Conference back40::soapbox

    
    Gene Haag, legenedary noter and hunter of pickups extrordinaire.
    
    Mark

        \nasser

Hatashita-san.

Jamie "Fat Git" Simpson.

    
    
    Mike Houston
    
    
    Steve Jong
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

Terrie,

You can't nominate yourself:-)

    
    Easty
    
    MMercier
    
    Esco  (I know, he doesn't really belong in the same note)
          

    Oithmum & Volvomum
    
    Zman
    
    (I know, he doesn't really belong in the same note either!)
    

    
    
    Boris the bear and Higgy.
    
    
    Hey Jack, jsut print the dparted list and get it over with.

    
    giudi and suzan
    
    
    

    Trace,  Jym,  W Davies,  ...

    What's this, a simple roll call of former boxers?

    YEAH!  Y'wanna make summat outtait???
    

    Scuze me but don't we already have a hall of fame of sorts?  We have a
    dearly departed note for former boxers in at least two incantations. 
    Do we really honestly need to be reminded yet again that there are
    boxers that are no longer with us?  
    
    Brian

    Past AND present, Brian!   And then, only the *best*!

    
    
    I nominate Brian McBride!   :^)
    

    i'll second it only because he's one of the few noters i actually
    know (what Brian, 15yrs?) and have met.
    
    he's alright...
    
    Chip

    Will we never be rid of this recurring suck-up string?
    
    Kit

    
    ...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmno.
    

    ....and to continue in the role of curmudgeon, howsabout we start a
    string defining all these arcane alphabetic mumblings that increasingly
    clutter up the box, such as:
    
    >     ...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmno.
      
    
    Perhaps we could call it "post-literate posturings".
    
    
    Kit

    pre-literate pesterings

    
    Good idea, Kit.  My first candidate will be "howsabout".
    

    
    Doctah, Kit and others (you to Brian) are you forgetting that this
    is Soapbox after all?? This conference isn't exactly made up of
    intelligent, witty, and omnipotent noters. :-) :-) :-) 
    
    Though, there are exceptions like Binder, and Covert, Kalikow etc.....
    
    IMHO
    
    Mark

    I vote Mr. Jack Barney Martin! In real life. He is purple with a tail! 

    
>>    Doctah, Kit and others (you to Brian) are you forgetting that this
>>    is Soapbox after all?? This conference isn't exactly made up of
>>    intelligent, witty, and omnipotent noters. :-) :-) :-) 

	The very people you're addressing are intelligent and
	witty, Mark.  "Omnipotent" - that's another story.
 

    
    Lady Di, somehow my wording was a little mixed up, hope you forgive
    me. At least be aware I didn't include myself in that respect, as we
    all know better.
    
    HTH
    
    Mark

edp

    stop sucking-up Mark :-)

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    RE: .6  Hey!!!  I did NOT nominate myself!  I just signed my 
    note, as I ALWAYS do!!!!!   :*)
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    >The Ty Cobb
    
    some would put him closer to the infamous black sox, but neither
    analogy is very defensible.  perhaps the lou gehrig for obstinate
    indefatiguability (is that the word I mean?  I think so).  when you
    come right down to it, that one is simply unique.
    
    DougO

    I will second Haag! With a store named "Haags Sheep and Crap Tack Shop" 
    That is a hard one to beat!:)

>>    indefatiguability (is that the word I mean?  I think so).  when you

	indefatigability.  if you're gonna have sesquipedal proclivities,
	might as well get it right.  ;>

    Gene, though an interesting character, was but a pale relection of some
    of some of the more high-profile denizens of the past.
    
    Kit

    
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    Uphill!!! Both ways!!!
    

    
    Kit, what is a relication?? Are you saying that Gene is a relic??
    Old ie.... :-) :-)
    
    Mark

    thank you, Di.  Spelling errors I can accept and correct.  More
    embarassing would have been if the meaning were incorrect, but
    you seem to have accepted what I was trying to get across ;-) so
    it must have been the right word.
    
    DougO

>>    it must have been the right word.
    
    yes indeed, douglas.  you couldn't have chosen a more appropriate
    word.  ;>

>    thank you, Di.  Spelling errors I can accept and correct.  More
>    embarassing would have been ...

misspelling "embarrassing."

>>misspelling "embarrassing."

	I said exactly the same thing to Easty one day and he sent me
	mail the next day saying that the OED listed it with one "r"
	as an alternate spelling.  I didn't verify that. ;>

    'r'e .1 and so fo'r'th
    
    Actually the identification symbol known to many as the humble 'r' has
    been given status well above it's minute office.  Legend has it that
    this humble alphabetic anomaly was added to fill out the twenty six
    stated entities in the phonetic alphabet, which as some of you
    undoubtably know was the exact digit count of the total appendages 
    located on the left hand of the Once and Famous King Otten.  Having
    one day inflicted additonal pain and toil on his loyal subjects, asked
    them what title they should bestow upon him.  One of the local peasants 
    who had been toiled and pained above and beyond his fellow clan said
    that a new alphabetic constenant should be added to the Famous Kings
    name.  To this day, he is noted as the official keepsake of the 
    entity "R".  And also to this day the famous King is now know as King
    Rotten!
    
    See...I only used the unmentionable entity in definition only...it
    plainly is not needed...so adding,deleting or modifiying sentences,
    nouns etc, to omit this annoying embelishment is quite acceptable.
    ....embarrrrassingerrrr...is fine!

    <---- what a strange person. Is there someone else up there we can talk
    to?!?

    I think this subject just left the rails, how about talking about some
    thing stupid,ireverent, and having no meaning at all," oh" I forgot I
    was in soapbox 
     

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 >   Kit, what is a relication?? Are you saying that Gene is a relic??
    
    It's a synonym for relection. Sigh. 
    
    I took typing one hot summer in high school -- never got to the top
    line, and was none too great on the lines I did study. Moreover, I
    never edit or proof-read in Soapbox, but just go with my first shot.
    Result -- a reasonable number of goofs.
    
    Kit

    
    But we DO have a `Hall Of Fame' note!
    

 Boy Howdy, we sure do!