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#47287 11/09/01 09:28 PM
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moss, I seem to have been strewn on the wrong side of the tree here. although I am one who left the thread that is under discussion, it was mostly because of the length. the inbreeding I don't recall being mentioned. that thread reminded me of a song my daughter used to sing, to great effect when she wanted to annoy:

this is the song that never ends,
it just goes on and on, my friends.
some people started singing it
not knowing what it was
and they’ll continue singing it forever just because,
this is the song that never ends....


<repeat... and repeat... and...>

imagine how pleased I was to get the chance to post this somewhere.



#47288 11/09/01 09:37 PM
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imagine how pleased I was to get the chance to post this somewhere
I know just the place where you can post it. It seems fitting that you should have the last word.







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I suspect that tsuwm has his set at 100 since he complained about the Omegatist thread going to page two. Or was it 50 because he complained about its going past page two? He may find it beneficial to cut that number down a little.

I do have it set to 100, as a result of the board bug that we discovered in referencing old threads (the one where you can only see the first page and then you get shunted off to some current thread?); at the time we were seeing that someone found the workaround of setting the page length to something greather than 20. 100 works well with the guideline of keeping threads under 100 posts. so it's a tradeoff, I guess.



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I sincerely apologize for adding to a length that I wasn't aware of. It's apparent that the culture of this board doesn't tolerate excessively long robes. I will mend my ways...and wear new threads.

WW


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For what it's worth, I have my one-page display set to 99, at mav's suggestion. I just went to an old thread that had 101 posts, and it didn't come unraveled--I got page two just fine. Flat mode rules!


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Hem.. Everyone seems ta be a bit shirty and somewhat needled over this thread issue. Let Ted cast the hole thing off and declare it all sewed up.


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With Bolero blaring in the background!



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Ted, you are so busted.This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

corkieie@yahoo.co.uk

Not to mention the fact that the last 2 posts by GallantTed were closely followed by You!
EDITED when I saw that I had misread the time between Ted posts

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Dear Consuelo,

GallantTed here - the one and only. I yam shocking that ya think otherwise. And what are ya doen posten me email address all over the show? Is that SUE in yer name of any significance? Blantant libel is too good a word fer it.

I assure ya that I yam the genwine article. Check out me Forem if ya don't believe @ http://www.gamblingcommunity.com - it's the GallantTed ChronicAils in the Community Forem section. Let's see ya square up ta me in me natural habitat.

Yours sincerely

THE GallentTed

PS - Leave the other TEd alone. I've got frends in the woods, ya know.


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this is the song that never ends,
it just goes on and on, my friends.


Does this have anything to do with a cat, white carpet, and some gooey chicken dish?

On another subject, Faldage (I think it was) stated that some folks know what Taliban means. I know what it means, but am unsure if the "an" ending implies an article. I've noted of late that, at least in the US, people form double articles, i.e. "the el nino," or "the al kaida," and so forth. Is this kind of ignorance endemic to the US, or pandemic?

Geoff the ignorant student


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