The Harrow egger

On Fri, 21 May 2004 17:13:03 +0100, "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]>

wrote in message : said:

Once, when I lived up that way, a passing pikey thought it would be amusing
to heave a half-brick at a passing cyclist, viz. me. Fortunately he missed,
but it's nice to know that the traditions are being passed on to the next
generation.

It happened to me in genteel Snorbens. Admittedly I knew the pikey in
question, and it was mainly motivated by my going to the "wrong"
school. The icing on the cake was when his parent brought him round
afterwards to demand an apology because I had made a Rude Retort. I
told my dad what had actually happened and he did his very best
impression of a well-built 6'2" plus bloke with half a lifetime's
experience of controlling classes of unruly teenagers (which was, I
have to say, both Very Convincing[1] and somewhat frightening).
Exeunt pikey stage left, defeated.

[1] On account of him being - oh, I can see you've beaten me to it.

Guy
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Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment about?

I'd virus scan your PC if that wasn't intended :-)

In news:[email hidden],
Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment about?

I'd virus scan your PC if that wasn't intended :-)

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX execute permissions,
despite being intended only to show on Outlook Express.

A

Simon Brooke said:

This is obviously fertile ground for punsters. How many more will they
crack?

I think I'll have to give you lot the bird.

You can't lay around here!

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment about?

It's a bug in your so-called newsreader, of course. There was no attachment
and your newsreader is telling stupid lies. That bug, exploited the other
way round, helps to let the viruses in.

Quoted message said:

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX execute permissions,

Now that is even more bizarre. WTF do you suppose you're talking about?

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in message <[email hidden]>, Ambrose Nankivell

(') said:

In news:[email hidden],
Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment about?

I'd virus scan your PC if that wasn't intended :-)

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX execute
permissions

Revelation 13:18

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;; that he makes and we should just support that'
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Nick Kew said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Nathaniel Porter <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

Err, what's the "This is not a virus.vbs" attachment about?

It's a bug in your so-called newsreader, of course. There was no attachment
and your newsreader is telling stupid lies. That bug, exploited the other
way round, helps to let the viruses in.

Quoted message said:

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX execute permissions,

Now that is even more bizarre. WTF do you suppose you're talking about?

| begin 666 this_is_not_a_virus.vbs
| There is no virus attached to this post.
| end

FWIW, Gnus also displays it as an "attachment". Are you sure you're
thinking of the right thing?

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Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/
Ignorance is strength

In news:[email hidden],
Nick Kew <[email hidden]> typed:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

It's intended. For some reason, he's set it with POSIX execute
permissions,

Now that is even more bizarre. WTF do you suppose you're talking
about?

My bad, completely sorry. I assumed that in the "begin 666
this_is_not_a_virus" the 666 was to look like chmod permissions, but of
course that's globally writeable and not executable, anyway.

Of course I know it's not going to have any effect on a POSIX system. That's
why it struck me as amusing, but I guess I should have kept it to myself.

A

In article <[email hidden]>,

Keith Willoughby said:

FWIW, Gnus also displays it as an "attachment". Are you sure you're
thinking of the right thing?

Hmmm ...

In Gnus's case, one could imagine it to be some kind of legacy
support for uuencoding. In M$'s case that's a great deal less
plausible, because uuencoding had been obsolete for the better
part of a decade before M$ ever heard of email.

Even so it's broken.

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Not me guv

Pyromancer said:

Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as
dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers <[email hidden]> breathed:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

That was supposed to be a yolk, yes?

Quoted message said:

She poached it from someone else I think. But as the thread gets longer, I
could be getting a bit scrambled up in my readings.

But which came first, the egg or the chicken who threw it?

And does anyone really give a cluck?

Jeremy