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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: fdisk
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 12:32:34 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie) wrote:
: [ Oh dear, I feel a thread coming on - I'm gonna bow out after this round,
: I promise, folks! - jkh]
: In article <jmonroyCKwMwp.57J@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
: : In article <jmonroyCKupzM.4sz@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
: : (i.e., my stick is prittier than yours so mine
: : is the prittiest.)
: : Hey, Jesus - buy a spelling checker. Such elementary errors cause you
: : to appear foolish an uneducated (DON'T say it everybody, it would be
: : shooting waterfowl in an enclosed container).
: :
: what make you think I mispelled the words.
: Well, given that we don't use the word "prittier" on planet earth
: (certainly not with that spelling, anyway) perhaps you're simply
: coming from a different frame of reference.
:
Of course we have two different frames of reference,
it's called being different. (I know this is wide open, too.)
;
: : So why did you bring it up?
: :
: My two cents are my two cents.
: No, I meant: What did it have to do with the purported topic at hand?
:
Well, if you would have quoted me again... I probabely (sp?)
could tell you. (watch me get a hundred pieces of mail now).
: : Jesus, what are you talking about? Do you mean to imply by this that
: : one of us should embark on an African safari in search of this
: : mythical tool of yours, or that any failure to do so on our part would
: : imply some degree of ignorance?
: :
: Boy.. you got that exactly correct.
: Boy, you must have a lot of spare time on your hands. Since we don't,
: and you're the one who brought it up, perhaps you could track it down
: instead? Thanks.
:
It's in your incoming... box.
: : I'm especially puzzled by your assertion
: : that ignorance could be some sort of attraction ("if they continue to be
: : ignorant [...] they will also draw a nice following,,,[sic]"). If that's
: : true, then many of us have terrific careers in politics ahead of us.
: :
: Nothing is more stranger than the truth.
: Or to paraphrase Zippy The Pinhead: If you can't say something sensible,
: say something surrealistic. Please renew the perscription - you get very
: strange when you're off your medication.
:
Blue and red are two different colors.
: Seems like I got your feet in also to boot...
: (no pub intended.)
: No "pub" taken! (Jordan grabs his "fairing" and zips off to the pub..)
:
Dammm... one of these days, we're gonna have to fix
this keyboard thing... (why the hell "b" is next
to "n" doesn't flow... then again I think someone
did this on purpose.. (to screw with me)))....
--
Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com
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