Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Dove trovo le FAQ del NG?

Coma da oggetto, grazie 1000 or thanks thousands:)
Michele

Fai bene a non rimarcare il fatto che tu sia ingegnere. Un tocco di eleganza
non guasta mai. Ti sei laureato alla CEPU insieme a Peltio?
Ciao
Sua Eccellenza Lucangel, dottore in Patafisica Comparata.
--
Compagni dai campi e dalle officine
prendete la falce, portate il martello,
scendete in via Lorenteggio e picchiate con quello.
[Pietrangeli, 'Contessa']
"Mattiolo Ing. Michele"

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 Ma "remain as always" cosa?
Dear Michele,
Your humble and obedient servant.
Ever and as always your loyal and faithful admirer.
Believe me, most faithfully....
Believe me, dear Sir, your obliged, and faithful, humb. sert.,
...having the good fortune and grace to be accounted your....
etc., ecc..
The choice, good Sir, in entirely yours as your pleasure and needs might
dictate.
Remaining as ever yours in the hope of having answered your query to your
full satisfaction and wishing you a pleasant  and serene afternoon,
Bambi,
dtb

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Take a look here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8suqe5%24t0r%241%40nslave2.tin.it
Max
PS:  Bambi, I wonder why one of the dear old two "ecc."'s has now turned
into "etc".

 into "etc".
Dear Max,
It was a bright, sunny, calm and none too hot August afternoon.
When allofasudden, flash!, bang, brrrr, hummmm!!
Snap!crackle! POP!
Fizz.
An awed hush fell upon the room.  Heartbeat audible; breath bated (as
custom requires); curiosity duly aroused.
"It is over" thought I, though in
truth none the wiser regarding _what_ precisely (not to speak of
approximately) 'it' may have been in the first place.  Arising with not
a little trepidation to venture towards the source of such a hubbub of
activity, a final, faint 'crackle' was barely to be heard and a last wisp of
smoke could be seen seductively wending its way upward toward what one can
only presume to be technological paradise.
It was obvious that to which I had just been privy to.
Heaving a reluctant sigh, one departed the scene of the fatality and ignored
it for the remainder of the sunny, (previously) calm but by now all too hot
August afternoon, resigned to yet another death in the technological family
which by now, have become all too sadly a fact of each half year (or so it
seems to this writer).
Having but a few months previously bought the second of an
all-new-all-singing-all-dancing modern miracle, more commonly called a PC,
one resigned oneself to its lack of singing and almost rejoiced at its lack
of dancing and had settled down to an amicable co-habitation of the
'Functional if not strictly I'm in the mood' type, with many a "Not tonight
Josephine's"
interspersed along the path of this less than idyllic relationship.
That which transpired that August afternoon gave the writer to understand
that this relationship, also, like all too many others before of a similar
nature
had also, inexplicably, come to a sudden and abrupt end.
With no word of warning, not a  'Dear John' in sight, it was ended.
Over.
Biting the bullet, one did what one had to do and promptly set about
acquiring yet another all singing all dancing partner with whom to while
away the hours, coincidentally usually the night ones but not limited
exclusively to these.
To cut a long story short. From this brand new all singing all...(see
above) ..
One UPS later.(Verily! Above mentioned snap, crackle, pop emanated from this
very beast
of a machine which for reasons unknown took umbrage at who knows what
and literally exploded. Not quietly at all and taking with it 1 motherboard,
one CPU and 1 ventilator. It was French. Need I say more).
Two substituted memory pins later (no, je means to dire monsieurs, *two*
defective memory pins dans one blooming machine, I don't know if I'm making
myself understood here!)
One sound card later (Ladies and gentlemen; we are referring to a brand new
PC at not an inconsiderable cost and already before it has even entered my
domicile we have detected not one but 2 faulty memory pins, and a
malfunctioning sound card.  Was I not , I humbly ask,  slightly justified
when I started
to GET A LITTLE CROSS?)
The new motherboard - mais of b***y course does not have a SCSI port with
_ISA_ (no reference at all to our most gracious HRH) slot but the 'new' PCI
hence? Hence we cannot avail ourselves of our old and trusted scanner of
whom we are rather fond and who has rendered true and loyal service these
many years past and of which we are in no hurry to throw out.
The horrendous demise came about, as stated, in August and the more alert
among you will no doubt have noticed we are now well into the month of
November.  In the ensuing months, one has had the chance to travel whilst
waiting for non-existing spare parts to materialise from heavens knows where
(and perhaps heaven cares but the truth is the undersigned doesn't).  All
that the undersigned knows and cares about is the fact that said pieces did
*not* materialise.  Perhaps, perchance, maybe you might now be asking, with
an all new all singing ....etc what's the point of all this?
Simply that of course accepting lack of scanner in the interest of having an
up and running (running to where is yet another tale), machine was a
sacrifice one
was prepared to make. In the meantime one had the opportunity to visit
friends in the Realm, take part in a joyous event of not insignificant
meaning, (always such an enjoyable pastime), imbibe many a glass of bolly
(fear not, our duties were discharged as they should have
been and in no less a manner than you would have expected) and returning at
last, one was almost lulled into believing that the
desire for an up and running, all singing......ecc  machine had been
realised.
One was of course mistaken.
A little joke that life enjoys playing from time to time.
At this point (with consideration being had for the extreme boredom this
outburst is no doubt causing many), we are grappling with a video card which
simply, obstinately and most adamantly refuses (point blank) to work
correctly.
In, during, and throughout all of the above, one has had to reformat and
reformat and reformat and (now to the simple answer to Max's loaded inquiry
which has brought this missive about) I am simply weary beyond imagining at
having to re-set all the many little personalisation options one is fooled
into believing one has..'Insert your own personalised emoticons to give your
letters your very own personal feel'. [NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT THE O/S
ISN'T FUNCTIONING, LOOK AT THE LITTLE FAT BALL SMILING LIKE AN EEJIT INSTEAD
AND
TAKE YOUR MIND OFF MINOR INCONVENIENT DETAILS]  for example.
Today's very latest update on our computer blues; the letter ' ' - hint it
comes after a, b,... won't function and out printer has decided to pack it
up.
By August 2002, I am confident however, the correct number of etc., and
ecc., will be in place where they rightly belong.
And I heard her exclaim as she fumed out of sight, a good week to all and
to all a goodnight.
Indulgence at allowing the enclosed outburst duly noted and appreciated, we
shall away to Bolly-land.
One remains as always etc., ecc. (xxx)
Bambi
dtb

up.
Who was that writer who could write a whole book without 
using the letter 'e' ? Another case of lousy customer service,
I suppose.
Anyway, here are some C's you can use (I can send more):
ccccccCCCCCccccccCCCCCCCccccccccCCCCcccccccc
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I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

time when computers were not around...
Hint: demographic trends
Cheers,
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscali.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/index.htm

 dtb
A tad 'ticked off' is one?
:-)
In the microsecond your machine is working, check the internet for
compatability info on video cards. It may save you some grief. (oops,
too late)
Auguri. 
Cheers,
Loki
-- 
  Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare

 ccccccCCCCCccccccCCCCCCCccccccccCCCCcccccccc
Dear  Lupo Buono,
No less than one would expect from a Knight of the Realm. I fear however,
that your aid comes too late and first thing tomorrow, we must avail
ourselves of a new keyboard. Such are the times we live in.
I remain, good sir, as always, etc. ecc.,
Bambi
dtb
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Dear Loki,
One is.
Just a tad.
Was it that obvious? (Rhetorical question)
With thanks for your suggestion.
I remain as always, ecc. etc.,
Bambi
dtb