steve auvache

In article <MPG.2122c85b30ce17ca98d4b8@news.individual.net> , Sena
<"\"#\""@cymoeddorguk.privacy.net> writes
>David Reid said...
>> ogden's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me the
>> following:
>> >
>> >
>> >Grand Duchess Fenny the Idle of Mabe Burnthouse wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Virgin are top for PAYG. You can PAYG by direct debit. No need for top
>> >> ups or credit that expires before you use it. You just make the call and
>> >> get a bill at the end of the month that is automagicall paid by DD. My
>> >> bills are usually in the region of 53p in a particularly heavy use month.
>> >
>> >Do you only ever _receive_ calls, or are you just talking complete
>> >rubbish?
>> >
>> Strange as it may seem, some of us manage to go whole days without using
>> our mobile phones! Even more surprisingly this does not result in our
>> heads exploding or us getting arrested for terrorist related activities!
>> After all, why would anyone not use their mobile phone other than to
>> avoid the prying eyes of the authorities? Eh? Eh?
>>
>I use mine mainly to ask the family if they want me to pick up fission
>ships on the way home, or as an alarm clock.

Just been there myself, interesting trip. Fella in there, Oirish
Traveller on his way home to the site after a hard day tarmacing.
Taller than Tallbloke and wider than Salad Dodger he ordered 5 bags of
chips, a couple of bits of fish, two battered sausages, other stuff and
"a couple of yer chicken breasts fer me to eat whoil Oi an waitin' if
you would please soir". 18 quid it came to in all and his mate turns to
him and says "Watcha doin wid all dem chips den?" "Oi am a bit
peckish," says the giant. I laughed.


--
steve auvache
A Bloo one with built in safety features

ogden

Austin Shackles wrote:
>
> On or around Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:44:07 +0100, ogden <ogden@pre.org>
> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >Badger wrote:
> >>
> >> Seems to be a shedii[1] affectation.
> >>
> >> [1] I probably mis-remembered this term, too.
> >
> >There's more than one shedius?
> >
> >God help us.
>
> indeed, the disorder of the sheddi are numerous and will come around and
> loom over you, creating a local gravitational anomaly in the process, iff'n
> yer not pnershy.

*whoosh*

--
ogden
sv650 - surprisingly quick for a girl's bike

Andy Burns

On 07/08/2007 17:10, David Reid wrote:

> Andy Burns's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me the
> following:
>
>> If they turned on SMS delivery reports they'd know when you[r phone]
>> got it.
>
> And, depending on their contract and useage, end up paying twice as much
> for their texts.

Yes I notice orinj have started charging 0.01zu per delivery report.

--
.... - . -. -.. . -.-.

doetnietcomputeren

Simian wrote:

>>>> Personally, I rather like their eccentric patois.
>>> It's all a bit "I'm mad, me" for my liking.
>> Which begs the question why you waste any time reading it
>
>
> ...and that phrase dies a little more at the hands of the ill educated.

eh wot?

--
Dnc

Gid

In article <46B8C146.F9C3D868@pre.org>, ogden generously decided to
share with us..

Snippetry..

> *whoosh*

And lo, as ogden did a deep thorkus it hit him like a smackeroblurdy
which came out as no-one ever thorkus before.. what is this strange
appearold of the sheddli light.. the nutly falleth in the wold as it
were and then wrappit with only the finest crinkliest chocoladen out
the wold.. in it one hand and then out the other like a thunderbold and
all whom saw it flaketh..

So, unforget the magic wordy everybold:

ogden's nut gone flake!

And I hope you all have a lovely turn-out..

--
Gid

Current Project: Bragdy'r Ddraenen Wen
(if it ever stops raining for long enough)

Gid

In article <f9b6nb$nng$1@registered.motzarella.org>, doetnietcomputeren
generously decided to share with us..

