Conference back40::soapbox

    Superstition:  grammatical hash in a basenote will always result in
    doo-gooders' corrections.
    
    I will refrain from making the obvious correction, as I am known to be
    the antithesis of a do-gooder.

Never stand under a politician!  :o

    
    	Alright, Binder ... did you find 2 errors in the base note?
    

    I don't think I have any...my grandmother was the superstition
    encyclopedia, though...
    
    		probably the most ridiculous one was if she dropped
    something with a point, somebody else had to pick it up. Usually, this
    involved silverware; if she dropped a spoon or butterknife, it was OK
    for her to pick up. If she dropped a fork or steak knife, though, she
    would kick it under the table until somebody came along to visit and
    then they had to go get it.
    
    				lunchbox

         Hey, SLABOUNTY, I've noticed that whatever conference or topic I
    go into, there you are. I've only had this account for three or four
    weeks, and I'm already sick of this decnet. Don't you ever get tired of
    noting? 

    >> Hey, SLABOUNTY, I've noticed that whatever conference or topic
    >> I go into, there you are.
    
    Shawn is the dude who invented the timeless phrase:
    
    "No matter where you go, I've been there", and
    "No matter where you go, there you are!".
    
    Aren't you glad you asked?

         There's actually someone else from BSS out there? Are you at CXO2?
    

    > Are you at CXO2?
    
    nope. guess again.

    .5
    
    > ...and I'm already sick of this decnet.
    
    DECnet has been replaced by OSI.  Shawn is still the same product.

    But Barry,
    
    OSI is DECnet, oh also TCPIP, the model for novelle/IPX and
    goddess only knows what else, maybe even Vines?
    
    meg

    
    	Hey, Ed Sam, I've only been seeing your notes for 3 or 4 weeks
    	and I'm already sick of YOUR noting.
    

    
      Now it HAS been 3-4 weeks of E_WALKER, and I'm still patiently
     waiting for the first note or reply from that source that isn't
     content-free.  Everybody else in here actually tries to say
     something, at least part of the time.  This guy ought to try it.
    
      bb

    Wow, what a lingusitic masterpiece .0 is.  I will go out and slit my
    wrists at my earliest possible convenience providing the grammar gods
    don't smite me first.  

    
    Brian,
    
     Watchoo gotta learn to do is the Binder-method of noting...
    
    1.) Enter a reply
    2.) Catch all the spelling/grammatical errors just after entering by
        finally reading what you wrote.
    3.) Extract the reply.
    4.) Delete the reply.
    5.) Fix mistakes in your edit buffer.
    6.) Re-enter the reply with fixed mistakes.
    7.) at: Notes> type : modify note/note_id=### to the old deleted reply.
    8.) Repeat as necessary... (or however many times it takes you to catch
        all the mistakes... whichever comes first)
    9.) Slit wrists.. and "ohm" to the grammar gods as your life-blood
        slips away...
    
    
    Hope this helps...
    

    
    I thought that was the Conlon-method 8^)))).
    
    

    
    >I thought that was the Conlon-method 8^)))).
    
    
    
    I woulda mentioned that, but I'm on Prozac...

>    9.) Slit wrists.. and "ohm" to the grammar gods as your life-blood
>        slips away...

For some reason, I feel a lot of resistance to doing this one.

TTom

    
    
    Yes, but your capacitance for tolerance will certainly increase...
    

    
    andy is just a tad testy lately. Andy eat a Spam sandwich with Miracle
    Whip, it will do wonders for your demeanor. :-)

    <--- and top it with Cheese-Whiz (tm)...

    
    
    re: .19
    
    Mark...
    
    >andy is just a tad testy lately. 
    
    Time to clean out the dust from your Pun-O-Meter...
    
    >Andy eat a Spam sandwich with Miracle Whip,
    
     Yuk!!!!
    
    Spam should be eaten sans any coatings to relish the full flavor.
    
    I've only had Miracle Whip on a horse-doover... and it's really tasty
    
    (1) Town-House cracker
    (1) dab of Miracle Whip
    (1) slice of cucumber on top...
    

>    I've only had Miracle Whip on a horse-doover... and it's really tasty
    
>    (1) Town-House cracker
>    (1) dab of Miracle Whip
>    (1) slice of cucumber on top...
        
