Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy O/T
political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read), which
leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have anything to do
with woodworking.
Bravo...
(And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T posts, but
that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
--
"Our beer goes through thousands of quality Czechs every day."
(From a Shiner Bock billboard I saw in Austin some years ago)
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:52:38 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:59:39 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Keith Nuttle wrote:
>>>> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>>>> HeyBub wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do
>>>>>> more than one thing at a time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>>>>
>>>>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts?
>>>>> Hell - I'm always thinking about them...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
>>>> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
>>>> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
>>>> dies, what is the purpose of it?
>>>
>>> I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it
>>> sure ain't a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
>>
>> But as long as they're holding it, I'll go along.
>
>Ok - I surrender! On the next Awareness Week, I will step up my awareness.
>Just to do the right thing, of course...
I'll do everything I can to support them.
On Aug 24, 3:39=A0pm, Just Wondering <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/24/2012 8:59 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Keith Nuttle wrote:
> >> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> >>> HeyBub wrote:
>
> >>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more
> >>>> than one thing at a time.
>
> >>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>
> >>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
> >>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts? Hel=
l -
> >>> I'm always thinking about them...
>
> >> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
> >> that happens in the US at least once a year. =A0Since a man starts
> >> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week =A0and continues until he
> >> dies, what is the purpose of it?
> > I hear ya, brother! =A0Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it sure=
ain't
> > a guy thing! =A0We don't need no awareness week!
>
> "Both genders stare equally hard at women=92s body parts: study"http://ne=
ws.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/both-genders-stare-women-breasts...
How about staring at the 2012 Republican National Convention being
held in Tampa, Fla. during Hurricane season?
Having a Republican National Convention is a flagrant waste of money,
but to host in in Florida during Hurricane season is the ultimate in
stupidity.
"HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote:
.
>
> Third, a prayer vigil was held to re-track Hurricane Isaac. God heard the
> prayers of the righteous and called a rinse-cycle for New Orleans.
ROTFLMAO
--
www.ewoodshop.com
Swingman wrote:
> "HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>>
>> Third, a prayer vigil was held to re-track Hurricane Isaac. God
>> heard the prayers of the righteous and called a rinse-cycle for New
>> Orleans.
>
> ROTFLMAO
And the current mayor of New Orleans, in his best Ray Nagin impersonation,
is not encouraging the residents of New Orleans to get out of the rain. That
is, "shelter in place," no evacuation.
I don't know whether the SuperDome is again designated as "shelter of last
resort."
Couple of days and we'll see what happens.
> And the current mayor of New Orleans, in his best Ray Nagin impersonation,
> is not encouraging the residents of New Orleans to get out of the rain. That
> is, "shelter in place," no evacuation.
>
> I don't know whether the SuperDome is again designated as "shelter of last
> resort."
The mayor was on NBC last night(8/28/12) and stated that there were
NO shelters in the city of New Orleans.
On 8/28/2012 8:44 AM, Swingman wrote:
> "HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>>
>> Third, a prayer vigil was held to re-track Hurricane Isaac. God heard the
>> prayers of the righteous and called a rinse-cycle for New Orleans.
>
> ROTFLMAO
>
>
And on the same day seven years later lets hope that itch will no longer
trouble us. ;~)
HeyBub wrote:
> Mike Marlow wrote:
>>>
>>> Right. Petite women (my favorite) can be pretty stacked at 34B.
>>> Besides, Confucius say "More than mouthful wasted."
>>> I can't stand 46PP breasts, myself.
>>
>> Too much is... almost vulgar. Give me 34B any day!
>
> Pervert.
Shhhhhhhhhh...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
And if you reach out and show a pretty lady you are aware of her
breasts, you can get in to lots of trouble! 8>)
<snip>
>
> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week" that
> happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts thinking
> about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he dies, what is
> the purpose of it?
Keith Nuttle wrote:
> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>> HeyBub wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more
>>> than one thing at a time.
>>>
>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>>
>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>
>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts? Hell -
>> I'm always thinking about them...
>>
>
>
> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
> dies, what is the purpose of it?
I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it sure ain't
a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
Steve Turner wrote:
> Hey, I've got nothing to hide! I figure this venue is probably a
> better place for discussing assholes than any of the other forums
> where the young and impressionable types hang out. :-) I was also
> kinda curious if anybody else here had ever been through the same
> pain and torture... With all the seasoned veterans we have in here
> surely I'm not the only one? It has to be a more interesting topic
> than the same old re-hashed political discussions we're wading
> through right now. :-)
Nope (thankfully...). But - I did think that they had evolved this process
to something far less painful and far less long-lived. I thought laser
technologies had made this kind of thing almost a walk in the park. I guess
not...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:43:24 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>
><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>>>>> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
>>>>>> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
>>>>>> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bravo...
>>>
>>>It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it for 15
>>>years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>>
>> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>>
>
>No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
Someone must be forcing you to stay where you obviously don't want to be.
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:58:35 -0400, "J. Clarke"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>
>> Just be happy that it happened in the US in the 21st century. One of
>> the major reasons that the Russians didn't get to the Moon was that
>> Sergie Korolev, their equivalent of von Braun, did not survive
>> hemorrhoid surgery and died before the rocket was ready.
>>
>
> Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
> fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
Easy! Just wait until the Democratic girl with the right of center fiscal
beliefs, wearing the Festool green shirt - revealing her 34B's, who is there
to drown her sorrows over being unemployed for the past year, and her
disappointment in Obama's promises with no hope in Romney, finally gets
plowed enough to say "Geezus - I just had hemorroid surgery and my freakin'
ass is killing me!". Then you follow with the classic line... "Speaking of
hemorroid surgery"... <insert approprite lead in to Sergie's story.
