It is OK to post to ARBR!



"JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>> Jimbo strikes me as a high school kid who is permanently stuck at that
>> age.
>> He loves to read his own writing and does not care to connect with
>> anyone.
>> Word play is not the same thing as communicating.
>
> Once again ... opinoin stated as fact from someone whom I have
> repeatedly told that his opinions don't mean ****!!!

But my opinions matter because I am highly intelligent and your opinions
don't matter since you are stuck at the high school level. If and when I
want to know what high school kids think, then I will defer to you.

> Ed is an admitted hermit who has indicated that he has no use for his
> fellow man except for the aritfacts he produces and he has the gall to
> lecture me about connecting with others. Get real ... Ed. Have you
> forgotten your own words regarding how you really really feel. Allow
> me to remind you...

We hermits are unjustly castigated. I have always liked to be alone. Is this
such a great sin? I have spent my life listening to the great masterpieces
of Beethoven et al. I have simply never had any use for people. They have
always proven themselves to be a pain in the the royal neck and ass. I
prefer to contemplate the eternal verities unencumbered by any actual
relationships with real people. What is so wrong about this?

> "I frankly do not have the slightest idea what newsgroups are all
> about."
>
> "Usenet is strictly for idiots, assholes and jerks - positively no
> exceptions! When I am on Usenet I try to be the biggest idiot, asshole
> and jerk of them all. I set the standard for one and all. I believe I
> can state with absolute assurance that I am the Greatest Idiot, the
> Greatest Asshole and the Greatest Jerk that Usenet has ever known in
> its' long and dishonored history. For Christ's sakes, I prove it every
> time I post. Can't any of you poor bastards read?"
>
> Readers, does this sound like someone who should be lecturing anyone
> about word play, communication or connecting with others???

Yes, actually it does! I have risen above the common run of mankind. You
need to listen to me most carefully to get a perspective that you would
otherwise never get. I have no ego at all and I do not care what others
think of me. I know what I think of myself and that is all that matters to
me. The rest of you can benefit greatly from my lack of ego. Poor Jimbo can
never escape the drags of his own ego. He is very much like Ed Gin that way.

Here it is again for all of you who cannot read carefully:

> "Usenet is strictly for idiots, assholes and jerks - positively no
> exceptions! When I am on Usenet I try to be the biggest idiot, asshole
> and jerk of them all. I set the standard for one and all. I believe I
> can state with absolute assurance that I am the Greatest Idiot, the
> Greatest Asshole and the Greatest Jerk that Usenet has ever known in
> its' long and dishonored history. For Christ's sakes, I prove it every
> time I post. Can't any of you poor bastards read?" - Ed Dolan

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
Edward Dolan wrote:
> "JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Edward Dolan wrote:
> >
> >> Jimbo strikes me as a high school kid who is permanently stuck at that
> >> age.
> >> He loves to read his own writing and does not care to connect with
> >> anyone.
> >> Word play is not the same thing as communicating.
> >
> > Once again ... opinoin stated as fact from someone whom I have
> > repeatedly told that his opinions don't mean ****!!!
>
> But my opinions matter because I am highly intelligent and your opinions
> don't matter since you are stuck at the high school level. If and when I
> want to know what high school kids think, then I will defer to you.

An opinion regarding your opinions. Could anything possibly be more
worthless?

> > Ed is an admitted hermit who has indicated that he has no use for his
> > fellow man except for the aritfacts he produces and he has the gall to
> > lecture me about connecting with others. Get real ... Ed. Have you
> > forgotten your own words regarding how you really really feel. Allow
> > me to remind you...
>
> We hermits are unjustly castigated. I have always liked to be alone. Is this
> such a great sin? I have spent my life listening to the great masterpieces
> of Beethoven et al. I have simply never had any use for people. They have
> always proven themselves to be a pain in the the royal neck and ass. I
> prefer to contemplate the eternal verities unencumbered by any actual
> relationships with real people. What is so wrong about this?

If you have no use for people why bother with them here. As ususal,
your rationalization make no sense.

