From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: The man without a number
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 10:48:36 GMT

Jim Meyer (purp@wixer.cactus.org) wrote:
: In article <1992Sep01.142654.13116@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
: >Steve Bade (steve@zx11.cactus.org) wrote:
: >: Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu (Richard A. Swift) writes:
: >: ]topping-off the ZX-10 tank and loading-up Mr. Mossburg with the OO magnum
: >: 		                               ^^^^^^^^  If you
: 							 ++++++
: >
: >: can't spell the manufacturers name (Mossberg) you probably can even load it.
: >  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: >   This is a strange sentence.
: 
: Unusual, maybe. Strange, no.
: 
: >: They might but your ass is gonna be so sore, the boys obviously are
: >: gonna have a fun time in retribution for your in ability to 
: >  ~~~~~                                         ~~~~~~~~~~
: >                                     Weird word formation.
: 
: The first: common usage on American BBSs has established many such
: contractions; I would surmise (having used many of them myself) to
: attempt to type more like we speak. M'lud does equate to My Lord, does
: it not?
: 
: The second: Whooops...
: 
: >Good grief!  Do they have schools where you livein America?  If so, do they
: 					     ++++++
: 
: At least in America, a livein (optionally: live-in) is some sort of domestic
: servant. Don't they have schools where you live in the UK?
: 
: >teach you anything other than strange football and world domination?
: >
: >Mr. Swift ought to be encouraged, with just a few lines of well thought out
: 				 +
: 
: I will presume, Nick, that you intended to strike the semi-colon key
: with your right pinky (or your nose; I don't know much about the strange
: customs of English Bikers) rather than the comma key that is usually
: struck with the right middle finger.
: 

No, I have always felt somewhat intimidated by the semi-colon.  I prefer to use
the comma and let my readers extrapolate a tad.  "You know where you are with
the comma".  Rudyard Kipling, 1915

: >prose, he has succeeded in generating an enormous number of replies and
: >started off a number of subsidiary discussions.  "Well done that man", is
: >what I say.					   ++++++++++++++++++
: 
: I'm writing this off as purely English slang; else, I'd have to try to
: puzzle out exactly where the punctuation belongs to express what you
: were thinking.
: 
: >By the way, my shaft drive bike doesn't seem to counter steer terribly well, I
: >was wonderi.....   "Aaaargh"  (sound of throat being cut).
: 
: [drops bloody knife and attempts to look innocent]
: 
: >Mr. Swift: Provocateur Extraordinaire!
: >
: >
: >Nick (the English Biker)   DoD No. 1069   MAG No. 73516
: >
: >M'Lud. [Ed. Note: My Lord, for those of you who don't speak English]
: 
: I can hear it now.
: 
: Nick: "You son of a..."
: Purp: "...n English teacher. Yes."
: 
: --Purp, who knows not to flame spelling or grammar unless one can do so
:         without flaw.
: -- 
: +---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+
: | Jim Meyer     | If I express an opinion, you | purp@wixer.cactus.org |
: | Austin, Tejas | can bet no one else agrees.  | aka jimpurp@pro-lep   |
: +---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+



haY, eye woz board ohcay!  Snot meye folt I cant tipe rite, issit?

Sheesh, ewe americuns, ewe fink ewe one us awl, awl du thyme!  Well, wee gotta
sayuswel!  And as fur dat blowdy Quisty, 'e can blowdywel pish off two!  Whosse
uptwo anyways, sinkin' a purfeckly gud ripleye?

Atmeye Board skule, wee 'ad proppur slaytes n all, an digi'ul calkula'us, (well
akshually, we jus' 'ad tu oose ar digits).  Snuff sed!  Eyem propu annoid!  I
go'a byk enneye?  Sowot ifits a kraut one, stilgo' too weelz!  Yah, fu'off!

K'in pessun's!  K'mon Malcum, s'go for a wazz!


Ogri (Nick the English Biker's friend).   DoD wots tha'?   MAG yes!
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA