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Re: ATTN:Rob, Aria

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From: Grimly Fiendish
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 21:26
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"Mike" <du@b> wrote in message
news:ovqd1vg34j32c2ibje0olkvcvjqm2n5a3a@news.clara.net...
> Jocyber, wrote...
>
> >Tim... <news_replies_only@hotmail.com> wrote
>
> >> Quite simply, I do not have to justify nor explain my actions to you.
> >
> >This is, quite simply, true.
> >
> >Didn't stop you though.
>
> Oooh cheeky.. I could just come round there and...
>
> Anyway, back to the k/f thing...
>
> One bit I've never quite understood, is the urge and subsequent
> act of actually issuing [1] a *plonk*. Why not just carry out
> said action and leave it at that? I mean, if I knew I'd been
> plonked by someone, I might go around calling them names and all
> manner of childish insults behind their back. But if they did it
> quietly, I might be more careful.
>
> [1] Suppose it's a bit leik announcing one's usenet leaving do,
> again, and again, and...
> --
> Mike

I do it just to make the person aware i can't see and have no interest in
thier comments, in the same way i'd tell someone in person i wasn't
listening or interested in what they had to say rather than put my hands
over my ears and walk off without a word, which most would consider rude and
childish and would probably be more likely to earn you a smack in the head.
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From: "Grimly Fiendish" <Alien@Sexfiend.fsnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.comp.vendors,freeserve.discuss
Subject: Re: ATTN:Rob, Aria
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:26:04 -0000
Organization: Don't Swear At Me !!
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