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"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Peter Clinch said:

davek said:

This is part of the reason I don't like irrelevant
sigs -

they just

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generate tangential threads. This is a cycling forum,
not a

programming

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language forum.

Not quite Dave, this is Usenet... ;-)

But still off-topic

Tony ;-)

POT! KETTLE! ANOTHER WORD!

:-)
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Mark South:

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Irony would require Simon not to post dangerous
misinformation about life and death topics.

I wouldn't know about that kind of thing. I just
thought I'd

point out that

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you were responding to half a sig, but perhaps you
knew that

already.

"Half a sig is better than two in the bush." -BF

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You can discuss the quote in my sig if it'll give
you some

relief,

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but you'll have to spot it first :-)

I'm sure I recognize it... but I can't place it. It's
poulet as

in slang for

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police officer rather than chicken, isn't it?

No, it really is a chicken, but it's a roast chicken....

On Fri, 07 May 2004 22:05:04 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]>

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Look, guys, it was a joke. It's only a .sig. And you can't
take one line of it out of context.

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THE CONTEXT: .::;===r==\ / /___||___\____ //==\- ||- |
/__\( MS Windows IS an operating environment.
//____\__||___|_// \|: C++ IS an object oriented
programming language. \__/ ~~~~~~~~~ \__/ Citroen 2cv6 IS a
four door family saloon.

What it's trying to say is that C++ is to a proper OO
language as a tin snail is to a motor car. And I don't
think either of you disagree. But it really isn't meant to
be analysed.

Well, I've awlays read it as having (in a manner of
speaking, but you wouldn't actually want to use it) after
each line. Was that wrong?

Guy
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 May 2004 22:05:04 GMT, Simon Brooke
<[email hidden]> wrote in message <a4dtm1-
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Look, guys, it was a joke. It's only a .sig. And you
can't take one line of it out of context.

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THE CONTEXT: .::;===r==\ / /___||___\____ //==\- ||- |
/__\( MS Windows IS an operating environment.
//____\__||___|_// \|: C++ IS an object oriented
programming language. \__/ ~~~~~~~~~ \__/ Citroen 2cv6 IS
a four door family saloon.

What it's trying to say is that C++ is to a proper OO
language as a tin snail is to a motor car. And I don't
think either of you disagree. But it really isn't meant
to be analysed.

Well, I've awlays read it as having (in a manner of
speaking, but you wouldn't actually want to use it) after
each line. Was that wrong?

Not wrong. Sigs are fair game, _especially_ in URC.
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Just zis Guy, you know? [email hidden] opined
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Well, I've awlays read it as having (in a manner of
speaking, but you wouldn't actually want to use it) after
each line. Was that wrong?

As having what?

Jon

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

On Fri, 07 May 2004 22:05:04 GMT, Simon Brooke
<[email hidden]> wrote in message <a4dtm1-
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Look, guys, it was a joke. It's only a .sig. And you can't
take one line of it out of context.

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THE CONTEXT: .::;===r==\ / /___||___\____ //==\- ||- |
/__\( MS Windows IS an operating environment.
//____\__||___|_// \|: C++ IS an object oriented
programming language. \__/ ~~~~~~~~~ \__/ Citroen 2cv6 IS
a four door family saloon.

What it's trying to say is that C++ is to a proper OO
language as a tin snail is to a motor car. And I don't
think either of you disagree. But it really isn't meant to
be analysed.

Well, I've awlays read it as having (in a manner of
speaking, but you wouldn't actually want to use it) after
each line. Was that wrong?

Indeed, naturally and of course. Mind you, I still like tin
snails, but it has to be recognised that when considered in
relation to virtually any other four door family saloon,
they are lacking, uhmmm, one or two features.

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Mark South said:

POT! KETTLE! ANOTHER WORD!

Hi Mark

This reminds me of when someone used the word niggardly in a
NG - rec.kites possibly. The discussion became OT extremely
quickly. USAians were involved, AFAIR.

James

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Mark South said:

POT! KETTLE! ANOTHER WORD!