> Simian wrote:
>
> >>>> Personally, I rather like their eccentric patois.
> >>> It's all a bit "I'm mad, me" for my liking.
> >> Which begs the question why you waste any time reading it
> >
> >
> > ...and that phrase dies a little more at the hands of the ill educated.
>
> eh wot?

I suspect he's on about "begging the question", which does not mean
what the user of the phrase meant..

--
Gid

Current Project: Bragdy'r Ddraenen Wen
(if it ever stops raining for long enough)

doetnietcomputeren

Gid wrote:

>>>>>> Personally, I rather like their eccentric patois.
>>>>> It's all a bit "I'm mad, me" for my liking.

>>>> Which begs the question why you waste any time reading it
>>>
>>> ...and that phrase dies a little more at the hands of the ill educated.
>> eh wot?
>
> I suspect he's on about "begging the question", which does not mean
> what the user of the phrase meant..

Except, I was the user of the phrase, and I used it in a manner that I
though correct - generating a circular argument by asking a question
that needed no answer - although that bit has been snipped.

I'm happy to be corrected when Simian wakes up though.

--
Dnc

Richard Bos

David Reid <david@disarray.org.uk> wrote:

> Andy Burns's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me the
> following:
> >On 05/08/2007 18:05, Cerumen wrote:
> >
> >> I find it extremely annoying that people assume because a text has
> >>been sent I have received it
> >
> >If they turned on SMS delivery reports they'd know when you[r phone] got it.
>
> And, depending on their contract and useage, end up paying twice as much
> for their texts.

That's their problem, not mine. _They_ want to be able to assume that
I've received their SMSes; _they_ can take the trouble for it. I'm not
required to be a slave to my mobile terrorist.

Richard

marina

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:06:16 GMT, rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard
Bos) wrote:

>vulgarandmischevious <vulgarandmischevious@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:56:58 +0100 Countess-Palatine Blackberry the
>> Perplexed of Divine Intervention. wrote:
>>
>> >On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:48:31 +0100, ogden <ogden@pre.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>As for the one who insists on ROT13ing the word 'work', I almost
>> >>despair.
>> >
>> >That would be most of us. If you don't want to read our postings which
>> >are in accordance with the remit of uk.rec.sheds, just cut the
>> >crossposting.
>>
>> or - and here's a radical thought - you could.
>
>There's a problem with that. Or two.
>
>- We're not the ones who started the crossposting;
>- we're not small-brained enough to get offended when someone ROTs a
> word.
>
>You are. Draw your own conclusion.

'Twas I that started the cross posting by putting my question to both
of the main groups I read. If that offends, sorry. The reason was I'm
lazy. If _that_ offends, yah boo sucks.

--
Marina Mayes - Reading, UK. To email me remove XX from my address
SR250 - gone. BOTAFOT12, BOD#2, BOTAFOS#2
KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3
I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation.
"You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03

Jérémy

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.<x{yz}
enophil44@hotmail.com> wrote in news:s5oeb3lrghqmj70g0enm5dee9lu2rmpbc8@
4ax.com:

> If you don't want to read our postings which
> are in accordance with the remit of uk.rec.sheds, just cut the
> crossposting.

Is the "xenophil" bit of your email address supposed to be ironic?

--
Jeremy

Richard Robinson

Gid said:
>
> And lo, as ogden did a deep thorkus it hit him like a smackeroblurdy
> which came out as no-one ever thorkus before.. what is this strange
> appearold of the sheddli light.. the nutly falleth in the wold as it
> were and then wrappit with only the finest crinkliest chocoladen out
> the wold.. in it one hand and then out the other like a thunderbold and
> all whom saw it flaketh..

I saw a cd-reissue copy of that, a while back. It comes in what looked very
much like a Proper Tin.