> > "I frankly do not have the slightest idea what newsgroups are all
> > about."
> >
> > "Usenet is strictly for idiots, assholes and jerks - positively no
> > exceptions! When I am on Usenet I try to be the biggest idiot, asshole
> > and jerk of them all. I set the standard for one and all. I believe I
> > can state with absolute assurance that I am the Greatest Idiot, the
> > Greatest Asshole and the Greatest Jerk that Usenet has ever known in
> > its' long and dishonored history. For Christ's sakes, I prove it every
> > time I post. Can't any of you poor bastards read?"
> >
> > Readers, does this sound like someone who should be lecturing anyone
> > about word play, communication or connecting with others???
>
> Yes, actually it does! I have risen above the common run of mankind. You
> need to listen to me most carefully to get a perspective that you would
> otherwise never get. I have no ego at all and I do not care what others
> think of me. I know what I think of myself and that is all that matters to
> me. The rest of you can benefit greatly from my lack of ego. Poor Jimbo can
> never escape the drags of his own ego. He is very much like Ed Gin that way.

You don't have an ego??? Thanks for the best joke that I've heard in
quite some time. The only way you will ever escape your ego is by
death ... an event that the ARBR readership will celebrate. You still
are operating from the basic misconception that the readership can
benefit from your alleged wisdom whereas what they coud benefit by is
your absence. Begone ... TROLL!!!

Jim McNamara
 
"JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> > Ed is an admitted hermit who has indicated that he has no use for his
>> > fellow man except for the aritfacts he produces and he has the gall to
>> > lecture me about connecting with others. Get real ... Ed. Have you
>> > forgotten your own words regarding how you really really feel. Allow
>> > me to remind you...
>>
>> We hermits are unjustly castigated. I have always liked to be alone. Is
>> this
>> such a great sin? I have spent my life listening to the great
>> masterpieces
>> of Beethoven et al. I have simply never had any use for people. They have
>> always proven themselves to be a pain in the the royal neck and ass. I
>> prefer to contemplate the eternal verities unencumbered by any actual
>> relationships with real people. What is so wrong about this?
>
> If you have no use for people why bother with them here. As ususal,
> your rationalization make no sense.

I do not bother with people anymore here than I do in real life. I am only
bothering (ever so slightly) with their artifacts, i.e., what they write in
their messages.

>> > "I frankly do not have the slightest idea what newsgroups are all
>> > about."
>> >
>> > "Usenet is strictly for idiots, assholes and jerks - positively no
>> > exceptions! When I am on Usenet I try to be the biggest idiot, asshole
>> > and jerk of them all. I set the standard for one and all. I believe I
>> > can state with absolute assurance that I am the Greatest Idiot, the
>> > Greatest Asshole and the Greatest Jerk that Usenet has ever known in
>> > its' long and dishonored history. For Christ's sakes, I prove it every
>> > time I post. Can't any of you poor bastards read?"
>> >
>> > Readers, does this sound like someone who should be lecturing anyone
>> > about word play, communication or connecting with others???
>>
>> Yes, actually it does! I have risen above the common run of mankind. You
>> need to listen to me most carefully to get a perspective that you would
>> otherwise never get. I have no ego at all and I do not care what others
>> think of me. I know what I think of myself and that is all that matters
>> to
>> me. The rest of you can benefit greatly from my lack of ego. Poor Jimbo
>> can
>> never escape the drag of his own ego. He is very much like Ed Gin that
>> way.
>
> You don't have an ego??? Thanks for the best joke that I've heard in
> quite some time. The only way you will ever escape your ego is by
> death ... an event that the ARBR readership will celebrate. You still
> are operating from the basic misconception that the readership can
> benefit from your alleged wisdom whereas what they coud benefit by is
> your absence. Begone ... TROLL!!!

I could not kid about myself and others the way I do if I were the least bit
insecure in my own ego. You should forget about your own sensitivities and
concentrate on others for a change. You would find it quite liberating. I
only get concerned with myself when something important is at stake. Nothing
important is ever at stake on Usenet.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hi Jim,
>Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom S,
>with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on arbr. Ed
>challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to be a
>nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
>Al K

Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.

--
Kevin
 
Kevin O'Neill wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi Jim,
> >Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom S,
> >with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on arbr. Ed
> >challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to be a
> >nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
> >Al K
>
> Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
> high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.

Some people would rather complain and post revisionist history about
past events.