Geeze - gotta tell some of you guys every damned thing!
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
CW wrote:
> "HeyBub" wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> CW wrote:
>>
>> Right. Petite women (my favorite)
>> ==============================================================================
>> Same here. I went to high school in Japan. Talk about a kid in a
>> candy store.
>
> I saw a gal at Walmart. She must have been all of 4'10".
>
> She was wearing a T-shirt with the legend "I'm not short, I'm 'fun'
> sized."
> ===============================================================================
>
> I showed that one to my wife. She thought that was pretty good. She
> is 4' 11".
Get her the shirt.
I like short girls. Makes me feel taller (and less inhibited).
While standing in line at the Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix not long ago, a
VERY short TSA Agentette reached up and tapped me on the shoulder. She
asked: "Excuse me sir, can I get you to do me a big favor?"
I looked down. I slowly shook my head. I said: "I'm sorry, I can't. I'm
married."
(The TSA picked four of us passengers for additional RANDOM screening. They
selected me, a senior white male, they also selected a senior black male, a
young oriental woman, and a young Hispanic chap with a goatee.)
Mike Marlow wrote:
> tom wrote:
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two
>>>>>>> noisy O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which
>>>>>>> I don't read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and
>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>> four of those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bravo...
>>>>
>>>> It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it
>>>> for 15 years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>>>
>>> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>>>
>>
>> No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
>
> Well - usenet's been like this from shortly after the beginning. Us
> dinosaurs like to remember it having been different but if we think
> back - it really wasn't. Ok - maybe the OT volume was less, but the
> issues were the same. It's the nature of people gathering in any
> place (whether that is virtual or physical).
>
> The best advice is that when that starts to bother you, you leave.
> It
> really is kinda foolish to complain about it - it's the natrue of
> people gathering together. So what if only a handful of posts
> interest you? Maybe that just means your interests are better served
> elsewhere. Apparently a significant number of participants here are
> comfortable enough with most of the OT threads, because most of them
> participate in one or another. There's not a regular here who is not
> guilty of participating in OT,. or going off on others. or any of the
> other things that keep usenet from being some sort of a pristine
> environment. It's just life man...
it amazes me at the inability of people to just mark read what they
don't want to read or KF people they don't want to hear.
F**kin nuts
Mike Marlow wrote:
>>
>> Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
>> fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
>
> Easy! Just wait until the Democratic girl with the right of center
> fiscal beliefs, wearing the Festool green shirt - revealing her
> 34B's, who is there to drown her sorrows over being unemployed for
> the past year, and her disappointment in Obama's promises with no
> hope in Romney, finally gets plowed enough to say "Geezus - I just
> had hemorroid surgery and my freakin' ass is killing me!". Then you
> follow with the classic line... "Speaking of hemorroid surgery"...
> <insert approprite lead in to Sergie's story.
> Geeze - gotta tell some of you guys every damned thing!
34B?
Not interested.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:42:04 -0500, Steve Turner
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On 8/23/2012 10:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy O/T
>>> political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read), which
>>> leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have anything to do
>>> with woodworking.
>>
>>> Bravo...
>>>
>>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T posts, but
>>> that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
>>
>> So, tell us about what you're doing.
>
>Not much of anything right now because I'm recovering from hemorrhoid surgery.
> The most painful thing I've ever been through in my life... This is truly
>one of those times that I feel like I can say without any pomposity or
>arrogance that yes, the whole world DOES revolve around my asshole. :-)
Ohh, that does sound like a real PITA! Get well fast and then tell us about
what sorts of sawdust you're making.
On 8/24/2012 6:05 AM, HeyBub wrote:
> Steve Turner wrote:
>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
>> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
>> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>
>> Bravo...
>>
>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T
>> posts, but that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more than
> one thing at a time.
>
> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>
> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>
>
Now, that's an accident waiting to happen.
On 8/24/2012 8:59 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> Keith Nuttle wrote:
>> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>> HeyBub wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more
>>>> than one thing at a time.
>>>>
>>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>>>
>>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts? Hell -
>>> I'm always thinking about them...
>>>
>>
>> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
>> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
>> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
>> dies, what is the purpose of it?
> I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it sure ain't
> a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
>
"Both genders stare equally hard at womens body parts: study"
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/both-genders-stare-women-breasts-equally-study-175809076.html
Steve Turner <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> OK, YOU try being gone from the group for three weeks or so (not by
> choice) and coming back to over 2700 unread posts, then try to find
> the ones that are woodworking related without missing any. I recently
> did that and I spent several hours trawling through threads, trying to
> ignore the ones that were noise while not missing any that were on
> topic. I didn't even get down to 2000 unread posts before I gave up
> and marked the whole newsgroup as "read". Who knows how many good
> on-topic discussions I missed because I couldn't FIND them amongst all
> the noise.
>
I know... It was about 2 good ones, 5 related to woodworking, and 1 that
apologized for being ON-TOPIC. It's a shame we're not busy with
woodworking projects.
I've been wondering about something... but I'll post a new thread to ask
the question.
Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.
In article <[email protected]>,
Keith Nuttle <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week" that
> happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts thinking
> about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he dies,
I wonder what queers think about.
No, perhaps I don't really want to know the answer.
--
Stuart Winsor
Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> But as long as they're holding it, I'll go along.
