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Sorni wrote:
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SMS wrote:
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(Anyone else getting lots of multiple posts lately?!?)

What it looks like from this end is: Click "Post message"; long, long
wait; error message from Google saying something like "Sorry, there
was a server problem" or such; click "Post message again"; and
(eventually) two posts appear.

It is OK to sign your name. Just go with Frank K. as I know it is a lot of
work to plow through all those consonants in your last name.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

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Edward Dolan wrote:


Yes, that is what I am here for, to advise all you dunderheads in cyber
space on elementary good manners. If you would only emulate me, you could
go
to the head of the class and get a good mark on your report card.

'NYC XYZ' tells us where you are from, but is it hardly a proper name.
You
will always be regarded as a ghost until you take on a name. Letters are
not
names. Elementary, my dear Watson!
[...]

Hmm...I think I'll just sign myself on as Edward Dolan from now on.

No, I can do that but you can't. If you did it it would be plagiarism and
forgery. You could go to jail for it.

When you have aged properly and grown in wisdom and virtue, you will
realize
that Keillor is indeed the world's biggest bore and that Rush Limbaugh is
a
great entertainer, no matter what you might think of his politics. It all
has to do with maturity. Good luck to you as I believe you do show some
promise. But you will first have to get cured of your liberalism, a
congenital disease of all New Yorkers, especially those from the City.
[...]

You obviously got it backwards. bush limhog is right on some things
politically, but as funny as a banana peel next to a caution sign.

Well, he does drone on and on too much, but when he gets fired up he is
quite entertaining.

Love Keillor's show this past weekend, where he talked about intolerant
liberals, the kind who hug trees and blacks and hispanics but won't
talk to you if you mispell.

Keillor is OK in small doses, but he is poisonous if taken in large doses.

[I am overlooking your misspelling of "misspell'. Also, 'hispanics' should
be 'Hispanics', but I won't mention it if you won't.]
[...]

But more importantly I can come at various miscreants on Usenet from two
directions, an assumed superiority of Greatness and an assumed
superiority
of Holiness. If others want to come across as low life's, they will have
me
to contend with.

I never understood math professors who've never heard of the unit of
measurement called "gross," nor English-speakers who mistake plural and
possessive.

'lifes' just doesn't look right whereas 'life's' does. Just goes to show how
misleading looks can be.
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Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

You need to try that out in alt.christnet.christianlife!

It is no fun to preach to the choir. My ministrations are needed on cycling
groups, otherwise grossness takes over and there is one left but a bunch of
slobs and lowlifes. I should really be getting paid for my services to the
hoi polloi.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

PS. Get a name why don't you?

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Tom Keats wrote:
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Y'know, I actually have much admiration for folks who design & build
their own 'bents. They're a creative and constructive lot. And
they're a bunch of nice, intelligent people, like Tom Sherman.
They have my respect....

Thanks for the compliment, but to clarify I have not built any bicycle,
due to my "Red Green" level skills.

I have not yet decided whether Tom Keats is an idiot or not. Stay tuned, but
in the meantime do not be too complimented. You must always consider the
source.

Here is a site that shows that Ed Dolan of Worthington is (hopefully)
the exception for Minnesotans:
http://mnhpva.org/MNbikes/builders.html.

I briefly met some of these guys once and they are great at what they do,
but they do not do what the Great Ed Dolan does. They are fish and I am
foul. I mean, there is just no comparison at all!

I wonder whatever happened to Mark Stonich. He used to post on ARBR, but he
has been gone for over a year now at least. No doubt he got fed up with us
being off topic so much. I don't think he ever got off topic the least
little bit ever. Very unlike me that way!

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Edward Dolan wrote:


No, I can do that but you can't. If you did it it would be plagiarism and
forgery. You could go to jail for it.

Why, are you also copyrighted by microsoft?

Well, he does drone on and on too much, but when he gets fired up he is
quite entertaining.

How's it entertaining when you know exactly what he's going to say?
This guy can't tell a joke even if they had to go back and edit the
tape!

Keillor is OK in small doses, but he is poisonous if taken in large doses.

Well, it's only once a week, and most of the time it's music and "Guy
Noir."

Not much of "The Life of the Cowboys" lately, though messages from "The
Association of English Majors" are always entertaining.

[I am overlooking your misspelling of "misspell'.

What, you forgot to take your irony supplements today?

Also, 'hispanics' should
be 'Hispanics', but I won't mention it if you won't.]
[...]

It's just an adjective to me, however riled they want to get over it.

