Milestone Day for ARBR Approaches

In the headers window of my newsreader this topic appears:

'Milestone Day for Ed Dolan'

It just works out because of the shape of the window layout, but I got
a giggle anyway. After all, he's the only one who cares.

At the red light on the way to work this morning the skateboarders
(skateboarders!) were nervous. They had heard a roumor that the big
announcement upon passing Tom Sherman's record would be Mr. Ed's
retirement, and they would be left with no one to look up to.

We can dream...

Indiana Mike

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In the headers window of my newsreader this topic appears:

'Milestone Day for Ed Dolan'

It just works out because of the shape of the window layout, but I got
a giggle anyway. After all, he's the only one who cares.

In the old days of ARBR there were many who kept track of matters like this
and who cared. Now of course that ARBR has fallen on hard times and is
overrun with newbies, no one cares except for a few of us old timers. If Mr.
Tom Sherman were still here he would care and would be concerned about it.

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At the red light on the way to work this morning the skateboarders
(skateboarders!) were nervous. They had heard a roumor that the big
announcement upon passing Tom Sherman's record would be Mr. Ed's
retirement, and they would be left with no one to look up to.

It is not easy to post more than 5000 messages to a single newsgroup. Anyone
who thinks it is easy should try it sometime.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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In the headers window of my newsreader this topic appears:

'Milestone Day for Ed Dolan'

It just works out because of the shape of the window layout, but I got
a giggle anyway. After all, he's the only one who cares.

At the red light on the way to work this morning the skateboarders
(skateboarders!) were nervous. They had heard a roumor that the big
announcement upon passing Tom Sherman's record would be Mr. Ed's
retirement, and they would be left with no one to look up to.

Do you purposely misspell words just to irritate me? Roumor should be rumor.

I will retire some day from this newsgroup sooner than you think as I am fed
up with all the idiots that infest this group. I need a more intellectual
group that will appreciate me and indeed venerate me as the Great Man that I
am.

I think recumbent cyclists are not intellectual at all. They are almost
infantile when it comes to matters of the mind. The only intellectuals are
the engineering and scientific types - and they are impossibly boring to all
other types. I need to find my own kind where I will be appreciated for my
genius and my all-around Greatness.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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Do you purposely misspell words just to irritate me? Roumor should be rumor.

No, rumor should be rumour. What's the name of the language?

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Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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Peter Grange

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In article <[email hidden]>, Edward Dolan
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"Mike Rice" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Do you purposely misspell words just to irritate me? Roumor should be
rumor.

No, rumor should be rumour. What's the name of the language?

The English spelling of certain words I regard as highly idiosyncratic, even
eccentric. We Americans have taken the language and over time stripped it of
some of it's idiocies. English is a hard enough language for non-English
speaking folks to learn without having to suffer those very peculiar English
spellings which make absolutely no sense.

However, the final argument for American English is that we are now the sole
remaining super power in the world and so of course the way we do things is
going to prevail, whether those in the UK like it or not.

The only folks I know in this country who prefer the English spellings are
highly affected to the point of being bonkers. They like to write theatre
instead of theater.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

Peter,

You would probably do best not to talk to Ed directly. He is not someone
with whom an intelligent conversation can be had. I'm sure that if he
responds to your message it will be something that is utterly ridiculous.

His major life accomplishment appears to be posting more frequently to this
group than anyone else.

He is to be pitied. There is no use in actually taking to him as the only
person that he listens to is himself. At this point he has already started
replying to his own messages. I have compared him to a homeless person. The
homeless frequently talk to themselves as well.

Once you get used to his caustic rants he can be an amusing diversion but he
is basically a pitiable creature.

Jeff

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In article <[email hidden]>, Edward Dolan
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"Mike Rice" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Do you purposely misspell words just to irritate me? Roumor should be
rumor.

No, rumor should be rumour. What's the name of the language?

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Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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Peter Grange

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Peter,

Peter doesn't give a damn about you and/or anything you have to say about
me. He can draw his own conclusions based on what he reads here on ARBR.
Peter is not an idiot top poster like you, so he is already way ahead of
you.