Please can I hold it as well <g>
--
Stuart Winsor
Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org
tom wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two
>>>>>> noisy O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which
>>>>>> I don't read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only
>>>>>> four of those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bravo...
>>>
>>> It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it
>>> for 15 years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>>
>> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>>
>
> No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
Well - usenet's been like this from shortly after the beginning. Us
dinosaurs like to remember it having been different but if we think back -
it really wasn't. Ok - maybe the OT volume was less, but the issues were
the same. It's the nature of people gathering in any place (whether that is
virtual or physical).
The best advice is that when that starts to bother you, you leave. It
really is kinda foolish to complain about it - it's the natrue of people
gathering together. So what if only a handful of posts interest you? Maybe
that just means your interests are better served elsewhere. Apparently a
significant number of participants here are comfortable enough with most of
the OT threads, because most of them participate in one or another. There's
not a regular here who is not guilty of participating in OT,. or going off
on others. or any of the other things that keep usenet from being some sort
of a pristine environment. It's just life man...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
Steve Turner wrote:
>
> Thanks, and believe me, I can't WAIT to get back to a normal routine
> again. I shall also endeavor to share my experiences with sawdust,
> in the event that I create any sawdust worth talking about! :-)
Hey - how about staying on topic? We've already advanced discussions to
talking about breasts! Oh wait... maybe that was a different thread...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
[email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:52:38 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:59:39 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Keith Nuttle wrote:
>>>>> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>>>>> HeyBub wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do
>>>>>>> more than one thing at a time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts?
>>>>>> Hell - I'm always thinking about them...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
>>>>> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
>>>>> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
>>>>> dies, what is the purpose of it?
>>>>
>>>> I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it
>>>> sure ain't a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
>>>
>>> But as long as they're holding it, I'll go along.
>>
>> Ok - I surrender! On the next Awareness Week, I will step up my
>> awareness. Just to do the right thing, of course...
>
> I'll do everything I can to support them.
Me too! I claim all of the 34B's...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
Steve Turner wrote:
> On 8/24/2012 10:01 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, and believe me, I can't WAIT to get back to a normal routine
>>> again. I shall also endeavor to share my experiences with sawdust,
>>> in the event that I create any sawdust worth talking about! :-)
>>
>> Hey - how about staying on topic? We've already advanced
>> discussions to talking about breasts! Oh wait... maybe that was a
>> different thread...
>
> I'll be right there. :-)
I knew we could count on you!
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:58:35 -0400, "J. Clarke"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Just be happy that it happened in the US in the 21st century. One of
>the major reasons that the Russians didn't get to the Moon was that
>Sergie Korolev, their equivalent of von Braun, did not survive
>hemorrhoid surgery and died before the rocket was ready.
>
Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
On 26 Aug 2012 02:11:48 GMT, Puckdropper
>I know... It was about 2 good ones, 5 related to woodworking, and 1 that
>apologized for being ON-TOPIC. It's a shame we're not busy with
>woodworking projects.
>
>I've been wondering about something... but I'll post a new thread to ask
>the question.
Suggest a new category then. OT is for off topic. How about ONT => ON
TOPIC.
Inject an ONT into the middle of some thread and everybody will know
right away it's a woodworking question.
As soon as the new ONT thread disintegrates into something else,
change the thread to an OT one.
HeyBub wrote:
>
> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more
> than one thing at a time.
>
> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>
> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts? Hell -
I'm always thinking about them...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On 8/25/2012 8:19 AM, HeyBub wrote:
> 34B?
>
> Not interested.
Bullshit ... odds are you could NOT resist a peek, given the chance,
than the statue of liberty pissing in the Pacific. ;)
Besides, depends ... superstructure in pleasing proportion to the size
of foundation.
--
www.eWoodShop.com
Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlCaillouet@ (the obvious)
http://gplus.to/eWoodShop
Mike Marlow wrote:
>>
>> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
>> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
>> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
>> dies, what is the purpose of it?
>
> I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it sure
> ain't a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
Bumper sticker:
When you've seen a breast
You want to see the rest
CW wrote:
>
> Right. Petite women (my favorite)
> ==============================================================================
> Same here. I went to high school in Japan. Talk about a kid in a candy
> store.
I saw a gal at Walmart. She must have been all of 4'10".
She was wearing a T-shirt with the legend "I'm not short, I'm 'fun' sized."
"HeyBub" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
CW wrote:
>
> Right. Petite women (my favorite)
> ==============================================================================
> Same here. I went to high school in Japan. Talk about a kid in a candy
> store.
I saw a gal at Walmart. She must have been all of 4'10".
She was wearing a T-shirt with the legend "I'm not short, I'm 'fun' sized."
===============================================================================
I showed that one to my wife. She thought that was pretty good. She is 4'
11".
"HeyBub" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Mike Marlow wrote:
>>
>> Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
>> fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
>
> Easy! Just wait until the Democratic girl with the right of center
> fiscal beliefs, wearing the Festool green shirt - revealing her
> 34B's, who is there to drown her sorrows over being unemployed for
> the past year, and her disappointment in Obama's promises with no
> hope in Romney, finally gets plowed enough to say "Geezus - I just
> had hemorroid surgery and my freakin' ass is killing me!". Then you
> follow with the classic line... "Speaking of hemorroid surgery"...
> <insert approprite lead in to Sergie's story.
> Geeze - gotta tell some of you guys every damned thing!
34B?
Not interested.
====================================================================================
Yeah, borderline too big.
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
says...