The Google archives will reveal that political arguments occurred on
alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent before I posted my first message.

--
Tom Sherman - Behind the Cheddar Curtain
Post Free or Die!
 
"Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Kevin O'Neill wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Jim,
>> >Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom S,
>> >with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on arbr.
>> >Ed
>> >challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to be
>> >a
>> >nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
>> >Al K
>>
>> Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
>> high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.
>
> Some people would rather complain and post revisionist history about
> past events.
>
> The Google archives will reveal that political arguments occurred on
> alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent before I posted my first message.

Mr. Sherman, who knows more about ARBR than any other person extant, is
quite correct of course. There have not been any prolonged political
discussions on ARBR for quite some time now and I hope it stays that way.
But I am always at the ready to take on any liberal fool who thinks ARBR is
his to do with as he pleases. We NEVER want to return to the days when
liberals were given free reign on this newsgroup.

Both Mr. Sherman and I were and are primarily responders. It is a good thing
we are or we would take over and dominate this newsgroup. But we only try to
keep ARBR intelligent and do not allow fools to take it over, like they have
so many other newsgroups.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
Ed,

Look in a mirror. You are the fool who thinks ARBR is his to do with
as he pleases and you have taken over and dominated this newsgroup.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that what the All-Time High Poster
to ARBR thread was about. What a hypocrite.

So how was your vacation when I was on vacation? I'm back at least for
the time being.

Yep ... top posting, again ... Jim McNamara

Edward Dolan wrote:
> "Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > Kevin O'Neill wrote:
> >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hi Jim,
> >> >Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom S,
> >> >with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on arbr.
> >> >Ed
> >> >challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to be
> >> >a
> >> >nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
> >> >Al K
> >>
> >> Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
> >> high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.
> >
> > Some people would rather complain and post revisionist history about
> > past events.
> >
> > The Google archives will reveal that political arguments occurred on
> > alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent before I posted my first message.
>
> Mr. Sherman, who knows more about ARBR than any other person extant, is
> quite correct of course. There have not been any prolonged political
> discussions on ARBR for quite some time now and I hope it stays that way.
> But I am always at the ready to take on any liberal fool who thinks ARBR is
> his to do with as he pleases. We NEVER want to return to the days when
> liberals were given free reign on this newsgroup.
>
> Both Mr. Sherman and I were and are primarily responders. It is a good thing
> we are or we would take over and dominate this newsgroup. But we only try to
> keep ARBR intelligent and do not allow fools to take it over, like they have
> so many other newsgroups.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
"JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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[...]
> Quit your whining, already. You have only yourself to blame for the
> "stalking" that you have fallen victim of from your many adversaries.
> You intentionally go trolling for fights. When you encounter a
> tenacious, formidable adversary, and find yourself hopelessly embroiled
> in an embarrassing no-win cyber-skirmish, in desperation, you move to
> disencumber yourself by seeking to discredit and dismiss your adversary
> by labeling him or her as a stalker. This thinly disguised ploy of
> yours has failed countless times. If you really want to escape your
> self-inflicted dilemma, then turn tail, crawl on out of here. Return
> to the rock that you slithered out from under.
[...]

Nothing but a pitiful and pathetic stalker. Let this be a warning to the
rest of you. Unless you want to end up like him, you had best find something
of your own to say.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
Edward Dolan wrote:
> "JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> [...]
> > Quit your whining, already. You have only yourself to blame for the
> > "stalking" that you have fallen victim of from your many adversaries.
> > You intentionally go trolling for fights. When you encounter a
> > tenacious, formidable adversary, and find yourself hopelessly embroiled
> > in an embarrassing no-win cyber-skirmish, in desperation, you move to
> > disencumber yourself by seeking to discredit and dismiss your adversary
> > by labeling him or her as a stalker. This thinly disguised ploy of
> > yours has failed countless times. If you really want to escape your
> > self-inflicted dilemma, then turn tail, crawl on out of here. Return
> > to the rock that you slithered out from under.
> [...]
>
> Nothing but a pitiful and pathetic stalker. Let this be a warning to the
> rest of you. Unless you want to end up like him, you had best find something
> of your own to say.

Truth hurts. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. You deserve
it ... you earned it and you shouldn't be deprived of it. What does
around comes aroud. Why is it that when this happens the victimizer
claims to be the victim and the game just isn't fun anymore?