You know, I had to look back through the thread to remember
what this was about
:-)

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Hi Mark

Hey James, how's things?

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This reminds me of when someone used the word niggardly in
a NG - rec.kites possibly. The discussion became OT
extremely quickly.

So who got called a niggard?

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USAians were involved, AFAIR.

Je ne suis pas americain, moi.
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"James Hodson" <[email hidden]>
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Mark South said:

POT! KETTLE! ANOTHER WORD!

You know, I had to look back through the thread to remember
what this was about
:-)

Hey James, how's things?

Better than so-so, thanks, Mark. You?

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This reminds me of when someone used the word niggardly
in a NG - rec.kites possibly. The discussion became OT
extremely quickly.

So who got called a niggard?

Can't recall & it wasn't really relevant. Those first four
letters "nigg" set off the explosives.

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USAians were involved, AFAIR.

Je ne suis pas americain, moi.

Quebecois (sp?) :-)

IIRC more correctly, the r.k NG stuff happened soon after
9/11 so I guess USAian tempers could excused for being a
little short. Again IIRC, I do think I mentioned this off-
topic thing here in u.r.c previously, but I'm reasonably
sure I first heard it elsewhere.

James

James:

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Can't recall & it wasn't really relevant. Those first four letters "nigg" set off the explosives.

Good grief. I hope you pointed them in the direction of a good dictionary.

d.

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Can't recall & it wasn't really relevant. Those first four
letters "nigg" set off the explosives.

Good grief. I hope you pointed them in the direction of a
good dictionary.

Indeed, Davek. A dictionary wot shows English; that's
English like wot you and me speaketh.

Very sensitive, let alone dumb, some people.

Actually, I pointed them towards
<http://dictionary.reference.com/> and/or
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/> and suggested they enter
the word "niggardly".

It didn't do much good, AFAIR & FWIW. The so called damage
had already been done. Some suggested the damage had been
done a few hundred years ago. My suggestion of entering
Wilberforce & slave into Google didn't really help much.

James

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Very sensitive, let alone dumb, some people.

I guess it must have niggled them.

Tony

Michael MacClancy said:

I bet you also identified a few [censored] in their armour and
called a spade a spade.

Dangerous talk. ;-)

"Don't even go there," I thought to myself. "But why not?" I
thought a moment later.

To be honest, Michael, I wasn't peed off but I did feel
angry. Why on Earth should a fool tell me what I can and
cannot say - let alone think? My thoughs were along the
lines of D'oh!

James

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On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:14:20 +0200, "Mark South"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

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Hey James, how's things?

Better than so-so, thanks, Mark. You?

Pretty good, I'm injury-free this season barring a twist in
the ankle[1] that only bothers me when I'm running.

Now if I could make more time to cycle I'd be even happier.

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This reminds me of when someone used the word niggardly
in a NG - rec.kites possibly. The discussion became OT
extremely quickly.

So who got called a niggard?

Can't recall & it wasn't really relevant. Those first four
letters "nigg" set off the explosives.

Not understanding words is a real problem for some people.
About 260 million people.

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USAians were involved, AFAIR.

Je ne suis pas americain, moi.

Quebecois (sp?) :-)

I can claim so many nationalities it makes my head spin, but
I'm not from any part of Canuckistan!

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IIRC more correctly, the r.k NG stuff happened soon after
9/11 so I guess USAian tempers could excused for being a
little short. Again IIRC, I do think I mentioned this off-
topic thing here in u.r.c previously, but I'm reasonably
sure I first heard it elsewhere.

[1] This is Pete Clich's fault for mentioning (in
uk.rec.walking) how hard it is to get rid of even minor
ankle injuries. Curse you Pete!
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Very sensitive, let alone dumb, some people.

Actually, I pointed them towards
<http://dictionary.reference.com/> and/or
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/> and suggested they
enter the word "niggardly".

Should have told them to chill out. Maybe relax by watching
an old film. "The Dambusters" for example. :-)

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Dave Kahn said:

Should have told them to chill out. Maybe relax by
watching an old film. "The Dambusters" for example. :-)

That remark will dog you in years to come.

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