        Now just slap some canned mushrooms on top of that and you can be
        a real heathen...
        
    

    
    
    I'm gonna have to do something to short-circuit that long memory of
    yours, %y...
    
     Either that, or I'll just have to kill you...
    
    
    

    
    Percenty?
    

    
    <---- ?????

    
    re: .24
    
    >Percenty?
    
    
    Shaddap you!!!!
    
    I've got mortgages on my mind!!!!!!
    

    Andy does seem a mite tetchy - or is it tetched?

    
    <--- no. you use that to climb. nnttm, kfc, ipa, taco bell, etc..

    
    alright... I'll bite, just to get us back on track to .0
    
    - generally I'm not superstitious, but I would rather not
      leave port on a Friday. However if that's the weather window,
      I guess I'll bite the bullet and go.
    
    

My biggest superstition is that I don't like to get the top newspaper.
I figger someone's already fondled and read it. I go for the second or
third one down.

The real perplexion is when there's only one in the box. Talk about some
real stress!~

TTom

    |I figger someone's already fondled and read it. 
    
    how do you fondle a newspaper?

    <-- I would imagine it is something similar to groping it.  
    
    nnttm, hth, IMO, AT&T, M&K, PC, Sony...

>    how do you fondle a newspaper?

You just don't know what someone mighta done with your paper afore you
got there.

I like to reach an agreement with it for how far I can go and how much
it'll cost me.

    |You just don't know what someone mighta done with your paper afore you
    got there.
    
    i can see reason for concern if a herd of puppies were hanging
    around the stand.

    was

    
    I'm with ttom.  I never take the top paper.  You just never know where
    it's BEEN.
    

>My biggest superstition is that I don't like to get the top newspaper.
>I figger someone's already fondled and read it. I go for the second or
>third one down.


eesh...I do the same thing :-/

>The real perplexion is when there's only one in the box. Talk about some
>real stress!~


 no stress..just find another box!

    
    	What a bunch of loonies we have in here.
    

    
    I get my newspaper delivered to my door. It's a Chicago thing.

 I buy 2 newspapers every day ('cept Sunday).  I may get around to reading
 only one of them, but I buy 2 without exception.  




 Jim

So do I.

Since I'm often semi brain dead in the morning, I like to read a copy of
USA Today. 

However, I like the local paper for the letters to the editor and
editorials.

    i have a weird newspaper thing.  sometimes i get the
    ny sunday times.  i rifle through it before purchasing
    to make sure that my favorite sections are present and
    accounted for.  i just don't trust those newspaper
    assemblers.

    
    I usually do the crossword puzzle before church. It's a chicago
    thing. 

    Dennis Rodman is also a Chicago thing.
    
    
    			lunchbox

    
    <--- by way of San Antonio and Detroit

 re .43


 I also do that on occasion.  Too many times I've arrived at home with the
 Sunday paper all ready to read the sports section and it is not there.



 Jim

    I always start shaving at my left "sideburn".
    I always put on my left skiboot first and only do the power strap then
    put on the right one.  
    I always click my poles on the downhill side of the start wand in a
    race.
    I try not to wish bad things on people regardless of how mean or nasty
    they may be, to try and keep my karma intact, somewhat.  
    I will not walk under a ladder.  
    I get freaked if I come close to breaking a mirror. 
    I refuse to kill spiders, but I will smash ants with impunity.
    I would not give a boat a name with 13 letters nor leave port on a
    Friday.
    
    Just thought I'd share.
    
    Brian

    
    	I don't walk under ladders because I'd rather not have something
    	fall on my head or other body part.
    
    	I only wish harm on REALLY nasty people, like Hussein or someone
    	like that.
    
    	I also smoosh ants, but not spiders.
    

    Some of these are more habit than superstition.

    i obliterate spiders with impunity.

    
    re: .51
    
    >i obliterate spiders with impunity.
    
    
    
    I am deeply saddened...

 I will not walk on a frozen pond, I don't care how thick the ice is.  I
 won't do it.



 Jim

    
    Not even if you had a car as a point-man???
    
