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Article #411Re: A little off-topic help.
From: David Knell
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
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"Clive 9ai26" <9ai26@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >get a life Crushing. The ultimate put-down. It's great to see that the art of the construction of the short, witty, original riposte is still alive and flourishing. But the real message is concealed from the casual reader. After I'd scraped myself off the floor, I noticed that your follow-up was added *before* the quoted text. And even included Peter's signature. I couldn't believe it! This brilliant, daring work implicitly raises the finger to *all* of the crumbly old regulars in uk.telecom by showing that the poster is not only smashing the conventions of English grammar, but is also using Microsoft Outlook Express! Fantastic! At this moment, even Murray Walker would be searching in his coat pocket fluff for superlatives.. I'm simply lost for words. Etc. Dave >Peter G. Strangman wrote in message <3547b5a2.57139246@news.demon.co.uk>... >>A number of people seem to get confused with: >>"hear", "here", "there" and "their".
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10db0e,5af93775e9ed2d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0e,public X-Google-Thread: 114575,5af93775e9ed2d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid114575,public X-Google-Thread: f76f2,5af93775e9ed2d0d X-Google-Attributes: gidf76f2,public From: dave@dave-ltd.co.uk.NOSPAM (David Knell) Subject: Re: A little off-topic help. Date: 1998/04/14 Message-ID: <6h0qih$r8e$1@alpha.ftech.net> X-Deja-AN: 344108216 References: <3547b5a2.57139246@news.demon.co.uk> <6h0j4m$j13$1@plug.news.pipex.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 1998 23:13:21 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@ftech.net X-Trace: alpha.ftech.net 892595601 27918 195.200.10.149 (14 Apr 1998 23:13:21 GMT) Organization: Frontier Internet Services Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,uk.telecom,demon.homepages.authoring