>
> On 8/24/2012 8:13 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:42:04 -0500, Steve Turner
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/23/2012 10:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy O/T
> >>>> political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read), which
> >>>> leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have anything to do
> >>>> with woodworking.
> >>>
> >>>> Bravo...
> >>>>
> >>>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T posts, but
> >>>> that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
> >>>
> >>> So, tell us about what you're doing.
> >>
> >> Not much of anything right now because I'm recovering from hemorrhoid surgery.
> >> The most painful thing I've ever been through in my life... This is truly
> >> one of those times that I feel like I can say without any pomposity or
> >> arrogance that yes, the whole world DOES revolve around my asshole. :-)
> >
> > Ohh, that does sound like a real PITA! Get well fast and then tell us about
> > what sorts of sawdust you're making.
>
> Thanks, and believe me, I can't WAIT to get back to a normal routine again. I
> shall also endeavor to share my experiences with sawdust, in the event that I
> create any sawdust worth talking about! :-)
Just be happy that it happened in the US in the 21st century. One of
the major reasons that the Russians didn't get to the Moon was that
Sergie Korolev, their equivalent of von Braun, did not survive
hemorrhoid surgery and died before the rocket was ready.
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:05:15 -0500, "HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote:
>CW wrote:
>> "HeyBub" wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> CW wrote:
>>>
>>> Right. Petite women (my favorite)
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> Same here. I went to high school in Japan. Talk about a kid in a
>>> candy store.
>>
>> I saw a gal at Walmart. She must have been all of 4'10".
>>
>> She was wearing a T-shirt with the legend "I'm not short, I'm 'fun'
>> sized."
>> ===============================================================================
>>
>> I showed that one to my wife. She thought that was pretty good. She
>> is 4' 11".
>
>Get her the shirt.
>
>I like short girls. Makes me feel taller (and less inhibited).
>
>While standing in line at the Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix not long ago, a
>VERY short TSA Agentette reached up and tapped me on the shoulder. She
>asked: "Excuse me sir, can I get you to do me a big favor?"
>
>I looked down. I slowly shook my head. I said: "I'm sorry, I can't. I'm
>married."
>
>(The TSA picked four of us passengers for additional RANDOM screening. They
>selected me, a senior white male, they also selected a senior black male, a
>young oriental woman, and a young Hispanic chap with a goatee.)
Good thing they don't racially profile, huh?
[email protected] wrote:
>>
>> (The TSA picked four of us passengers for additional RANDOM
>> screening. They selected me, a senior white male, they also selected
>> a senior black male, a young oriental woman, and a young Hispanic
>> chap with a goatee.)
>
> Good thing they don't racially profile, huh?
Of course they don't and they have to be educated. While the four of us
(above) were standing against the wall like uppity school children, one of
the TSA Agentettes was prowling through the Hispanic guy's computer. I guess
she was looking for bomb-making recipes...
Anyway, I said to him (soto voce): "You know, you look more like a terrorist
than the rest of us, so ix-nay on any funny business!"
The agentette looked up and said, quite indignantly I might add, "There's no
such thing as what a terrorist looks like!"
"There damn sure is," I replied. "They're middle-eastern males with names
like Achmed el-Boom-Boom. Didn't you get the memo?"
That earned me another talking-to.
Kenefick wrote:
> And if you reach out and show a pretty lady you are aware of her
> breasts, you can get in to lots of trouble! 8>)
>
Saw a Japanese public service announcement featuring several instances of
men not-so-covertly ogling women's breasts - on the subway, in an elevator,
passing on the street, etc.
Then came the message: "If women paid as much attention to their breasts as
do men, we could defeat breast cancer!"
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:27:33 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>tom wrote:
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two
>>>>>>> noisy O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which
>>>>>>> I don't read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only
>>>>>>> four of those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bravo...
>>>>
>>>> It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it
>>>> for 15 years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>>>
>>> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>>>
>>
>> No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
>
>Well - usenet's been like this from shortly after the beginning. Us
>dinosaurs like to remember it having been different but if we think back -
>it really wasn't. Ok - maybe the OT volume was less, but the issues were
>the same. It's the nature of people gathering in any place (whether that is
>virtual or physical).
>
>The best advice is that when that starts to bother you, you leave. It
>really is kinda foolish to complain about it - it's the natrue of people
>gathering together. So what if only a handful of posts interest you? Maybe
>that just means your interests are better served elsewhere. Apparently a
>significant number of participants here are comfortable enough with most of
>the OT threads, because most of them participate in one or another. There's
>not a regular here who is not guilty of participating in OT,. or going off
>on others. or any of the other things that keep usenet from being some sort
>of a pristine environment. It's just life man...
The other alternative is to post articles that interest you. Perhaps others
will follow. There are two knobs to the S/N ratio. Whining isn't going to
solve anything.
[email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:59:39 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Keith Nuttle wrote:
>>> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>>> HeyBub wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do
>>>>> more than one thing at a time.
>>>>>
>>>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>>>>
>>>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>>>
>>>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts?
>>>> Hell - I'm always thinking about them...
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
>>> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
>>> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
>>> dies, what is the purpose of it?
>>
>> I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it
>> sure ain't a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
>
> But as long as they're holding it, I'll go along.
Ok - I surrender! On the next Awareness Week, I will step up my awareness.
Just to do the right thing, of course...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
Larry Jaques wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:30:11 -0500, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 8/25/2012 8:19 AM, HeyBub wrote:
>>
>>> 34B?
>>>
>>> Not interested.