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You would probably do best not to talk to Ed directly. He is not someone
with whom an intelligent conversation can be had. I'm sure that if he
responds to your message it will be something that is utterly ridiculous.

His major life accomplishment appears to be posting more frequently to
this group than anyone else.

Keep those missives coming Grippe. I am getting closer and closer to my goal
thanks to you.

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He is to be pitied. There is no use in actually taking to him as the only
person that he listens to is himself. At this point he has already started
replying to his own messages. I have compared him to a homeless person.
The homeless frequently talk to themselves as well.

Once you get used to his caustic rants he can be an amusing diversion but
he is basically a pitiable creature.

Jeff

Grippe is jealous of me because I am just so much Greater than him. In fact,
he has no Greatness at all. I call him PC Grippe for always being
politically correct on everything under the sun. The jerk probably reads the
NY Times and voted for Kerry!

He has already proven himself to be in favor of excrement and sex since he
likes to reference those two subjects whenever he can. He also favors
abortion which is the taking of innocent human life. He thinks abortion is a
really neat way for the world to get rid of unwanted children. You could
probably talk him into infanticide without too much trouble. It is too bad
his mother didn't abort him as then we would not have to put up with his cry
baby posts.

Grippe is an overweight slob (250 pounds) who until recently wore a beard
down to his enormous belly. Do you really want to be buddy-buddy with a
revolting creature like this?

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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Once you get used to his caustic rants he can be an amusing diversion but he
is basically a pitiable creature.

Jeff

Quasimodo Dolan?

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"Mike Rice" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Do you purposely misspell words just to irritate me? Roumor should be
rumor.

I swear, if you could have heard the skateboarder's (!) voice he
clearly said 'roumer'. I only report the news, I don't write it.

Indiana Mike

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No, rumor should be rumour. What's the name of the language?

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Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

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Peter Grange

The TROLL rants:

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... it looks like we are very shortly going to have a new all
time champion poster[*].

* PLEASE NOTE: Per M-W Online: 'poster' - presumably the adult
equivalent of 'poster child' - means 'one afflicted with a
disease...' or 'having a public image that is identified with
something...', and champion is another word for 'pugnacious
individual'. Hmm-mm...

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The next most prolific posters fall into the 2,5000 [sic]
range, This is pitiful indeed. [sic - for the TROLL's 1837th
comma fault (approximately); but who's counting?]...
I think it is safe to say that Ed Dolan is not likely to be
equaled in the foreseeable future.

I read this thread and had to smile;
The TROLL has pumped out quite a pile.

But like those wheat farms on his plain,
There's way more stems and grass than grain.
On midwest farms at threshing time,
A ton of straw ain't worth a dime.

No one's impressed if some guy talks
About the number of his stalks;
The bottom line is how much wheat
There is that folks might want to eat.

I read this thread and had to laugh -
So little wheat, way too much chaff.

If all that chaff's made into hay,
It's just a single step away

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From being - like this TROLL's vain words -

Huge steaming piles of bovine turds.

More TROLLish posts? No, let's have fewer!
This newsgroup's deep in steer manure.
The heap's immense; the odor's rank,
With most produced by one old crank.

I read this thread and had to howl;
The TROLL's still out there, on the prowl.

But there's a consolation, guys,
The TROLL (who frankly isn't wise)
Quite often STOMPS (as all TROLLs do)
In his own pile of fresh poo-poo.

Poetic justice - so it goes...
As feces squishes past his toes,
The TROLL with reddened face, brown feet,
Has found his place - sweets for the sweet!

Regards (and keep smiling),
Wayne

LoGo USA said:

Regards (and keep smiling),
Wayne

LOL!

Indiana Mike

LoGo USA said:

The TROLL rants:

Quoted message said:

... it looks like we are very shortly going to have a new all
time champion poster[*].

* PLEASE NOTE: Per M-W Online: 'poster' - presumably the adult
equivalent of 'poster child' - means 'one afflicted with a
disease...' or 'having a public image that is identified with
something...', and champion is another word for 'pugnacious
individual'. Hmm-mm...

