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

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > 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

Umm... well... ah... "I said 40, not 41.  And you will vote yes on my next 
proposal" *waves his hand*

Orc in a Spacesuit

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