Jim McNamara.



> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
JimmyMac wrote:
> Truth hurts. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. You deserve
> it ... you earned it and you shouldn't be deprived of it. What does
> around comes aroud. Why is it that when this happens the victimizer
> claims to be the victim and the game just isn't fun anymore?
>
> Jim McNamara.
>
Jim,
Turn on your spell checker, please. Don't give anyone even the ammo of a
typo on this group.
Bill Baka
 
Bill Baka wrote:
> JimmyMac wrote:
> > Truth hurts. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. You deserve
> > it ... you earned it and you shouldn't be deprived of it. What goes
> > around comes around. Why is it that when this happens the victimizer
> > claims to be the victim and the game just isn't fun anymore?
> >
> > Jim McNamara.
> >
> Jim,
> Turn on your spell checker, please. Don't give anyone even the ammo of a
> typo on this group.
> Bill Baka

Hi Bill,

Did you have anyone in particular in mind ;^) ??? The problem is that
I don't use a newsreader, but probably should. I just use the Google
Groups facility, so I am disadvantaged being without a spell checker.
On the other hand, those that use typos for ammunition generally have
gotten the intended message regardless, although it bugs me to see that
I've mistyped something. Perhaps I should just cut and paste into Word
and use its spell checker. Had I done so, I wouldn't have made the
above mistake s... now corrected (does/goes & aroud/around).

Jim McNamara
 
JimmyMac wrote:
> Bill Baka wrote:
>> JimmyMac wrote:
>>> Truth hurts. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. You deserve
>>> it ... you earned it and you shouldn't be deprived of it. What goes
>>> around comes around. Why is it that when this happens the victimizer
>>> claims to be the victim and the game just isn't fun anymore?
>>>
>>> Jim McNamara.
>>>
>> Jim,
>> Turn on your spell checker, please. Don't give anyone even the ammo of a
>> typo on this group.
>> Bill Baka
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Did you have anyone in particular in mind ;^) ??? The problem is that
> I don't use a newsreader, but probably should. I just use the Google
> Groups facility, so I am disadvantaged being without a spell checker.
> On the other hand, those that use typos for ammunition generally have
> gotten the intended message regardless, although it bugs me to see that
> I've mistyped something. Perhaps I should just cut and paste into Word
> and use its spell checker. Had I done so, I wouldn't have made the
> above mistake s... now corrected (does/goes & aroud/around).
>
> Jim McNamara
>
Jim,
I use Mozilla Thunderbird, both in Windows (2000 right now), and with
Linux. It has a basic spell checker but some of the Internet things like
ROTFL catch it up, as do any technical words. Sometimes when I am groggy
and can't sleep I may make a grammar error that it won't catch, like
their, there, they're. I could drop out and use Word or Open Office but
I really don't take posting on here as a literary masterpiece kind of
thing. There are only about a half dozen nit-pickers and one nasty jerk,
whom I need not name, and it isn't Dolan. This is just verbal sparring
with the fingers, in between working and riding/running, whatever.
I am only on RBM but somebody keeps making these darn cross posts.
Recumbents look interesting, but I do too much off road to consider one.
..soc is OK, too, but I tend to get into the 'misc' threads a lot.
Basically it is a time killer.
Good Day to you, I'm going out to sweat on the bike.
Bill Baka
 
Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman wrote:
> Kevin O'Neill wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Hi Jim,
> > >Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom S,
> > >with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on arbr. Ed
> > >challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to be a
> > >nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
> > >Al K
> >
> > Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
> > high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.

For the record, that second sentence was intended to be an if-then, not
a statement of fact. I don't know the group well enough to say anyone
is or is not a troll. I guess. I dunno, this Dolan chap does seem to
be much more noise than signal. Onwards;

> Some people would rather complain and post revisionist history about
> past events.

Oh sure, arguing, changing history, all that is good fun. The first
few messages I read seemed to be in a dispairing tone, and made me
wonder if perhaps a liberal application of kf might raise the happiness
level.

> The Google archives will reveal that political arguments occurred on
> alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent before I posted my first message.