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The next most prolific posters fall into the 2,5000 [sic]
range, This is pitiful indeed. [sic - for the TROLL's 1837th
comma fault (approximately); but who's counting?]...
I think it is safe to say that Ed Dolan is not likely to be
equaled in the foreseeable future.

I read this thread and had to smile;
The TROLL has pumped out quite a pile.

But like those wheat farms on his plain,
There's way more stems and grass than grain.
On midwest farms at threshing time,
A ton of straw ain't worth a dime.

No one's impressed if some guy talks
About the number of his stalks;
The bottom line is how much wheat
There is that folks might want to eat.

I read this thread and had to laugh -
So little wheat, way too much chaff.

If all that chaff's made into hay,
It's just a single step away

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From being - like this TROLL's vain words -

Huge steaming piles of bovine turds.

More TROLLish posts? No, let's have fewer!
This newsgroup's deep in steer manure.
The heap's immense; the odor's rank,
With most produced by one old crank.

I read this thread and had to howl;
The TROLL's still out there, on the prowl.

But there's a consolation, guys,
The TROLL (who frankly isn't wise)
Quite often STOMPS (as all TROLLs do)
In his own pile of fresh poo-poo.

Poetic justice - so it goes...
As feces squishes past his toes,
The TROLL with reddened face, brown feet,
Has found his place - sweets for the sweet!

Regards (and keep smiling),
Wayne

Your first poetic words in over a month and you lead with a pile of [censored].I'm smiling Wayne because that makes you the poet of [censored] on ARBR.You should really lift yourself out of the gutter and think about the more pleasant things in life.You might find some here who think [censored] and poetry go together,but they are of a like mind to you.

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LoGo USA said:

Regards (and keep smiling),
Wayne

LOL!

Indiana Mike

It is rather unique in this day an age to find someone who can string words
together in verse. In former times there were many who were able to do this.
It is too bad that Wayne can't get his mind out of the [censored]. He is
essentially mired in it. Too bad as he might be worth reading otherwise.
Frankly, this group could use a bit of intellectual elevation, but Wayne
fails us badly with his focus on excrement.

Poets should only write about love and death and other esoteric things.
Everyone knows that. But Wayne is the Poet of [censored]. I guess that is the best
that ARBR can come up with.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

Hey again folks -

Where you see [BLEEP!], please read instead
The S-word that's so often said
By this dull-witted, foul-mouthed TROLL
(As he pursues another goal?)

When ARBR's TROLL slips off to sleep
He dreams of docile networked sheep...
The old TROLL thinks he owns this group.
When someone's jumping through his hoop,
He seems to think he's scored a point,
But boy, his nose gets out of joint
When he's outwitted or ignored.
Still, just one time, as he implored:

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Poets should only write about love and death and
other esoteric things... you will have to get off the
subject of [BLEEP!] and onto proper poetic subjects.

I took the two-faced TROLL's advice -
No hint of [BLEEP!]; I played real nice.
The rhymes in my last message, team,
Unlike the TROLL's most favored theme,
Waxed esoteric - love and death.
I might as well as saved my breath.

Outclassed by what I really wrote,
The TROLL kept bleating, and I quote
[With fine, fair edits]: "... [BLEEP!], [BLEEP!], [BLEEP!]."
TROLLs' minds are neither broad nor deep,
And only have a single track
With rusty rails, both out of whack.

I think it's time the TROLL confessed
That if he took an inkblot test,
Each time the doc would put one down,
The TROLL would swear the stain was brown,
Then argue till his voice was hoarse,
"It's shaped like piles of [BLEEP!], of course!"

I've counted S-words on this thread,
Both standalone and paired with head.
For me the total's zero, zip!
[Well, twice I quote the TROLL's fat lip.]
There's two by 'nget' (the TROLL's sole fan?)
But who's the leader? Who's 'Da Man'?

With THIRTY-TWO, and counting, troup,
The all-time [BLEEP!]-head on this group,
The Number One of Number Two,
Is ARBR's TROLL! [All cheer:] Pee-ee-ee-YEWW-WW!!!

Regards,
Wayne

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Hey again folks -

Where you see [BLEEP!], please read instead
The S-word that's so often said
By this dull-witted, foul-mouthed TROLL
(As he pursues another goal?)