--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:33:23 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
<vulgarandmischevious@gmail.com> wrote:

>vulgarandmischevious

Well named.
--
e-mail me at geraldine(underlined space)ms(littlesnailything) bigfoot dot com
only without the spaces

Lister

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:10:44 -0700, doetnietcomputeren
<doesnotcompute@gmail.com> wrote:

>Except, I was the user of the phrase, and I used it in a manner that I
>though correct - generating a circular argument by asking a question
>that needed no answer - although that bit has been snipped.
>

Rhetorical question?

>I'm happy to be corrected when Simian wakes up though.

Sn!pe

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.
<x{yz}enophil44@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:33:23 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
> <vulgarandmischevious@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >vulgarandmischevious
>
> Well named.

If ill-spelt.

--
^Ï^ <snipe@notforspam.fsnet.co.uk> (unmunged, use as is)

Des

Lister <fache@spamclara.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:10:44 -0700, doetnietcomputeren
> <doesnotcompute@gmail.com> wrote:

>>Except, I was the user of the phrase, and I used it in a manner that I
>>though correct - generating a circular argument by asking a question that
>>needed no answer - although that bit has been snipped.

> Rhetorical question?

No, that's not what 'begging the question' means. It means either
'inciting' an obvious question, or else to assume that a particular
argument has been 'settled', even when it has not in fact been settled.

D.

--
des | 'trop d'la balle, j'kiffe grave!'
BMW K100-LT

Des

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention. <x{yz}enophil44@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:33:23 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
> <vulgarandmischevious@gmail.com> wrote:

>>vulgarandmischevious

> Well named.

He's also known as 'David Duke', after his vicious anti-Semitic rants took
the entire readership of UKRM by surprise ..

D.
--
des | 'trop d'la balle, j'kiffe grave!'
BMW K100-LT

dog

Austin Shackles wrote:
> >As for the one who insists on ROT13ing the word 'work', I almost
> >despair.
>
> what, you don't think jbex is a dirty word? shame on you.

it depends on the context. obvious having to go to jbex is pretty filthy,
but what about when you know your plan won't work?
--
dog
sl1000 two#5

Andy Burns

On 08/08/2007 10:48, dog wrote:

> it depends on the context. obvious having to go to jbex is pretty filthy,
> but what about when you know your plan won't work?

We'd ROT that TAAW just to be on the safe side.

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.

On 08 Aug 2007 09:48:39 GMT, dog <dog@dev.null> wrote:
>Austin Shackles wrote:
>> >As for the one who insists on ROT13ing the word 'work', I almost
>> >despair.
>>
>> what, you don't think jbex is a dirty word? shame on you.
>
>it depends on the context. obvious having to go to jbex is pretty filthy,
>but what about when you know your plan won't work?

Best be on the safe side. We don't want to frighten any elderly sheddi.

--
e-mail me at geraldine(underlined space)ms(littlesnailything) bigfoot dot com
only without the spaces

vulgarandmischevious

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:32:19 +0100 Sn!pe wrote:

>Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.
><x{yz}enophil44@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:33:23 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
>> <vulgarandmischevious@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >vulgarandmischevious
>>
>> Well named.
>
>If ill-spelt.

It's an "in-joke".


--
vulgarandmischevious

Austin Shackles

On or around Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:23:58 +0100, Sena
<"\"#\""@cymoeddorguk.privacy.net> enlightened us thusly:

>Austin Shackles said...
>> >I have delivery reports enabled on my phobile so I know when a text has
>> >been received (not iffn it's been read thobut).
>>
>> doesn't work (the same way) on all netjbexf, but. On Orange, you could
>> prefix the message with "RCT " and get a delivery report,
>>
>But when you tried that with me, all I got was a strange message
>preceded by 'rct' and I had to phone you to ask what on earth Rhondda
>Cynon Taff had to do with anything.

quite. on O2 you put something else, and on other networks something
else-else or they don't do it.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Travel The Galaxy! Meet Fascinating Life Forms...
------------------------------------------------\
>> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ << \ ...and Kill them.
a webcartoon by Howard Tayler; I like it, maybe you will too!

