Re: [spoon-discuss] Testing....

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 03:13  PM, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

> > From: bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > On Friday 09 May 2003 10:00 am, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > > From: "Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > > > Hey BvS, what possible use is it to have the last 10,000 messages  
> > > > > hanging
> > > > > around?
> > > > >
> > > > > Orc in a Spacesuit
> > > >
> > > > -This is sad on so many levels I can't even count them, and both of  
> > > > them
> > > > are pretty sad. First, you actually counted 10 minutes. Second, I  
> > > > actually
> > > > forgot.
> > >
> > > I knew that sounded familiar... check out a recent 8-Bit Theater  
> > > comic at
> > > http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030408 .  BvS, do you  
> > > read it?
> > > For those unfamiliar with it, it's a parody of the original Final  
> > > Fantasy
> > > game for the NES.
> > >
> > > By the way, this is the 38'th reply to a testing message.  Might we  
> > > be
> > > heading towards a record?
> > USENET holds that record, easy. There's a thread in reply to a troll's
> > pity-post in usenet. 5000something posts, and there's a tradition to
> > resuscitate it every once in a while.
> > http://groups.google.com/ 
> > groups?selm=19990102222856.12510.00006630%40ng23.aol.com
>
> Oh, I had no illusions have having any record on a large scale.  I  
> just meant that in terms of B Nomic.  We tend to do this kind of thing  
> often; I was wondering if we had outdone ourselves this time.

I never understood that phrase. By definition, you cannot outdo  
yourself, for whatever action you take that causes you to be outdone  
is, by virtue of having been done by you, setting a new standard for  
what it means to outdo you. It's like the way it's never tomorrow, and  
my score is undefined when it's 100 more than it is.

> And this makes 41.

You said 38... two messages later, you say 41... unless my math skills  
have seriously depreciated lately, something isn't quite right here...

--
Wonko

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