>>
>> Bullshit ... odds are you could NOT resist a peek, given the chance,
>> than the statue of liberty pissing in the Pacific. ;)
>>
>> Besides, depends ... superstructure in pleasing proportion to the
>> size of foundation.
>
> Right. Petite women (my favorite) can be pretty stacked at 34B.
> Besides, Confucius say "More than mouthful wasted."
> I can't stand 46PP breasts, myself.
Too much is... almost vulgar. Give me 34B any day!
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:19:30 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:58:35 -0400, "J. Clarke"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Just be happy that it happened in the US in the 21st century. One of
>>> the major reasons that the Russians didn't get to the Moon was that
>>> Sergie Korolev, their equivalent of von Braun, did not survive
>>> hemorrhoid surgery and died before the rocket was ready.
>>>
>>
>> Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
>> fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
>
>Easy! Just wait until the Democratic girl with the right of center fiscal
>beliefs, wearing the Festool green shirt - revealing her 34B's, who is there
>to drown her sorrows over being unemployed for the past year, and her
>disappointment in Obama's promises with no hope in Romney, finally gets
>plowed enough to say "Geezus - I just had hemorroid surgery and my freakin'
>ass is killing me!". Then you follow with the classic line... "Speaking of
>hemorroid surgery"... <insert approprite lead in to Sergie's story.
>
>Geeze - gotta tell some of you guys every damned thing!
Crap! Have you been studying Usenet posting at HeyBub college?
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy O/T
>political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read), which
>leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have anything to do
>with woodworking.
>Bravo...
>
>(And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T posts, but
>that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
So, tell us about what you're doing.
Steve Turner wrote:
> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>
> Bravo...
>
> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T
> posts, but that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more than
one thing at a time.
For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
On 8/23/2012 10:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy O/T
>> political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read), which
>> leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have anything to do
>> with woodworking.
>
>> Bravo...
>>
>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T posts, but
>> that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
>
> So, tell us about what you're doing.
Not much of anything right now because I'm recovering from hemorrhoid surgery.
The most painful thing I've ever been through in my life... This is truly
one of those times that I feel like I can say without any pomposity or
arrogance that yes, the whole world DOES revolve around my asshole. :-)
--
"Our beer goes through thousands of quality Czechs every day."
(From a Shiner Bock billboard I saw in Austin some years ago)
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On 8/23/12 11:42 PM, Steve Turner wrote:
> On 8/23/2012 10:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>> O/T
>>> political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read),
>>> which
>>> leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have
>>> anything to do
>>> with woodworking.
>>
>>> Bravo...
>>>
>>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T
>>> posts, but
>>> that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
>>
>> So, tell us about what you're doing.
>
> Not much of anything right now because I'm recovering from hemorrhoid
> surgery.
I can't believe you posted that on a newsgroup.
BTW, I told you to brush that oak dust off your stool before sitting down.
See what you get?
At least you didn't tell us all about the herpes. :-)
--
-MIKE-
"Playing is not something I do at night, it's my function in life"
--Elvin Jones (1927-2004)
--
http://mikedrums.com
[email protected]
---remove "DOT" ^^^^ to reply
On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> HeyBub wrote:
>
>>
>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more
>> than one thing at a time.
>>
>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>
>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>
> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts? Hell -
> I'm always thinking about them...
>
That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week" that
happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts thinking
about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he dies, what is
the purpose of it?
On 8/24/2012 8:13 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:42:04 -0500, Steve Turner
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 8/23/2012 10:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy O/T
>>>> political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read), which
>>>> leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have anything to do
>>>> with woodworking.
>>>
>>>> Bravo...
>>>>
>>>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T posts, but
>>>> that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
>>>
>>> So, tell us about what you're doing.
>>
>> Not much of anything right now because I'm recovering from hemorrhoid surgery.
>> The most painful thing I've ever been through in my life... This is truly
>> one of those times that I feel like I can say without any pomposity or
>> arrogance that yes, the whole world DOES revolve around my asshole. :-)
>
> Ohh, that does sound like a real PITA! Get well fast and then tell us about
> what sorts of sawdust you're making.
Thanks, and believe me, I can't WAIT to get back to a normal routine again. I
shall also endeavor to share my experiences with sawdust, in the event that I
create any sawdust worth talking about! :-)
--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On 8/24/2012 12:02 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
> On 8/23/12 11:42 PM, Steve Turner wrote:
>> On 8/23/2012 10:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:43:33 -0500, Steve Turner
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>>> O/T
>>>> political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't read),
>>>> which
>>>> leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of those have
>>>> anything to do
>>>> with woodworking.
>>>
>>>> Bravo...
>>>>
>>>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T
>>>> posts, but
>>>> that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
>>>
>>> So, tell us about what you're doing.
>>
>> Not much of anything right now because I'm recovering from hemorrhoid
>> surgery.
>
> I can't believe you posted that on a newsgroup.
> BTW, I told you to brush that oak dust off your stool before sitting down.
> See what you get?
>
> At least you didn't tell us all about the herpes. :-)
Hey, I've got nothing to hide! I figure this venue is probably a better place
for discussing assholes than any of the other forums where the young and
impressionable types hang out. :-) I was also kinda curious if anybody else
here had ever been through the same pain and torture... With all the seasoned
veterans we have in here surely I'm not the only one? It has to be a more
interesting topic than the same old re-hashed political discussions we're
wading through right now. :-)
--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On 8/24/2012 10:01 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> Steve Turner wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks, and believe me, I can't WAIT to get back to a normal routine
>> again. I shall also endeavor to share my experiences with sawdust,
>> in the event that I create any sawdust worth talking about! :-)
>
> Hey - how about staying on topic? We've already advanced discussions to
> talking about breasts! Oh wait... maybe that was a different thread...
