Air New Zealand and Air Qantas ground Handlers at Brisbane Air Port. Did they Still my luggage?

"Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
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<snip>
>
> Providing Usenet access might seem like a nice idea, and for literally
> one or two people, it's a useful service (now duplicated by Google).
> But for the majority of participants on a web based forum, it provides
> a portal to a world they know nothing about and are ill prepared to
> participate in. Usenet is a very different place than web based forums,
> and many of the people posting to Usenet via web based forums have no
> idea where they are. The latest interloper was a perfect case in point.
> One of his crisicisms of me was that I didn't have a profile on Deep
> Blue, telling me that he had absolutely no idea he was participating in
> a Usenet newsgroup.

To be honest, Alan, I had held the fact that you don't have a profile on
deep blue against you, but I've gotten over that.
Now its just your political beliefs.

<snip>

Dennis

In article <be0ba$42ddb19c$18d64cf6$8002@KNOLOGY.NET>, Icarus\
<nojunkmail@ever.invalid> wrote:

€ "Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
€ news:190720050802477811%agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com ...
€ <snip>
€ >
€ > Providing Usenet access might seem like a nice idea, and for literally
€ > one or two people, it's a useful service (now duplicated by Google).
€ > But for the majority of participants on a web based forum, it provides
€ > a portal to a world they know nothing about and are ill prepared to
€ > participate in. Usenet is a very different place than web based forums,
€ > and many of the people posting to Usenet via web based forums have no
€ > idea where they are. The latest interloper was a perfect case in point.
€ > One of his crisicisms of me was that I didn't have a profile on Deep
€ > Blue, telling me that he had absolutely no idea he was participating in
€ > a Usenet newsgroup.
€
€ To be honest, Alan, I had held the fact that you don't have a profile on
€ deep blue against you, but I've gotten over that.
€ Now its just your political beliefs.
€


I feel blessed

And your luggage.

Froggy

"Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:190720052003473279%agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com ...
> In article <be0ba$42ddb19c$18d64cf6$8002@KNOLOGY.NET>, Icarus\
> <nojunkmail@ever.invalid> wrote:
>
> ? "Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
> ? news:190720050802477811%agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com ...
> ? <snip>
> ? >
> ? > Providing Usenet access might seem like a nice idea, and for literally
> ? > one or two people, it's a useful service (now duplicated by Google).
> ? > But for the majority of participants on a web based forum, it provides
> ? > a portal to a world they know nothing about and are ill prepared to
> ? > participate in. Usenet is a very different place than web based
forums,
> ? > and many of the people posting to Usenet via web based forums have no
> ? > idea where they are. The latest interloper was a perfect case in
point.
> ? > One of his crisicisms of me was that I didn't have a profile on Deep
> ? > Blue, telling me that he had absolutely no idea he was participating
in
> ? > a Usenet newsgroup.
> ?
> ? To be honest, Alan, I had held the fact that you don't have a profile on
> ? deep blue against you, but I've gotten over that.
> ? Now its just your political beliefs.
> ?
>
>
> I feel blessed


Oh yeah, and good luck finding my deeperblue profile.

Dennis

"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
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> > There goes that ugly elitism that so defines you.
> >
> >
> But he IS right in this case.

Partially.

"JOF" <jofrancis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:05:45 -0700, "Scott"
> <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
> >news:t-GdnSGBJvC35kDfRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> >
> >> > There goes that ugly elitism that so defines you.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> But he IS right in this case.
> >
> >Partially.
> >
> The joys of the English language. Two people can agree while one is
> being a pragmatic realist and the other an ugly elitist. Maybe the
> world was better off when spoken communication was grunts and snarls?

No, it wasn't.

Dennis
>
> JF
>
> "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism,
> but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K.Chesterton

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:05:45 -0700, "Scott"
<pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote:

>"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
>news:t-GdnSGBJvC35kDfRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
>
>> > There goes that ugly elitism that so defines you.
>> >
>> >
>> But he IS right in this case.
>
>Partially.
>
The joys of the English language. Two people can agree while one is
being a pragmatic realist and the other an ugly elitist. Maybe the
world was better off when spoken communication was grunts and snarls?

JF

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism,
but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K.Chesterton

JOF wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:05:45 -0700, "Scott"
> <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
>>news:t-GdnSGBJvC35kDfRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
>>
>>
>>>>There goes that ugly elitism that so defines you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>But he IS right in this case.
>>
>>Partially.
>>
>
> The joys of the English language. Two people can agree while one is
> being a pragmatic realist and the other an ugly elitist. Maybe the
> world was better off when spoken communication was grunts and snarls?

Pity that it was only the language that evolved...

--
Michael Wolf

-----

Cthulhu For President.
Why settle for the lesser evil?

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JOF wrote:
>
> The joys of the English language. Two people can agree while one is
> being a pragmatic realist and the other an ugly elitist. Maybe the
> world was better off when spoken communication was grunts and snarls?
>

See there? Rec. scuba at the cutting edge of advanced devolution. We are
perfecting the almost lost art of grunt-n-snarl communication. Makes ya
proud, don't it?

gc

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:04:07 -0400, George Cathcart <gcathcar@umd.edu>
wrote:

>JOF wrote:
>>
>> The joys of the English language. Two people can agree while one is
>> being a pragmatic realist and the other an ugly elitist. Maybe the
>> world was better off when spoken communication was grunts and snarls?
>>
>
>See there? Rec. scuba at the cutting edge of advanced devolution. We are
>perfecting the almost lost art of grunt-n-snarl communication. Makes ya
>proud, don't it?
>
>gc

Can you really say "advanced devolution". I think it's disallowed
under the Law of Malapropisms or something.

Aside from that, should I be worried then that I can understand all of
what's being said here? 8)

JF

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism,
but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K.Chesterton