said:

What was the infamous Sheldon/Party Doll thread
about, anyway?
--
Rick Onanian

I have to admit, I'm curious about that one myself...

- - "May you have the wind at your back. And a really low
gear for the hills!"

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carlfogel said:

Dear Rick,

Careful, you're getting close to using google groups to
actually look things up.

The passage below may describe the controversy. After all,
it describes almost any controversy on
rec.bicycles.tech....

Dear Carl,

You are repeating misinformation. The real controversy
was not over which end of the egg to break, but whether
the superior egg breaking tool was made by Campagnolo
or Shimano.

--
Tom Sherman - Quad Cities (Illinois Side)

Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman said:

Quoted message said:

What was the infamous Sheldon/Party Doll thread about,
anyway?
--
Rick Onanian

Quoted message said:

I have to admit, I'm curious about that one myself...

You'll be finding that out in November, then.

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Benjamin Weiner said:

Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman said:

Quoted message said:

What was the infamous Sheldon/Party Doll thread about,
anyway?
--
Rick Onanian

Quoted message said:

I have to admit, I'm curious about that one myself...

You'll be finding that out in November, then.

Fine, I've gone and looked it up myself. Some troll [censored]
about a political tagline that Sheldon put on a post, then
the thread took off in various directions, mostly humorous
or political. That's as much as I've read in the first 20
messages. If more were funny, then I'd continue...

I like the bit about what size cone wrench is necessary for
removing the troll's head from his ass.
--
Rick Onanian

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Tom Sherman

Bcarlfogel said:

Dear Rick,

Careful, you're getting close to using google groups to
actually look things up.

The passage below may describe the controversy. After all,
it describes almost any controversy on
rec.bicycles.tech....

Dear Carl,

You are repeating misinformation. The real controversy
was not over which end of the egg to break, but whether
the superior egg breaking tool was made by Campagnolo
or Shimano.

--
Tom Sherman - Quad Cities (Illinois Side) [/B]

Dear Tom,

Are you sure? I thought that it might be about
whether eggs should wear helmets.

Carl Fogel