Peter J Ross wrote:

> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmaleficapendragon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 5:06:26 PM UTC-5, Peter J Ross
>> wrote:
>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmalef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > ATTN: Robert and Ash: The Facebook AAPC welcomes your posts.
>>> >
>>> > https://www.facebook.com/groups/184972343500393
>>> >
>>> > Donkeys and Dunces need not apply.
>>> In so far as they obviously don't *want* to apply, they're obviously
>>> not quite as stupid as you.
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Your post wasn't really worth replying to, but I've just re-installed
>>> slrn, and I need to make a few test posts while setting it up.
>>>
>>> Hmm. I need to set a signature file and one or two custom headers,
>>> and I used to have something in my .vimrc that automagically wrapped
>>> the attribution line to 72 columns....
>>>
>>> While I'm working all these details out, Creepy Mike, I'll be too
>>> preoccupied to pay much attention to flame wars, so now is the best
>>> chance you've ever had to get the better of me. My confusion may last
>>> up to six or seven hours, so take your chance! There is a tide in the
>>> affairs of moronic, self-important, creepy, whining poetasters, that,
>>> taken at the flood...
>>
>> I'm sorry, Peter, but what am I supposed to be getting the better of
>> you about?
>>
>> And why do you think I should care to do so?

> "BAWK! BAWK! BAWK!"

> By the way, in the conversation in which I learned about the impending
> death of Google Gropes, I enquired about the health of Dunce and
> Dreckery, but I completely forgot about you. You imagine yourself to be
> a mighty and memorable personality, but in reality you're not even as
> mighty and memorable as Dunce or Dreckery. How sad!

Ask Michael Pendragon about his pathetic delusional belief that he's a better poet than T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound.

🙂

On 2023-12-16, Will Dockery <will.dockery@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter J Ross wrote:
>
>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmaleficapendragon@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 5:06:26 PM UTC-5, Peter J Ross
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmalef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > ATTN: Robert and Ash: The Facebook AAPC welcomes your posts.
>>>> >
>>>> > https://www.facebook.com/groups/184972343500393
>>>> >
>>>> > Donkeys and Dunces need not apply.
>>>> In so far as they obviously don't *want* to apply, they're
>>>> obviously not quite as stupid as you.
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> Your post wasn't really worth replying to, but I've just
>>>> re-installed slrn, and I need to make a few test posts while
>>>> setting it up.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm. I need to set a signature file and one or two custom headers,
>>>> and I used to have something in my .vimrc that automagically
>>>> wrapped the attribution line to 72 columns....
>>>>
>>>> While I'm working all these details out, Creepy Mike, I'll be too
>>>> preoccupied to pay much attention to flame wars, so now is the best
>>>> chance you've ever had to get the better of me. My confusion may
>>>> last up to six or seven hours, so take your chance! There is a tide
>>>> in the affairs of moronic, self-important, creepy, whining
>>>> poetasters, that, taken at the flood...
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, Peter, but what am I supposed to be getting the better of
>>> you about?
>>>
>>> And why do you think I should care to do so?
>
>> "BAWK! BAWK! BAWK!"
>
>> By the way, in the conversation in which I learned about the
>> impending death of Google Gropes, I enquired about the health of
>> Dunce and Dreckery, but I completely forgot about you. You imagine
>> yourself to be a mighty and memorable personality, but in reality
>> you're not even as mighty and memorable as Dunce or Dreckery. How
>> sad!
>
> Ask Michael Pendragon about his pathetic delusional belief that he's a
> better poet than T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound.

You, OTOH, have merely claimed to be as good a poet as William
Shakespeare.

--
PJR :-)

Peter J Ross wrote:

> On 2023-12-16, Will Dockery <will.dockery@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peter J Ross wrote:
>>
>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmaleficapendragon@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 5:06:26 PM UTC-5, Peter J Ross
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmalef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > ATTN: Robert and Ash: The Facebook AAPC welcomes your posts.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > https://www.facebook.com/groups/18497xxx3500393
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Donkeys and Dunces need not apply.
>>>>> In so far as they obviously don't *want* to apply, they're
>>>>> obviously not quite as stupid as you.
>>>>>
>>>>> *
>>>>>
>>>>> Your post wasn't really worth replying to, but I've just
>>>>> re-installed slrn, and I need to make a few test posts while
>>>>> setting it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. I need to set a signature file and one or two custom headers,
>>>>> and I used to have something in my .vimrc that automagically
>>>>> wrapped the attribution line to 72 columns....
>>>>>
>>>>> While I'm working all these details out, Creepy Mike, I'll be too
>>>>> preoccupied to pay much attention to flame wars, so now is the best
>>>>> chance you've ever had to get the better of me. My confusion may
>>>>> last up to six or seven hours, so take your chance! There is a tide
>>>>> in the affairs of moronic, self-important, creepy, whining
>>>>> poetasters, that, taken at the flood...
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry, Peter, but what am I supposed to be getting the better of
>>>> you about?
>>>>
>>>> And why do you think I should care to do so?
>>
>>> "BAWK! BAWK! BAWK!"
>>
>>> By the way, in the conversation in which I learned about the
>>> impending death of Google Gropes, I enquired about the health of
>>> Dunce and Dreckery, but I completely forgot about you. You imagine
>>> yourself to be a mighty and memorable personality, but in reality
>>> you're not even as mighty and memorable as Dunce or Dreckery. How
>>> sad!
>>
>> Ask Michael Pendragon about his pathetic delusional belief that he's a
>> better poet than T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound.