I'll be right there. :-)
--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On 8/24/2012 10:03 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> Steve Turner wrote:
>
>
>> Hey, I've got nothing to hide! I figure this venue is probably a
>> better place for discussing assholes than any of the other forums
>> where the young and impressionable types hang out. :-) I was also
>> kinda curious if anybody else here had ever been through the same
>> pain and torture... With all the seasoned veterans we have in here
>> surely I'm not the only one? It has to be a more interesting topic
>> than the same old re-hashed political discussions we're wading
>> through right now. :-)
>
> Nope (thankfully...). But - I did think that they had evolved this process
> to something far less painful and far less long-lived. I thought laser
> technologies had made this kind of thing almost a walk in the park. I guess
> not...
Well it was two weeks yesterday since my surgery and only in the past few days
have I reached the point where I'm not screaming out "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!"
every time nature calls. I don't think there's a grown man on this earth that
wouldn't be brought to tears the first few times they go through that
experience. I also found it interesting to hear a woman's perspective on this
matter:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_surgeries_have_the_most_painful_recovery
My experience hasn't been quite as bad as hers (mainly in terms of the length
of recovery), but her description of the level of pain as it compares to other
conditions (most notably, childbirth) matches my own assumptions. It fugging
HURTS!
--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
Just Wondering wrote:
> On 8/24/2012 6:05 AM, HeyBub wrote:
>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
>>> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
>>> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>
>>> Bravo...
>>>
>>> (And yes, I "get" the irony of making an O/T post to bitch about O/T
>>> posts, but that is a seriously sorry signal-to-noise ratio.)
>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more than
>> one thing at a time.
>>
>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>
>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>
>>
> Now, that's an accident waiting to happen.
I'm with you. I think there is plenty to think about in sawing a plank,
and to suggest otherwise is a detriment to the craft. I admit I may
belong to the group of those who are occasionally humor-impaired.
>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
>>> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
>>> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>
>>> Bravo...
It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it for 15
years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
On 8/24/2012 10:19 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:58:35 -0400, "J. Clarke"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Just be happy that it happened in the US in the 21st century. One of
>>> the major reasons that the Russians didn't get to the Moon was that
>>> Sergie Korolev, their equivalent of von Braun, did not survive
>>> hemorrhoid surgery and died before the rocket was ready.
>>>
>>
>> Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
>> fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
>
> Easy! Just wait until the Democratic girl with the right of center fiscal
> beliefs, wearing the Festool green shirt - revealing her 34B's, who is there
> to drown her sorrows over being unemployed for the past year, and her
> disappointment in Obama's promises with no hope in Romney, finally gets
> plowed enough to say "Geezus - I just had hemorroid surgery and my freakin'
> ass is killing me!". Then you follow with the classic line... "Speaking of
> hemorroid surgery"... <insert approprite lead in to Sergie's story.
>
> Geeze - gotta tell some of you guys every damned thing!
LOL!
--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>>>> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
>>>>> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
>>>>> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bravo...
>>
>>It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it for 15
>>years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>
> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>
No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
On 8/25/2012 8:07 PM, ChairMan wrote:
> Mike Marlow wrote:
>> tom wrote:
>>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two
>>>>>>>> noisy O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which
>>>>>>>> I don't read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and
>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>> four of those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bravo...
>>>>>
>>>>> It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it
>>>>> for 15 years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>>>>
>>>> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
>>
>> Well - usenet's been like this from shortly after the beginning. Us
>> dinosaurs like to remember it having been different but if we think
>> back - it really wasn't. Ok - maybe the OT volume was less, but the
>> issues were the same. It's the nature of people gathering in any
>> place (whether that is virtual or physical).
>>
>> The best advice is that when that starts to bother you, you leave.
>> It
>> really is kinda foolish to complain about it - it's the natrue of
>> people gathering together. So what if only a handful of posts
>> interest you? Maybe that just means your interests are better served
>> elsewhere. Apparently a significant number of participants here are
>> comfortable enough with most of the OT threads, because most of them
>> participate in one or another. There's not a regular here who is not
>> guilty of participating in OT,. or going off on others. or any of the
>> other things that keep usenet from being some sort of a pristine
>> environment. It's just life man...
>
> it amazes me at the inability of people to just mark read what they
> don't want to read or KF people they don't want to hear.
> F**kin nuts
OK, YOU try being gone from the group for three weeks or so (not by choice) and
coming back to over 2700 unread posts, then try to find the ones that are
woodworking related without missing any. I recently did that and I spent
several hours trawling through threads, trying to ignore the ones that were
noise while not missing any that were on topic. I didn't even get down to 2000
unread posts before I gave up and marked the whole newsgroup as "read". Who
knows how many good on-topic discussions I missed because I couldn't FIND them
amongst all the noise.
--
Any given amount of traffic flow, no matter how
sparse, will expand to fill all available lanes.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On 8/25/2012 9:31 PM, Steve Turner wrote:
> On 8/25/2012 8:07 PM, ChairMan wrote:
>> it amazes me at the inability of people to just mark read what they
>> don't want to read or KF people they don't want to hear.
>> F**kin nuts
>
> OK, YOU try being gone from the group for three weeks or so (not by
> choice) and coming back to over 2700 unread posts, then try to find the
> ones that are woodworking related without missing any.
