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From: "matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] scripting sam
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:53:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005201c06cc6$3fcd08a0$0301a8c0@freeze> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <028401c06c93$164b4d80$8692fea9@coma>

oh dear

if you can't say something to attack the argument attack the grammar

works on usenet

> > God, you really love it don't you? Sure, let's spam the list
> > so they can all see what a foolish little man you are.
>
> spam?  that's unsolicited mail to (usually) market something.
>
> i'm not sure that 'foolish' is the adjective.  rob said it
> best, i think, as 'doing a boyd'.
>
> à la sed...  use english; gratuitous use of french is
> pretentious.  at least get the accents right.
>
> politeness?  read the 1st ammendment.




  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-23  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200012222249.XAA04024@unix12.planete.net>
2000-12-23  3:46 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-23  9:53   ` matt [this message]
2000-12-23 11:26     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-23 11:54       ` matt
2000-12-24  1:18         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-03  0:34 Russ Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-23 19:34 anothy
2001-01-02 17:35 ` cLIeNUX user
2000-12-23  1:13 forsyth
     [not found] <200012222214.XAA00448@unix12.planete.net>
2000-12-22 22:34 ` kilgore
2000-12-22 22:48 ` James A. Robinson
2000-12-22 14:21 rob pike
2001-01-02 17:24 ` cLIeNUX user
     [not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2000-12-22  6:37 ` Russ Cox
2000-12-23  2:51   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-12-22  6:33 anothy
2000-12-22 14:14 ` Mark C. Otto
2000-12-22 22:07 ` Boyd Roberts

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