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John Cairns April 5th 05 03:02 AM

Keeping everything in perspective
 
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/

John Cairns



Lady Pilot April 5th 05 03:14 AM


"John Cairns" wrote:
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford


Still can't come up with anything orginal or witty? Thought so...

LP (keep trying...maybe someday)



Flying Tadpole April 5th 05 03:22 AM

Indeed, and in this case, with a flourish of strumpetting.

FT

John Cairns wrote:
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/

John Cairns



Scout April 5th 05 03:25 AM

The face that launched a thousand quips?
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
...
Indeed, and in this case, with a flourish of strumpetting.

FT

John Cairns wrote:
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/

John Cairns




Flying Tadpole April 5th 05 03:35 AM

The face that lunched a thousand drips...

Flying Tadpole

"If I have seen so far, it is because I lopped the heads off the
pygmies impeding my view" (FT2, 1997)

Scout wrote:
The face that launched a thousand quips?
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
...

Indeed, and in this case, with a flourish of strumpetting.

FT

John Cairns wrote:

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/

John Cairns





Scout April 5th 05 03:41 AM

The face that loosed a thousand lips . . .

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
...
The face that lunched a thousand drips...

Flying Tadpole

"If I have seen so far, it is because I lopped the heads off the pygmies
impeding my view" (FT2, 1997)

Scout wrote:
The face that launched a thousand quips?
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
...

Indeed, and in this case, with a flourish of strumpetting.

FT

John Cairns wrote:

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/

John Cairns





Flying Tadpole April 5th 05 04:28 AM

A gaggle of geese,
A murder of crows,
A flocculation of flonkers

Scout wrote:
The face that loosed a thousand lips . . .

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
...

The face that lunched a thousand drips...

Flying Tadpole

"If I have seen so far, it is because I lopped the heads off the pygmies
impeding my view" (FT2, 1997)

Scout wrote:

The face that launched a thousand quips?
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
...


Indeed, and in this case, with a flourish of strumpetting.

FT

John Cairns wrote:


Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/

John Cairns




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Flying Tadpole

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Soque (Enjoque) Pupette April 5th 05 06:29 AM

John Cairns wrote:
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford

Culled from:

http://www.plonk.com/


I've celebrated similar sentiments by [mock][1] invading alt.bull****,
giving myself a grand title and running it in my sig.

I use it when I want to deliberately trigger BS detectors far and wide.

,,,
..oo The Grand Poo of
c The Royal Order of
- "It's all bull****." -- me Defecating Buffalo

[1] A self-parody of a newsgroup invasion. Volume was low.
Nobody noticed. Nobody cared. The "invasion" itself was
bull****, and that was the point. Add the obvious
wordplay from the Flinstones for a title ('Emperor' was
being over used at the time) and I come out with a sig that
can scream "This is bull****!" as necessary. [2]

[2] As you can see, I take my bull**** seriously.

--
,,,
..oo
c
- Soque - The Grand Poo of The Royal Order of Defecating Buffalo

Lonny B April 5th 05 01:01 PM

Nice sailing content, LP. Now go back to performing below jobs.

Lonny B
--
"Rock stars! Is there anything they don't know?" Homer Simpson


"Lady Pilot" wrote in message
news:uwm4e.25245$TZ.6743@okepread06...

"John Cairns" wrote:
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene
Spafford


Still can't come up with anything orginal or witty? Thought so...

LP (keep trying...maybe someday)





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