'lifes' just doesn't look right whereas 'life's' does. Just goes to show how
misleading looks can be.
[...]

Yeah, when in doubt, go for the obviously wrong choice!

It is no fun to preach to the choir.

That'd be alt.rec.ed.dolan.misc.general.

My ministrations are needed on cycling
groups, otherwise grossness takes over and there is one left but a bunch of
slobs and lowlifes. I should really be getting paid for my services to the
hoi polloi.

Yes, I'll have that bentrideronline petition started...soon as they
reply.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Does the Governor know about you?

PS. Get a name why don't you?

Not necessary; I answer to "hey there" as well.

"NYC XYZ" wrote in message
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Edward Dolan wrote:


No, I can do that [use my name] but you can't. If you did it it would be
plagiarism and
forgery. You could go to jail for it.

Why, are you also copyrighted by microsoft?

It is a question of ethics, but decorum is even more important. In fact,
when you get to be my age you will realize that appearances are everything.
Who knows or cares what anyone is really like? Even married couples are
strangers to one another. Truth to tell, I do not even think my cats
understand me. They look at me very cross much of the time even though I
dote on them. Why is that I wonder!

Well, he [Rush Limbaugh] does drone on and on too much, but when he gets
fired up he is
quite entertaining.

How's it entertaining when you know exactly what he's going to say?
This guy can't tell a joke even if they had to go back and edit the
tape!

No, when he gets fired up he will say really outrageous things that no one
else would dare say. That in my book is entertainment!

Keillor is OK in small doses, but he is poisonous if taken in large
doses.

Well, it's only once a week, and most of the time it's music and "Guy
Noir."

Not much of "The Life of the Cowboys" lately, though messages from "The
Association of English Majors" are always entertaining.

It is somewhat interesting to me that someone living in NYC would find
Keillor at all entertaining. His humor is quite countrified, even folk like.
He is far removed from the canyons of NYC.
[...]

It is no fun to preach to the choir.

That'd be alt.rec.ed.dolan.misc.general.

But that would quickly reduce to being nothing but a blog as I can't imagine
anyone coming to visit me when I all I would ever do is tell them about all
their shortcomings, like I am doing with you.
[...]

PS. Get a name why don't you?

Not necessary; I answer to "hey there" as well.

OK, so be just another ghost on Usenet. Who cares? I guess maybe if my name
were Jack I would not want anyone one to know about it either. Who ever
heard of King Jack? On the other hand, King Edward is well known. Yes, it is
nice to a have a name you can be proud of and wear with distinction.

I wonder if I shouldn't drop the Ed in my signature in favor of Edward? I
mean, it is just such a Great Name! However, there are still some few souls
on Usenet who do not think I am such a bad fellow and Ed is more familiar
than Edward. Less off-putting you know, even though I do regard myself as
worthy of being placed along side all those King Edwards. I really should be
addressed as Your Highness or Your Majesty accompanied by much bowing and
scraping. I have never for the life of me been able to figure out what I am
doing living in the 21st century when I am clearly a man of the 18th century
and of a royal personage no less. No "hey there" for me!

More importantly, one liners will not cut it here in the long run. Try to
enlarge on your thoughts. Most particularly, try to avoid just one sentence
per paragraph. This marks you as a quipper (is this a word - one who makes
quips), but not necessarily a wit. Most of us should never strive for wit.
It is clearly beyond us as it requires a very high order of intelligence.
Even I, the Great Ed Dolan, am not capable of wit. Alas, I can only do low
grades of parody.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Edward Dolan wrote:
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Edward Dolan wrote:

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The fact that the world does not go bonkers over Canada like it does the
US is because Canada's status in the world is on the order of Costa Rica.
If and when Canada ever becomes a super power, all that will change in a
trice. France will then be as delighted to stab Canada in the back as it
was to do it to the US. France thinks it has been robbed of its rightful
place in history. They never got over the glories of Napoleon.

Actually Canada is respected by much of the world, it has it's deficit
under control (unlike the United States). Our dollar is doing quite well,
and we have something like 90% of the untapped oil supply left in North
America. I suspect the days of the super-powers are over, it's
consortiums that are taking over, like the European Union. The United
States will become a has-been in the next 50 years, when the oil supply
starts drying up, and it will not be able to borrow enough money to defend
the middle East against the Billion man army known as China. The United
States will then join the Americas Union, which will consist of Canada,
United States, Mexico, Guatamala, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic,
Barbados, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuala, Columbia, Brazil,
Peru, Bolivia (I know some people there), Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
It will be one big free trade zone, with a common currency, just like most
of Europe is. Unlike NAFTA, the United States will not be able to write
this trade agreement.