My point was more that if anyone, me, you, whomever, is galling anyone,
him, her, whoever, so much that they feel the need to have long threads
about how much me or you or whomever are bugging him or her or whoever,
him or her or whoever might be better served by killfiling me or you or
whomever than endlessly arguing, since that's not called "feeding the
troll" for nothing. If you see what I mean.

--
Kevin
 
"Bill Baka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
[...]
> I use Mozilla Thunderbird, both in Windows (2000 right now), and with
> Linux. It has a basic spell checker but some of the Internet things like
> ROTFL catch it up, as do any technical words. Sometimes when I am groggy
> and can't sleep I may make a grammar error that it won't catch, like
> their, there, they're. I could drop out and use Word or Open Office but I
> really don't take posting on here as a literary masterpiece kind of thing.
> There are only about a half dozen nit-pickers and one nasty jerk, whom I
> need not name, and it isn't Dolan. This is just verbal sparring with the
> fingers, in between working and riding/running, whatever.

I will only take someone to task for spelling and grammatical errors if and
when his level of assholeness exceeds all bounds. Jim McNamara does not yet
fall into that category, but he is getting close on occasion.

> I am only on RBM but somebody keeps making these darn cross posts.
> Recumbents look interesting, but I do too much off road to consider one.
> .soc is OK, too, but I tend to get into the 'misc' threads a lot.
> Basically it is a time killer.

I will look in on RBM to hijack various topics over to ARBR which is where I
am located 100% of the time. I do this because ARBR is such a small group
that we need some outside input. The kind of topics I steal and post my
comments to are mostly always off-topic which can be entertaining for anyone
to read no matter what groups you are normally on.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
"JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!

> Ed,
>
> Look in a mirror. You are the fool who thinks ARBR is his to do with
> as he pleases and you have taken over and dominated this newsgroup.
> Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that what the All-Time High Poster
> to ARBR thread was about. What a hypocrite.
>
> So how was your vacation when I was on vacation? I'm back at least for
> the time being.

Every day of my life is a vacation since I passed the age of 30 some 40
years ago and stopped being a slave to work and a job. However, I do not
recommend this course for most folks. Only very superior types like myself
are capable of it. The rest of you, if you tried it, would drive yourselves
crazy for want of something to do.

I grow old . I grow old .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

T.S.Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota



> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> "Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> > Kevin O'Neill wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Hi Jim,
>> >> >Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom
>> >> >S,
>> >> >with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on
>> >> >arbr.
>> >> >Ed
>> >> >challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to
>> >> >be
>> >> >a
>> >> >nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
>> >> >Al K
>> >>
>> >> Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
>> >> high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.
>> >
>> > Some people would rather complain and post revisionist history about
>> > past events.
>> >
>> > The Google archives will reveal that political arguments occurred on
>> > alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent before I posted my first message.
>>
>> Mr. Sherman, who knows more about ARBR than any other person extant, is
>> quite correct of course. There have not been any prolonged political
>> discussions on ARBR for quite some time now and I hope it stays that way.
>> But I am always at the ready to take on any liberal fool who thinks ARBR
>> is
>> his to do with as he pleases. We NEVER want to return to the days when
>> liberals were given free reign on this newsgroup.
>>
>> Both Mr. Sherman and I were and are primarily responders. It is a good
>> thing
>> we are or we would take over and dominate this newsgroup. But we only try
>> to
>> keep ARBR intelligent and do not allow fools to take it over, like they
>> have
>> so many other newsgroups.
 
Edward Dolan wrote:
> "Bill Baka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> [...]
>> I use Mozilla Thunderbird, both in Windows (2000 right now), and with
>> Linux. It has a basic spell checker but some of the Internet things like
>> ROTFL catch it up, as do any technical words. Sometimes when I am groggy
>> and can't sleep I may make a grammar error that it won't catch, like
>> their, there, they're. I could drop out and use Word or Open Office but I
>> really don't take posting on here as a literary masterpiece kind of thing.
>> There are only about a half dozen nit-pickers and one nasty jerk, whom I
>> need not name, and it isn't Dolan. This is just verbal sparring with the
>> fingers, in between working and riding/running, whatever.
>
> I will only take someone to task for spelling and grammatical errors if and
> when his level of assholeness exceeds all bounds. Jim McNamara does not yet
> fall into that category, but he is getting close on occasion.

