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#75494 07/11/2002 9:02 PM
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Here to serve. Jopo.


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May I site your coments as evidence for the proposition?


#75496 07/11/2002 9:24 PM
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Thanks.


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You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk? Dont you just h8 this kind crap? Yes or no?


#75498 07/11/2002 9:33 PM
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Are you learning all this invisible writing stuff at school?
You must let me know how its done so I can tell me kids. Thanks.


#75499 07/11/2002 10:15 PM
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OK, JoPublic good buddy,
you can tell your me-kids
that you had a fine chance to understand
the nature of life and then
Milo said that
you lost it. - .


#75500 07/11/2002 10:18 PM
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I knew you were onside on this one Bill, despite the warnings in your private mails. No worries I'm flame proof. Take it easy, Jopo.


#75501 07/11/2002 10:29 PM
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I heard a group of laughing professors
about thirty years ago
discussing Eye Cue.

One of them
had read of a study
in which it had been
proven--
as such studies seem
always to be able to prove--
that one could
predict
the average Eye Cue
of the group
by the number of times
EACH member laughed
during a
set time
of intercourse.

The higher
the average
of number of laughs,
the higher the average Eye
Cue
of
the
group.

Roll them smileys
out!

We'll just
be that
much
smarter!

[I cannot cite
my source.
Too long
ago,
and,
besides,
who believes
studies?

[raspberry-wannabe-e]

Test regards,
WordWise


#75502 07/11/2002 10:42 PM
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two things:

1. I take back all I said about Rubrick fixing the wide post. It was only just a matter of a different browser -- in IE it's still reallllllllly wide.

2. hey jopublic: as a flatlander I can't tell which of your recent posts applies to whom -- but I guess it doesn't really matter a whit as each doesn't say much. [no wink]


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One of them
had read of a study
in which it had been
proven--
as such studies seem
always to be able to prove--
that one could
predict
the average Eye Cue
of the group
by the number of times
EACH member laughed
during a
set time
of intercourse. Dear WW: was this a study by Masters and Johnson?


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Why would you want to call someone a jerk and not mean it?
Thats funny is it?
Your ability to be condescending exceeds both your ability
argue a rigourous case and on the face of it, to make people laugh.
Your base assumption, despite the abcence of smilleys in my proposition, was that I agreed with it. This is not consistent with the thesis you put forward, and may well therefor be ill founded.

Cheers, Jopo.


#75505 07/12/2002 9:25 AM
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1. I take back all I said about Rubrick fixing the wide post. It was only just a matter of a different browser -- in IE it's still reallllllllly wide.

Thanks, tsuwm. When I originally posted it was slightly wider than the screen width. Now it seems to be inordinately long thanks to jopublic's very mature post of a line of dots.


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May I site your coments as evidence for the proposition?

Wow, jopublic. You write just like this Chicago so-called lawyer I know. Are you related to him?

Do you stay up all night writing your posts or do you just write them when the Chicago Internet cafés are open?

You're a thinker (or so you say). Ponder that.


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One of them
had read of a study
in which it had been
proven--
as such studies seem
always to be able to prove--
that one could
predict
the average Eye Cue
of the group
by the number of times
EACH member laughed
during a
set time
of intercourse. Dear WW: was this a study by Masters and Johnson?


Dear wwh,

I don't know whose study it was, wwh. I doubt it was Masters and Johnson. Don't think their interest lay primarily with either laughter or Eye Cue.

Test regards,
WW


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Yeah, get Rube to edit the occasional space into his smiley barricade!

'Tis done. Just that annoying line of dots left between us and a normal width thread.


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Why would you want to call someone a jerk and not mean it?

Hang on a sec here, Jo - you're a Brit and a Liverpudlian and you're claiming not to understand irony? And also not to know the difference between being genuinely offensive and ribbing close friends?

Guaranteed that either you're on a major wind-up or you're not what you say you are in your profile. Which is it?


