Pete Biggs wrote:
> Tom Sherman wrote:
> > Pete Biggs wrote:
> >
> >> David Damerell wrote.... nothing that I can read.
> >>
> >> Something funny has happened to your message. Would you repost
> >> please.
> >
> > Pete,
> >
> > I expect you are using Micro$oft Outlook.
>
> OE.
>
> > David Damerell formats his
> > posts in a manner that trips up Outlook.
>
> Deliberately?
>
> I've been able to read David's messages up until yesterday. Did he
write
> anything interesting? ;-)
>
> ~PB
Dear Pete,
Well, it appears from the late Mr. Damerell's post that he was kind to
his mother . . .
[Someone has defaced the funeral eulogy chapter in my copy of "Roughing
It"]
"Says he, 'No Outlook users need apply!' And they didn't. He was the
bulliest man in rec.bicycles.tech, pard! He could lie faster, top-post
higher, pedal harder, and hold more tangle-foot whisky without spilling
it than any man in seventeen newsgroups. Put that in, pard--it'll
please the boys more than anything you could say. And you can say,
pard, that he never shook his mother."
"Never shook his mother?"
"That's it--any of the boys will tell you so."
"Well, but why should he shake her?"
"That's what I say--but some people does."
"Not people of any repute?"
"Well, some that averages pretty so-so."
"In my opinion the man that would offer personal violence to his own
mother, ought to--"
"Cheese it, pard; you've shifted your chain clean outside the granny.
What I was a drivin' at was that he never throwed off on his
mother--don't you see? No indeedy. He give her a bike to ride, and a
rain cape, and plenty of chain oil; and he looked after her and took
care of her all the time; and when she had a derailleur problem I'm
d---d if he didn't sit up nights and install an internal hub gear
system for her himself!"
(There are ugly rumors that Mrs. Damerell never heard from her son
again after she embraced Microsoft Outlook, but clearly Mark Twain did
not believe them.)
Anyone curious about the precise degree of pettiness achieved in these
parts can pursue the matter here in the older and easier to read UK
version of Google Groups:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?h...t3kg0t35gt72l1fp026o2dgptl6k%404ax.com&rnum=2
or
http://tinyurl.com/5kmw6
Carl Fogel