Andy Burns

On 08/08/2007 13:41, Austin Shackles wrote:

> On or around Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:23:58 +0100, Sena
> <"\"#\""@cymoeddorguk.privacy.net> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> But when you tried that with me, all I got was a strange message
>> preceded by 'rct' and I had to phone you to ask what on earth Rhondda
>> Cynon Taff had to do with anything.
>
> quite. on O2 you put something else, and on other networks something
> else-else or they don't do it.

How many phobiles /don't/ offer to do it for themselves nowadays? I
think my 1st iSmenes one didn't and a nazi oMotoral one, but all my
oNiksa did, and all my oSyns.

Cerumen

"Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention."
<x{yz}enophil44@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:v45jb314rrerh7gvpt1gtu4us0nv5ll471@4ax.com...
> On 08 Aug 2007 09:48:39 GMT, dog <dog@dev.null> wrote:
>>Austin Shackles wrote:
>>> >As for the one who insists on ROT13ing the word 'work', I almost
>>> >despair.
>>>
>>> what, you don't think jbex is a dirty word? shame on you.
>>
>>it depends on the context. obvious having to go to jbex is pretty filthy,
>>but what about when you know your plan won't work?
>
> Best be on the safe side. We don't want to frighten any elderly sheddi.
>
Pardon? Someone called?


--
Chris, West Cork, Ireland.
Festina lente

Austin Shackles

On or around Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:51:30 +0100, Andy Burns
<usenet.july2007@adslpipe.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>On 08/08/2007 13:41, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>> On or around Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:23:58 +0100, Sena
>> <"\"#\""@cymoeddorguk.privacy.net> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>> But when you tried that with me, all I got was a strange message
>>> preceded by 'rct' and I had to phone you to ask what on earth Rhondda
>>> Cynon Taff had to do with anything.
>>
>> quite. on O2 you put something else, and on other networks something
>> else-else or they don't do it.
>
>How many phobiles /don't/ offer to do it for themselves nowadays? I
>think my 1st iSmenes one didn't and a nazi oMotoral one, but all my
>oNiksa did, and all my oSyns.

I think quite a few do, but it's a network-dependent function so that it's
not necessarily enabled on every phone of type X
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Travel The Galaxy! Meet Fascinating Life Forms...
------------------------------------------------\
>> http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ << \ ...and Kill them.
a webcartoon by Howard Tayler; I like it, maybe you will too!

Andy Burns

On 08/08/2007 14:25, Austin Shackles wrote:

> I think quite a few do, but it's a network-dependent function so that it's
> not necessarily enabled on every phone of type X

I goove there is an standard[0] way of requesting delivery reports for
all phobiles, the "RCT " prefixes are just an alternative method for
humans to hfr if their phobile dozen do it, or they don't xabj how to
operate its menus.

[0] Prolly in ETSI GSM 07.05 BICBA to dig about in them, I goove they're
freely available now.

Richard Robinson

["Followup-To:" header set to uk.rec.sheds.]
Cerumen said:
> "Austin Shackles" <austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS@ddol-las.net> wrote in
>>
>> now, that's a way to really annoy the sheddi. we might indulge in a
>> miscellany of odd spelling and circumlocution, but we never find it
>> necessary to resort to gratuitous crudity.
>>
> It is probably the only language he feels at home with poor thing.

We're at home (or not) with our language(s), bikes are presumably equally so
with theirs. That's the thing about crossposts, is that they require
enjoyment, or at least tolerance, of each others' quaint local customs.

Or <insert more repetitions of the lbeedign obvious advice>

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Grimly Curmudgeon

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember dog <dog@dev.null> saying something
like:

>> what, you don't think jbex is a dirty word? shame on you.
>
>it depends on the context. obvious having to go to jbex is pretty filthy,
>but what about when you know your plan won't work?

Alas, plans for World Domination seldom jbex so it become necessary to
earn a living from time to time.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.