> You, OTOH, have merely claimed

Again, a lie.

I made no such claims.

Glad to clear up your lies and misrepresentations and set the record straight, PJR.

🙂

On 2023-12-21, W.Dockery <W.Dockery@news.novabbs.com> wrote:

> I

> lie

> and misrepresent

We know.

--
PJR :-)

Robert Burrows wrote:

> On Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 10:50:14 PM UTC-5, W.Dockery wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> > Peter J Ross wrote:
>> >> On 2023-12-16, Will Dockery <will.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> Peter J Ross wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmalef...@gmail.com>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>> On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 5:06:26 PM UTC-5, Peter J Ross
>> >>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmalef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>>>>> > ATTN: Robert and Ash: The Facebook AAPC welcomes your posts.
>> >>>>>> >
>> >>>>>> > https://www.facebook.com/groups/18497xxx3500393
>> >>>>>> >
>> >>>>>> > Donkeys and Dunces need not apply.
>> >>>>>> In so far as they obviously don't *want* to apply, they're
>> >>>>>> obviously not quite as stupid as you.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> *
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Your post wasn't really worth replying to, but I've just
>> >>>>>> re-installed slrn, and I need to make a few test posts while
>> >>>>>> setting it up.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Hmm. I need to set a signature file and one or two custom headers,
>> >>>>>> and I used to have something in my .vimrc that automagically
>> >>>>>> wrapped the attribution line to 72 columns....
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> While I'm working all these details out, Creepy Mike, I'll be too
>> >>>>>> preoccupied to pay much attention to flame wars, so now is the best
>> >>>>>> chance you've ever had to get the better of me. My confusion may
>> >>>>>> last up to six or seven hours, so take your chance! There is a tide
>> >>>>>> in the affairs of moronic, self-important, creepy, whining
>> >>>>>> poetasters, that, taken at the flood...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I'm sorry, Peter, but what am I supposed to be getting the better of
>> >>>>> you about?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> And why do you think I should care to do so?
>> >>>
>> >>>> "BAWK! BAWK! BAWK!"
>> >>>
>> >>>> By the way, in the conversation in which I learned about the
>> >>>> impending death of Google Gropes, I enquired about the health of
>> >>>> Dunce and Dreckery, but I completely forgot about you. You imagine
>> >>>> yourself to be a mighty and memorable personality, but in reality
>> >>>> you're not even as mighty and memorable as Dunce or Dreckery. How
>> >>>> sad!
>> >>>
>> >>> Ask Michael Pendragon about his pathetic delusional belief that he's a
>> >>> better poet than T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound.
>>
>> >> You, OTOH, have merely claimed
>>
>> > Again, a lie.
>>
>> > I made no such claims.
>>
>> > Glad to clear up your lies and misrepresentations and set the record straight, PJR.
>>
>> And from PJR:
>>
>> "Crickets."
>>
>> 🙂

> Out, out, brief Google!
> Life's but a drunken shadow, a poor singer,
> That trips and zorros
> his hour upon the stage,
> And then is heard no more. It is a tale
> Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
> Signifying nothing.

You're a Google Groups user, aren't you, Robert?

🙂

Will Dockery wrote:

> Peter J Ross wrote:

>> On 2023-12-16, Will Dockery <will.dockery@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Peter J Ross wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmaleficapendragon@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 5:06:26 PM UTC-5, Peter J Ross
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023-12-16, Michael Pendragon <michaelmalef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>> > ATTN: Robert and Ash: The Facebook AAPC welcomes your posts.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > https://www.facebook.com/groups/18497xxx3500393
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Donkeys and Dunces need not apply.
>>>>>> In so far as they obviously don't *want* to apply, they're
>>>>>> obviously not quite as stupid as you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your post wasn't really worth replying to, but I've just
>>>>>> re-installed slrn, and I need to make a few test posts while
>>>>>> setting it up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm. I need to set a signature file and one or two custom headers,
>>>>>> and I used to have something in my .vimrc that automagically
>>>>>> wrapped the attribution line to 72 columns....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While I'm working all these details out, Creepy Mike, I'll be too
>>>>>> preoccupied to pay much attention to flame wars, so now is the best
>>>>>> chance you've ever had to get the better of me. My confusion may
>>>>>> last up to six or seven hours, so take your chance! There is a tide
>>>>>> in the affairs of moronic, self-important, creepy, whining
>>>>>> poetasters, that, taken at the flood...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry, Peter, but what am I supposed to be getting the better of
>>>>> you about?
>>>>>
>>>>> And why do you think I should care to do so?
>>>
>>>> "BAWK! BAWK! BAWK!"
>>>
>>>> By the way, in the conversation in which I learned about the
>>>> impending death of Google Gropes, I enquired about the health of
>>>> Dunce and Dreckery, but I completely forgot about you. You imagine
>>>> yourself to be a mighty and memorable personality, but in reality
>>>> you're not even as mighty and memorable as Dunce or Dreckery. How
>>>> sad!
>>>
>>> Ask Michael Pendragon about his pathetic delusional belief that he's a
>>> better poet than T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound.

>> You, OTOH, have merely claimed

> Again, a lie.

> I made no such claims.

> Glad to clear up your lies and misrepresentations and set the record straight, PJR.

And from PJR:

"Crickets."

🙂