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Erratum: for adolescent read immature or child like (typified, for example, by the use of 'invisible writing')



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just turn the damn thread back
to a usable length and stop
pissing about scouse boy


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Erratum: for adolescent read immature or child like (typified, for example, by the use of 'invisible writing')

Here to serve. Jopo.
................................................................................................................


Well, this is really mature

Sun just come up over Chicago, faker?


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How could I resist such charm and eloquence and I was so pleased to see you did it without the use of even one smiley. Well done. Jopo.


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Aw, c'mon, Dr. Bill. Can't you give me just one little smiley emoticon to brighten up my day? Pretty please with sugar on it?

Have I stumbled on an unregistered dating agency? That red tongue looks a bit iffy Dr Bill.....steer clear.



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Your welcome :-) Hope you are still reading........ Jopo.


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Dear jopo: If you open your mouth to me, I'll put a throat stick in it.
Say Ah! Or would you call it a "tongue depressor"?


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Dear jopo: If you open your mouth to me, I'll put a throat stick in it.
Say Ah! Or would you call it a "tongue depressor"?

Your the doc. I would guess the correct term is dependent upon the proposed use. In either case sloppy ambiguity should be avoided.



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Q-less says: "Erratum: for adolescent read immature or child like (typified, for example, by the use of 'invisible writing')

Erratum - I see you don't speak *my language either.

immature or child like - Well, which one would you prefer? For good *reasons, they ain't mutually exclusive on this side of the pond.

BTW - Shouldn't "child like" be "child-like"?

...(typified, for example, by... - How many typifications does it take to destroy a stereotype?

...and finally (whew)...

invisible writing - My apologies. Twas only my last vision test which informed me that I have a "white-black deficiency".


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. In either case sloppy ambiguity should be avoided.

It *sounds like "Qls" is a chat room refugee.

"Ambiguity is in the ears of the beholder" - musick ® 2002


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Dear musick: Remember the trouble the auditors are in today.


#75521 07/12/2002 8:03 PM
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My basic assumption is most people aren't wretched and unworthy. There are a lot (a *LOT*) of people who consider themselves wretched and unworthy who are not. They are beating themselves up for (over) nothing. Too many people consider themselves miserable for indulging in victimless crimes.

Cheers,
Bryan

You are only wretched and unworthy if you choose to be.


Cheers,
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You are only wretched and unworthy if you choose to be.
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worked though didn't it?


#75523 07/13/2002 8:23 AM
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Saturday 13th July 2002 - Castilia.

Touché.

I am indeed honoured to have the magister musicae respond to my post, and on this occasion, it would be churlish of me to offer a riposte. I look forward to raising swords with you again.

With respect, Jopo.


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Dear Jopo: Castilia? There used to be a home-made soap called "Castile soap".
Can't remember reason for name, but deadliest threat from mothers was:
"I'll wash your mouth out with Castile soap!" (for profanity, etc.)


#75525 07/13/2002 1:12 PM
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Castile soap uses Olive oil for the fat in the soap.. an was first mmade in the Castile region of spain.

it is a very mild soft soap and often used washing babies.

but because it is so soft, it easily lathers, so it would be very 'soapy' in your mouth!


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I'm not much of a fan of novels, but just give me a chance to read a single chapter out of context and I'll show you a ...

http://www.pankrator.freeservers.com/darcages_book3_24.html

Hmmm! A world without walls? Hmmm...

Jopo - Now ya went and called me a magister and now I can't *legally use that nick anymore.

wwh - I still use Castile Soap... part of the *estate collections, dontcha know.


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- I still use Castile Soap
Shall I get you lathered up then, love?


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Hmmm! A world without walls? Hmmm...
I think I'd be all for that. Of course, then I wouldn't have anything to bang on. Hmmmm....



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Your the doc. I would guess the correct term is dependent upon the proposed use. In either case sloppy ambiguity should be avoided

Oh, dear, jopo! Sloppiness of all sorts should be avoided where possible - especially when complaining of it in others.



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