Good point, don't pick on everybody.
>
>> I am only on RBM but somebody keeps making these darn cross posts.
>> Recumbents look interesting, but I do too much off road to consider one.
>> .soc is OK, too, but I tend to get into the 'misc' threads a lot.
>> Basically it is a time killer.
>
> I will look in on RBM to hijack various topics over to ARBR which is where I
> am located 100% of the time. I do this because ARBR is such a small group
> that we need some outside input. The kind of topics I steal and post my
> comments to are mostly always off-topic which can be entertaining for anyone
> to read no matter what groups you are normally on.

So you are rendering a 'service'? Some of these threads go so way off
topic it is impossible to keep up when only reading part time. Sometimes
I don't know who is insulting who or whom.
Bill Baka
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
>
 
"Bill Baka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> I will look in on RBM to hijack various topics over to ARBR which is
>> where I am located 100% of the time. I do this because ARBR is such a
>> small group that we need some outside input. The kind of topics I steal
>> and post my comments to are mostly always off-topic which can be
>> entertaining for anyone to read no matter what groups you are normally
>> on.
>
> So you are rendering a 'service'? Some of these threads go so way off
> topic it is impossible to keep up when only reading part time. Sometimes I
> don't know who is insulting who or whom.

It is extremely important that we keep our sense of humor when on these
newsgroups. I will admit when I first came to Usenet I had a wrong
impression of it. I thought it was for serious discussions of serious
issues. I could not have been more wrong. Usenet is all about who can be the
biggest clown. It is a huge mistake to take any of this at all seriously.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
"K_S_ONeill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman wrote:
>> Kevin O'Neill wrote:
>> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:27 -0400, "Al K" <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >Hi Jim,
>> > >Ed D clearly has contributed to diverting arbr from cycling. But Tom
>> > >S,
>> > >with his political views expressed on arbr, initiated politics on
>> > >arbr. Ed
>> > >challenged Tom's political views, and arbr got diverted. This used to
>> > >be a
>> > >nice recumbent cycling news group, not a political vent.
>> > >Al K
>> >
>> > Have any of you heard of killfiles, for god's sake? You've got a few
>> > high volume knuckleheads, killfile 'em and get on with life. Sheesh.
>
> For the record, that second sentence was intended to be an if-then, not
> a statement of fact. I don't know the group well enough to say anyone
> is or is not a troll. I guess. I dunno, this Dolan chap does seem to
> be much more noise than signal. Onwards;

Ed Dolan, more noise than signal? You have got that exactly backwards. Once
you get on my wave length, you will quickly realize that you are in the
realm of the gods and have left this mundane earth far behind you.

>> Some people would rather complain and post revisionist history about
>> past events.
>
> Oh sure, arguing, changing history, all that is good fun. The first
> few messages I read seemed to be in a dispairing tone, and made me
> wonder if perhaps a liberal application of kf might raise the happiness
> level.

The tone you detect is what I have freely given to this newsgroup, otherwise
known as ARBR. I do not even charge for my civilizing services, such is the
largess of my spirit.

>> The Google archives will reveal that political arguments occurred on
>> alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent before I posted my first message.
>
> My point was more that if anyone, me, you, whomever, is galling anyone,
> him, her, whoever, so much that they feel the need to have long threads
> about how much me or you or whomever are bugging him or her or whoever,
> him or her or whoever might be better served by killfiling me or you or
> whomever than endlessly arguing, since that's not called "feeding the
> troll" for nothing. If you see what I mean.

Nay, it is far, far better to feed the troll so everyone can be amused and
not fall into despair. I once knew a guy who fell into despair and he went
down to his dirt floor cellar and hung himself from a rafter. Minnesota and
Wisconsin are notorious for these type of suicides in the dead of winter.
Only the nation of Finland is worse in this regard.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
 
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:15:54 GMT, Bill Baka <[email protected]> wrote:


>So you are rendering a 'service'? Some of these threads go so way off
>topic it is impossible to keep up when only reading part time. Sometimes
>I don't know who is insulting who or whom.
>Bill Baka

Well, if someone is replying to one Billy Baka, the odds are about 10
to 1 that it will be perceived as an insult.
 
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