When ARBR's TROLL slips off to sleep
He dreams of docile networked sheep...
The old TROLL thinks he owns this group.
When someone's jumping through his hoop,
He seems to think he's scored a point,
But boy, his nose gets out of joint
When he's outwitted or ignored.
Still, just one time, as he implored:

Quoted message said:

Poets should only write about love and death and
other esoteric things... you will have to get off the
subject of [BLEEP!] and onto proper poetic subjects.

I took the two-faced TROLL's advice -
No hint of [BLEEP!]; I played real nice.
The rhymes in my last message, team,
Unlike the TROLL's most favored theme,
Waxed esoteric - love and death.
I might as well as saved my breath.

You have to stay ENTIRELY off the subject of excrement. If I detect even one
reference to it, then I will make that my only response. I have now imposed
on you a stricture, which ought to make you a better poet. The great artists
of the past did their best work when operating under strictures on one kind
or another.

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Outclassed by what I really wrote,
The TROLL kept bleating, and I quote
[With fine, fair edits]: "... [BLEEP!], [BLEEP!], [BLEEP!]."
TROLLs' minds are neither broad nor deep,
And only have a single track
With rusty rails, both out of whack.

I think it's time the TROLL confessed
That if he took an inkblot test,
Each time the doc would put one down,
The TROLL would swear the stain was brown,
Then argue till his voice was hoarse,
"It's shaped like piles of [BLEEP!], of course!"

You have to stay ENTIRELY off the subject of excrement. If I detect even one
reference to it, then I will make that my only response. I have now imposed
on you a stricture, which ought to make you a better poet. The great artists
of the past did their best work when operating under strictures on one kind
or another.

Quoted message said:

I've counted S-words on this thread,
Both standalone and paired with head.
For me the total's zero, zip!
[Well, twice I quote the TROLL's fat lip.]
There's two by 'nget' (the TROLL's sole fan?)
But who's the leader? Who's 'Da Man'?

With THIRTY-TWO, and counting, troup,
The all-time [BLEEP!]-head on this group,
The Number One of Number Two,
Is ARBR's TROLL! [All cheer:] Pee-ee-ee-YEWW-WW!!!

You have to stay ENTIRELY off the subject of excrement. If I detect even one
reference to it, then I will make that my only response. I have now imposed
on you a stricture, which ought to make you a better poet. The great artists
of the past did their best work when operating under strictures on one kind
or another.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

In article <[email hidden]>, Edward Dolan

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"LoGo USA" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hey again folks -

Where you see [BLEEP!], please read instead
The S-word that's so often said
By this dull-witted, foul-mouthed TROLL
(As he pursues another goal?)

When ARBR's TROLL slips off to sleep
He dreams of docile networked sheep...
The old TROLL thinks he owns this group.
When someone's jumping through his hoop,
He seems to think he's scored a point,
But boy, his nose gets out of joint
When he's outwitted or ignored.
Still, just one time, as he implored:

Quoted message said:

Poets should only write about love and death and
other esoteric things... you will have to get off the
subject of [BLEEP!] and onto proper poetic subjects.

I took the two-faced TROLL's advice -
No hint of [BLEEP!]; I played real nice.
The rhymes in my last message, team,
Unlike the TROLL's most favored theme,
Waxed esoteric - love and death.
I might as well as saved my breath.

You have to stay ENTIRELY off the subject of excrement. If I detect even one
reference to it, then I will make that my only response. I have now imposed
on you a stricture, which ought to make you a better poet. The great artists
of the past did their best work when operating under strictures on one kind
or another.

Quoted message said:

Outclassed by what I really wrote,
The TROLL kept bleating, and I quote
[With fine, fair edits]: "... [BLEEP!], [BLEEP!], [BLEEP!]."
TROLLs' minds are neither broad nor deep,
And only have a single track
With rusty rails, both out of whack.

I think it's time the TROLL confessed
That if he took an inkblot test,
Each time the doc would put one down,
The TROLL would swear the stain was brown,
Then argue till his voice was hoarse,
"It's shaped like piles of [BLEEP!], of course!"

