Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:18:53 -0330
Reply-To: Bob Norman <B.Norman@THEZONE.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bob Norman <B.Norman@THEZONE.NET>
Subject: Re: (Funny) New Email List:
MomsDaughterGunsPallbearerjurorsandVanagons@beatingdeadhorses.org
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Robyn Rudisill wrote:
>
> That's right folks!
>
> MomsDaughterGunsPallbearersjurorsandVanagons@beatingthedeadhorses.not
> is now accepting supplications for charter members. Please limit messages
> to topics within the charter (see bylaws page 65,791 paragraph 9045 line
> 325). Failure to do so will result in your email being deleted with
> reckless abandon and without regard for personal safety.
>
> Threads about illegal stun guns in New York City will N*O*T be accepted
> unless it's Thursday, Cloudy in Omaha, and there are less than three cups
> of coffee left in Rob's coffee pot; or sender has obtained digital
> signatures from, no less than, 14 elders (applications for elders now being
> accepted).
>
> Sign up now, avoid the Friday rush.
>
> Hint? Me? Never.
>
> administrator, Free the Stun Guns of New York Liberation Movement! (FSGYLM)
> Watch for our Initial Public Offering on SpreeTrade next month.
>
> Robyn "when in doubt, go public!" Rudisill
>
> Charter member: Squirrels First, Earth Second!
>
> oh, and vanagon owner.
This was posted to a Jaguar list that I'm on, seems to be relevent to
this thread, and to discussions from the "Flame Wars" earlier this year.
Happy Easter everyone, I'm outa here for four days!
Bob
----
Internet Light Bulb
Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a
light bulb?
A: 1,343
1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light
bulb has been changed;
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the
light bulb could have been changed differently;
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs;
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
bulbs;
53 to flame the spell checkers;
41 to correct spelling/grammar flames;
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb";
another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive;
156 to write to the list administrator about the light bulb discussion
and its inappropriateness to this mail list;
109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take
this email exchange to litebulb@light-buld.users.org
203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and
illuminati-l about changing light bulbs be stopped;
111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light
bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list;
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to
buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this
technique and what brands are faulty;
27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs;
14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and post the corrected
URL's;
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to
this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list;
33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and
footers and then add "Me too";
12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot
handle the light bulb controversy;
19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three";
4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ;
44 to ask what is "FAQ";
4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago on Usenet?"
143 to ask "what's Usenet?"
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Bob Norman
'81 Westy
Gander, Newfoundland
Canada
Everyone thinks I'm psychotic, except for my friends deep inside of the
earth.