I keep 3 weeks worth, back to 8/11 and I show 1497 messages.
I recently did
> that and I spent several hours trawling through threads, trying to
> ignore the ones that were noise while not missing any that were on
> topic. I didn't even get down to 2000 unread posts before I gave up and
> marked the whole newsgroup as "read". Who knows how many good on-topic
> discussions I missed because I couldn't FIND them amongst all the noise.
Out of 1500 messages, there are only a few threads, maybe 50 or so. Out
of those subjects, I would be hard pressed NOT to know which ones are
not wood related in just from the subject line. For example, what part
of "you guys make it hard to follow this group" tricks you into thinking
it is "on topic"?
Even if you think "O/T BLOG POST OF THE DAY" or " A Political view with
which everyone might agree" might be "on topic" 2 seconds looking at
the first post and you can skip all 10000 messages in an instant if you
so choose.
I think you are complaining just to hear yourself complain. More proof
of that is that out of all 2000 messages, you replied 11 times, 9 to
obviously off topic posts, and 2 on topic. So, you yourself (much like
everyone) appear more interested in off topic than on topic stuff.
--
Jack
Add Life to your Days not Days to your Life.
http://jbstein.com
On 8/26/2012 8:56 AM, Jack wrote:
> On 8/25/2012 9:31 PM, Steve Turner wrote:
>> On 8/25/2012 8:07 PM, ChairMan wrote:
>
>>> it amazes me at the inability of people to just mark read what they
>>> don't want to read or KF people they don't want to hear.
>>> F**kin nuts
>>
>> OK, YOU try being gone from the group for three weeks or so (not by
>> choice) and coming back to over 2700 unread posts, then try to find the
>> ones that are woodworking related without missing any.
>
> I keep 3 weeks worth, back to 8/11 and I show 1497 messages.
OK, so maybe it was a lot longer than three weeks. The problem exacerbates
over time. I'm away for two weeks, come back and it's 1200 unread messages.
"GEEZ, I don't have time to read all that now!" Get pulled away for another
week, and so on. All I know is by the time I finally decided to tackle the
monster there were over 2700 unread messages.
> I recently did
>> that and I spent several hours trawling through threads, trying to
>> ignore the ones that were noise while not missing any that were on
>> topic. I didn't even get down to 2000 unread posts before I gave up and
>> marked the whole newsgroup as "read". Who knows how many good on-topic
>> discussions I missed because I couldn't FIND them amongst all the noise.
>
> Out of 1500 messages, there are only a few threads, maybe 50 or so. Out of
> those subjects, I would be hard pressed NOT to know which ones are not wood
> related in just from the subject line. For example, what part of "you guys
> make it hard to follow this group" tricks you into thinking it is "on topic"?
>
> Even if you think "O/T BLOG POST OF THE DAY" or " A Political view with which
> everyone might agree" might be "on topic" 2 seconds looking at the first post
> and you can skip all 10000 messages in an instant if you so choose.
The threads that are clearly marked as you describe aren't the problem. It's
when an on-topic thread strays off-topic in 27 different places, yet there are
still on-topic branches here and there that are worth reading if you can find them.
> I think you are complaining just to hear yourself complain. More proof of that
> is that out of all 2000 messages, you replied 11 times, 9 to obviously off
> topic posts, and 2 on topic. So, you yourself (much like everyone) appear more
> interested in off topic than on topic stuff.
Clearly, you spent just a little too much time trying to track down my posting
habits so you could feel justified in bitching at my bitching, but you're more
than just a little off base my friend. Those posts are a side-effect of my
popping in here only a few times over the span of several weeks and being
completely overwhelmed by the unread traffic, and my replies (as I recollect)
were mostly to "pals" of mine in light-hearted context, to a few of the
most-recent threads that I actually stumbled upon and had the time say a little
something about before giving up and living the rest of my life. If all the
participants in this group only averaged 9 off-topic replies over the span of
three weeks or a month, then I don't think there would by ANY problem keeping
up with the traffic, do you? Most "offenders" in the group can average more
than 9 off-topic posts within the span of about an hour.
--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:17:34 -0400, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:16:28 -0400, Keith Nuttle
>>That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week" that
>>happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts thinking
>>about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he dies, what is
>>the purpose of it?
>
>That's the week you're made to think about them a little differently
>than normal and possibly come up with a little cash to donate.
Why? Didn't Obamacare cure that, too?
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:30:11 -0500, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 8/25/2012 8:19 AM, HeyBub wrote:
>
>> 34B?
>>
>> Not interested.
>
>Bullshit ... odds are you could NOT resist a peek, given the chance,
>than the statue of liberty pissing in the Pacific. ;)
>
>Besides, depends ... superstructure in pleasing proportion to the size
>of foundation.
Right. Petite women (my favorite)
==============================================================================
Same here. I went to high school in Japan. Talk about a kid in a candy
store.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:19:30 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:58:35 -0400, "J. Clarke"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Just be happy that it happened in the US in the 21st century. One of
>>> the major reasons that the Russians didn't get to the Moon was that
>>> Sergie Korolev, their equivalent of von Braun, did not survive
>>> hemorrhoid surgery and died before the rocket was ready.
>>>
>>
>> Wow, you can get the most informative stuff here. Now to weave that
>> fact into a conversation at a party or at the bar. . . .