You have to stay ENTIRELY off the subject of excrement. If I detect even one
reference to it, then I will make that my only response. I have now imposed
on you a stricture, which ought to make you a better poet. The great artists
of the past did their best work when operating under strictures on one kind
or another.

Quoted message said:

I've counted S-words on this thread,
Both standalone and paired with head.
For me the total's zero, zip!
[Well, twice I quote the TROLL's fat lip.]
There's two by 'nget' (the TROLL's sole fan?)
But who's the leader? Who's 'Da Man'?

With THIRTY-TWO, and counting, troup,
The all-time [BLEEP!]-head on this group,
The Number One of Number Two,
Is ARBR's TROLL! [All cheer:] Pee-ee-ee-YEWW-WW!!!

You have to stay ENTIRELY off the subject of excrement. If I detect even one
reference to it, then I will make that my only response. I have now imposed
on you a stricture, which ought to make you a better poet. The great artists
of the past did their best work when operating under strictures on one kind
or another.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

Ed you could have brokent this post up into 3 posts. That way you
would be closer to attaining your goal and we can all break out the
party cigarettes.

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Ed you could have brokent this post up into 3 posts. That way you
would be closer to attaining your goal and we can all break out the
party cigarettes.

Wayne LoGo, the Poet of ARBR, knows exactly what I am doing and what he has
to do to prevent it. I do not cut intellectuals the slack that I cut to
non-intellectuals. I expect more of them and I know how to get it out of
them too.

My goal will arrive in the goodness of time and I am in no hurry to reach
the glorious event. I will make known my apotheosis to one and all if and
when it happens.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota

Hey guys -

The TROLL still doesn't get the picture.

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[I've] now imposed on you a stricture...

[It's hard to quote the TROLL in meter;
He's such a raucous quacking bleater.]

Another word from ancient annals!
If 'strangely narrowed body channels'
Is what the TROLL intends imposing,
Then folks, I'll pass. Oh, he needs hosing,
But might enjoy such wild diversions.
Sure, he insists that vile perversions
Have no appeal, and casts aspersions
On folks he claims make those incursions,
But he's admitted he's a liar.
And who can know how hot the fire
Of HELL might burn in his libido
To violate his saintly credo?

But even if he meant 'restriction',
That's merely self-deluding fiction.
I'm not within his jurisdiction,
And what could be a worse infliction
Than we've already been enduring?
I find it strangely reassuring
To think the TROLL might stop replying.
Please, please don't fret; I won't be crying.

But wait! I guess to minimize
The length and breadth of TROLL replies,
And spare the group's minds, souls and eyes

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From typos, thinkos and more lies:

I need to mention poo-poo, guys.

Regards (without restrictions),
Wayne

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Hey guys -

The TROLL still doesn't get the picture.

Quoted message said:

[I've] now imposed on you a stricture...

[It's hard to quote the TROLL in meter;
He's such a raucous quacking bleater.]

Another word from ancient annals!
If 'strangely narrowed body channels'
Is what the TROLL intends imposing,
Then folks, I'll pass. Oh, he needs hosing,
But might enjoy such wild diversions.
Sure, he insists that vile perversions
Have no appeal, and casts aspersions
On folks he claims make those incursions,
But he's admitted he's a liar.
And who can know how hot the fire
Of HELL might burn in his libido
To violate his saintly credo?

Liberals like to throw words around like liar when they have run out of
rational argument. Here's one I remember from my childhood: Liar, liar,
pants on fire! It has the same effect now as it did then - childish and
absurd.

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But even if he meant 'restriction',
That's merely self-deluding fiction.
I'm not within his jurisdiction,
And what could be a worse infliction
Than we've already been enduring?
I find it strangely reassuring
To think the TROLL might stop replying.
Please, please don't fret; I won't be crying.

I meant strictures. If I had meant restriction, then that is what I would
have written.

Quoted message said:

But wait! I guess to minimize
The length and breadth of TROLL replies,
And spare the group's minds, souls and eyes

Quoted message said:

From typos, thinkos and more lies:

I need to mention poo-poo, guys.

Borderline, but I will let it pass.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota