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wrote in message oups.com... Sorni wrote: wrote: SMS wrote: [...] (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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"NYC XYZ" wrote in message ups.com... 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. [...] 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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"Johnny Sunset" wrote in message oups.com... Tom Keats wrote: [...] 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 |
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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. |
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"NYC XYZ" wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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Edward Dolan wrote:
"The Wogster" wrote in message ... Edward Dolan wrote: [...] 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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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