>
>Easy! Just wait until the Democratic girl with the right of center fiscal
>beliefs, wearing the Festool green shirt - revealing her 34B's, who is there
>to drown her sorrows over being unemployed for the past year, and her
>disappointment in Obama's promises with no hope in Romney, finally gets
>plowed enough to say "Geezus - I just had hemorroid surgery and my freakin'
>ass is killing me!". Then you follow with the classic line... "Speaking of
>hemorroid surgery"... <insert approprite lead in to Sergie's story.
>
>Geeze - gotta tell some of you guys every damned thing!
I'd reply, but I'm too busy laughing.
John H. Gohde wrote:
>
>
> How about staring at the 2012 Republican National Convention being
> held in Tampa, Fla. during Hurricane season?
>
> Having a Republican National Convention is a flagrant waste of money,
> but to host in in Florida during Hurricane season is the ultimate in
> stupidity.
You raise some interesting, though flawed, points.
First, it's the federal contribution* and the parties are entitled to spend
it however they see fit.
Second, Florida is a battleground state and the GOP feels that having their
convention there enhances their ability to carry the state.
Third, a prayer vigil was held to re-track Hurricane Isaac. God heard the
prayers of the righteous and called a rinse-cycle for New Orleans.
----
* $4 million. And the party may not spend more than that, although they may
take unlimited in-kind donations from city, county, and state governments.
Steve Turner wrote:
> On 8/25/2012 8:07 PM, ChairMan wrote:
>> Mike Marlow wrote:
>>> tom wrote:
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the
>>>>>>>>> two noisy O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread
>>>>>>>>> (which I don't read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread
>>>>>>>>> posts, and only
>>>>>>>>> four of those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Bravo...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it
>>>>>> for 15 years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who nailed your foot to the floor?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No nail......just an ever increasing number of people like you.
>>>
>>> Well - usenet's been like this from shortly after the beginning.
>>> Us
>>> dinosaurs like to remember it having been different but if we think
>>> back - it really wasn't. Ok - maybe the OT volume was less, but
>>> the
>>> issues were the same. It's the nature of people gathering in any
>>> place (whether that is virtual or physical).
>>>
>>> The best advice is that when that starts to bother you, you leave.
>>> It
>>> really is kinda foolish to complain about it - it's the natrue of
>>> people gathering together. So what if only a handful of posts
>>> interest you? Maybe that just means your interests are better
>>> served elsewhere. Apparently a significant number of participants
>>> here are comfortable enough with most of the OT threads, because
>>> most of them participate in one or another. There's not a regular
>>> here who is not guilty of participating in OT,. or going off on
>>> others. or any of the other things that keep usenet from being some
>>> sort of a pristine environment. It's just life man...
>>
>> it amazes me at the inability of people to just mark read what they
>> don't want to read or KF people they don't want to hear.
>> F**kin nuts
>
> OK, YOU try being gone from the group for three weeks or so (not by
> choice) and coming back to over 2700 unread posts, then try to find
> the ones that are woodworking related without missing any. I
> recently did that and I spent several hours trawling through threads,
> trying to ignore the ones that were noise while not missing any that
> were on topic. I didn't even get down to 2000 unread posts before I
> gave up and marked the whole newsgroup as "read". Who knows how many
> good on-topic discussions I missed because I couldn't FIND them
> amongst all the noise.
I hear ya, but every so often ya just gotta markem all read and start
over.
Ya ain't going to miss anythiong earth shattering that hasn't already
been discuss, and if by chance you do, you'll shirley pick it up in the
new replies
don't pet the sweaty stuff and don't sweat the petty stuff
jmo
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:59:39 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Keith Nuttle wrote:
>> On 8/24/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>>> HeyBub wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's because we're multi-dimensional; we can think about and do more
>>>> than one thing at a time.
>>>>
>>>> For instance, what do you think about while hand-sawing a plank?
>>>>
>>>> Me? I think of breasts, but your dreams may vary.
>>>
>>> You wait until you're hand-sawing a plank to think about breasts? Hell -
>>> I'm always thinking about them...
>>>
>>
>>
>> That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week"
>> that happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts
>> thinking about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he
>> dies, what is the purpose of it?
>
>I hear ya, brother! Must be a women's movement thing, 'cause it sure ain't
>a guy thing! We don't need no awareness week!
But as long as they're holding it, I'll go along.
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:30:11 -0500, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 8/25/2012 8:19 AM, HeyBub wrote:
>
>> 34B?
>>
>> Not interested.
>
>Bullshit ... odds are you could NOT resist a peek, given the chance,
>than the statue of liberty pissing in the Pacific. ;)
>
>Besides, depends ... superstructure in pleasing proportion to the size
>of foundation.
Right. Petite women (my favorite) can be pretty stacked at 34B.
Besides, Confucius say "More than mouthful wasted."
I can't stand 46PP breasts, myself.
--
"Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:16:28 -0400, Keith Nuttle
>That is what I do not understand about the "Breast Awareness Week" that
>happens in the US at least once a year. Since a man starts thinking
>about breast at the age of 1 week and continues until he dies, what is
>the purpose of it?
That's the week you're made to think about them a little differently
than normal and possibly come up with a little cash to donate.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:21 -0500, "tom" <31@~.com> wrote:
>
>>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>>> Gone for 24 hours; come back, 114 unread posts. I kill the two noisy
>>>> O/T political threads and the "What is it?" thread (which I don't
>>>> read), which leaves me with SEVEN unread posts, and only four of
>>>> those have anything to do with woodworking.
>>>>
>>>> Bravo...
>
>It's the same with most of Usenet these days. After following it for 15
>years I doubt I'll be looking at it at all in a year.
Who nailed your foot to the floor?