    

must be the anti-Christ.  Won't walk on water, even if it's frozen solid.

    
>    Not even if you had a car as a point-man???
 

    nope.   
    

    many moons ago I worked in a drug store and the owner would have his
    assistants go through and pull out the coupons and he'd turn them in to
    the mftrs...ended up doing time for fraud.
    
    not many moons ago i del'd nuseapapiers, aktually the NY Times, for
    some extra money...we did a test, we'd put a small mark on the top
    nusepapier in the rack and when we comeback to refill, over 80% of the
    time the top one was still there with our mark on it...crazy 'miuricans

    The top one is usually minus the coupons and the tv guide.  Since
    these are the two most important things I buy the Sunday paper for, 
    I never grab the top one.  I get the 3rd or 4th.

    Habits are habits only if there is no reason, logical or otherwise
    behind them.  In my case, I feel that the "habits" described in .48 are
    motivated less logical reasons other than "because I always do it that
    way".  I just don't feel right if I do otherwise.  No, there are
    mysterious forces out there.
    
    Brian

    
    If I'm at a party and need to go to the can, I'll check behind the
    shower curtain to make sure no-one is back there peeking at me and my
    Johnson...
    

    If I'm at a party, I sneak into the bathroom and hide behind
    the shower curtain for an hour to watch the action.

    do what in the bathtub?

    
    
    re: .61
    
    We'll have to synchronize our parties from now on....

>    do what in the bathtub?

Whatever!~

    Place a silver dollar under the mast when rigging a new boat for good
    luck.  
    
    Never whistle on a boat unless you really want a lot of wind.
    
    If you ever turn a winch backwards, for each click back, a sailor will
    be lost at sea.  
    
    Always touch the airplane before going through the door. 

    
    .60
    
    COSSACK!!
    
    
    

>    Place a silver dollar under the mast when rigging a new boat for good
>    luck.  

Nail one _to_ the mast if you want to see whales.

    .69's can kinda super...
    
    
    mike
    

    
    where I grew up there was plenty of superstitions especially in the
    rural areas, such as:
    
    - never call "anybody/anything" to come into your house when obviously
      there's no one outside (still gives me goosebumps, this one!) because
      you may be inviting the bad spirits instead!
    
    - do not make remarks like "what a big tree" in "hot" places. I think
      this is just to curb potential rude comments.
    
    - always ask permission when tramping around the jungle etc. Like
      asking Neptune to be nice when you're out at sea.
    
    The funny thing is ... it is not easy to recall these sitting here
    but whenever I went back home, they all would come back. Some I laughed
    at but some still raise the hair on my neck! Go figure.
    
    

    
    .70
    
    you either grew up in Stephen King country (Maine) or the jungles of
    the Amazon. or maybe not.

    
    re .71  not quite and remember these sort of things are larger
    	    than life when one's a child.
    	    
            as an adult I am relatively free of superstitions except
    	    leaving port on Fridays. The 2-3 that turned out pretty
    	    nasty may have been mere coincidences, but hey, gotta have
    	    one belief, right?
    

    
    true, I have one superstition that I follow religously, without fail.
    If I find a beer can upside down in my fridge, I don't drink it. I'm
    told the evil beer spirits will come spewing out in great froth. Don't
    know if it's true though.

When I take leftover beers from a cooler, I put 'em back in the fridge
upside down to remind myself that these are repeat offenders.

TTom

    Not true Mark.  Especially if you give it a real good tossing around
    first.  That re-equilibrates the beer molecules and purges any evil
    brewdemons.  Open immediately though or your beer may become
    reposessed.  Hth, nnttm, enjoy with impunity.   

    
    <---- :-) :-)

Please send any suspicious beer, especially any that you know to have
once been upside-down, to me. I will personally check said beer and
return a written, certified report detailing any danger attributable
thereto.

Yours in public service,
Pete

    
    I think I've got some upside-down Meister Braus in my fridge.
    

    Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh!!!!!

    
    Should I take that as "Not KAO 2/8"?
    
    

    Perhaps TRO 1/2.
    
    8^/

    getting married in odd-numbered centuries.
    
    bad karma.

    .78
    
    Doesn't that belong in the GAK topic?

    
    Most likely 8^).