Costa Rica has the respect of the world too, even if not regarded as much of
a power. Canada does not have a great deficit like the US because it does
not pull its weight in the world like the US does. The Canadian military is
next to nothing. Canada is secure because of the US. The same could be said
for Europe too. The only bulwark in the world (thanks to President Bush) for
Western Civilization is the US. The very least Canada could do is show some
support for US policy if it does not want to undertake any of the burden
itself.

Well, we don't really need a big military, who would we war with,
everyone likes us, sure there has been the occassional terrorist, but
domestically there hasn't been war since, well 1812, when we kicked
America's ass. A little peace keeping here and there, and sending the
occassional ship fishing illegally in our waters packing, doesn't take a
big military force. The whole issue of without the big US military
protecting the free world, that it would suddenly collapse, is just so
much male bovine manure. The United States needs a big military, to
secure it's oil supply, and that is why it's taking control of then
worlds second largest current supplier.

Really the United States needs to lighten up, it's way to uptight, and
that big military is in charge of the winding key.


As for the rest of your thinking, who knows what the future holds. It may be
that the Muslim terrorists will manage to get their hands on a nuclear
weapon (via Iran) and blow Toronto to kingdom come. What then?
[...]

Why would they? That's the big question, why would you attack nice guy
Canada? You would have the entire world, including a good bunch of the
countries you want as friends, ready to rip you apart. The United
States would be a much better target for that bomb, if you had to pick a
country people love to hate, it would be the United States. And that is
why it was the World Trade Center rather then the Toronto Dominion
Centre that was attacked.

Actually, the CBC does two things very well. They continue the tradition
of radio drama, and they service areas, that would not otherwise be
servicable due to lack of population. The problem with US news, and I
have seen some of it, is that they always take a US stand on international
issues. Which brings me to another issue, I have with US media, how come
the media is so obsessed by politics and political issues, when the
majority of citizens don't even care enough to vote?


Those who do not vote are in effect also voting. They have indicated by not
voting that they are content to let those who do vote run the ship of state.
As a matter of fact, I absolutely do not want anyone voting who does not
take an interest in civic affairs. Our American democracy is as strong and
healthy as it has ever been.

If you don't vote, you deserve the government you get stuck with.
However that doesn't answer the question, why is the US media so
absorbed with politics, and boring politics as well. What the United
States needs, is a good joke like the old Canadian Rhinoceros party (now
defunct), maybe a good toke would be better, you can have the Marajuana
party :-)[1]

Actually you want a real joke, take the NDP, puhlease take the NDP, you
can even have Smilin' Jack (think Herb Tarlek from WKRP, with a huge
smile ) their much feared leader, if this guy becomes prime minister,
I'm moving to a third world country, and declaring refugee status.

W

[1] Please let it be known, that I have never smoked Marajuana, nor do I
encourage anyone else to.

NYC XYZ wrote:
Edward Dolan wrote:


Yes, it is mainly young teenage farm girls who are into horse riding. They
especially like to do their thing at county fairs.

Oh, I thought it was mainly middle-aged dads who find something
irrresistible about a young girl riding a big horse....

I would much rather draft a young woman on an upright bicycle
(especially a TT or Tri bike) than one on a horse for TWO obvious
reasons.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

NYC XYZ wrote:
Edward Dolan wrote:


No, I can do that but you can't. If you did it it would be plagiarism and
forgery. You could go to jail for it.

Why, are you also copyrighted by microsoft?

That's "micro$oft" dude!

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Edward Dolan wrote:
...
As for the rest of your thinking, who knows what the future holds. It may be
that the Muslim terrorists will manage to get their hands on a nuclear
weapon (via Iran) and blow Toronto to kingdom come. What then?...

Not too many people would miss Toronto, Iowa.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley

Edward Dolan wrote:
...
I do not believe Tom Sherman ever built a bike in his life. He is into
pricey recumbents that he buys from manufacturers in the Twin Cities, at
which point they promptly go out of business....

Actually, I adopted Red Sunset, Blue Dragonflyer and Purple Sunset
after Earth Cycles went out of business. None were purchased directly
from Earth Cycles [1].

[1] I was planning on ordering a Sunset after I finished grade school,
er graduate school, but Earth Cycles was effectively defunct by that
time.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley