R M. Watkin wrote:

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped.

The reason that people top post is because they are too damn lazy
to snip the irrevelant portions of the message to which they are
responding.

This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point.

This does not happen when posters follow net etiquette.

Hope this helps you.

Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Dick

On 2/11/07 12:23 PM, in article , "Dick
Adams" wrote:

R M. Watkin wrote:

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped.

The reason that people top post is because they are too damn lazy
to snip the irrevelant portions of the message to which they are
responding.

This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point.

This does not happen when posters follow net etiquette.

Hope this helps you.

Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Dick

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Bill
-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:55:22 GMT, Salmon Egg
wrote:
"Dick Adams" wrote:
R M. Watkin wrote:

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.


Penelope
--
You have proven yourself to be the most malicious,
classless person that I've encountered in years.
- "pointed"

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

--oTTo--

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, Otto Bahn wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is *finally*
iced over, so no more lake effect storms here! Lake Ontario is the
culprit over Oswego County.

--
Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951.
"My dog ate my gratitude journal." -- Paula


--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

"Chris McGonnell" wrote

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is *finally*
iced over, so alert the local EMS it's bozos-on-ice season.

IFYPFY.

Lake Ontario is the culprit over Oswego County.

Either that or Tamara started drinking again.

(Yeah, right. Erie is south of Ontario.)

--oTTo--

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:56:09 -0500, Otto Bahn wrote:
"Chris McGonnell" wrote
Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is *finally*
iced over, so alert the local EMS it's bozos-on-ice season.

IFYPFY.

I wuv that show. Especially in Cleveland where it's on the lake AND the
roads. (Note: Cleveland drivers know how to drive on snow/ice just fine,
but do it assuming -you- do too, in cars held together with duct tape and
iPod wires, at 20mph over the speed limit. This causes wackiness qualitatively
different from the Southern "O NOES IT'S ICE!" "O RLY?? TO THE GROCERY STORE,
MUST STOCK UP ON TOILET PAPER AND MILK!" wackiness.)

Dave
--
\/David DeLaney posting from "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeableBLINK
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

Chris McGonnell wrote in
:

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, Otto Bahn wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric
study identifying the various other social
disfunctionalities associated with people who top-post
to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top
posting is pretty minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
after 65 million years of dominating the earth, nuclear
weapon development in Iran is pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is
*finally* iced over, so no more lake effect storms here!
Lake Ontario is the culprit over Oswego County.


You be wrong, per Channel 8 (Cleveland)(or was that the
Clveland Plain Dealer ?)(it were someone local, at least, and
news-ish). Huron is sending us wet gooey masses of snow. And
Lake Effect is just a term for "We aren't sure how much will
fall before it stops or where it will fall so we will make up
this here cute name for GO SOUTH OR FREEZE YOU IDIOTS"


--
TeaLady (mari)

"The principle of Race is meant to embody and express the
utter negation of human freedom, the denial of equal rights, a
challenge in the face of mankind." A. Kolnai

TeaLady (Mari C.) wrote:
Chris McGonnell wrote in
:


On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, Otto Bahn wrote:


"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote


top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric
study identifying the various other social
disfunctionalities associated with people who top-post
to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top
posting is pretty minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
after 65 million years of dominating the earth, nuclear
weapon development in Iran is pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is
*finally* iced over, so no more lake effect storms here!
Lake Ontario is the culprit over Oswego County.



You be wrong, per Channel 8 (Cleveland)(or was that the
Clveland Plain Dealer ?)(it were someone local, at least, and
news-ish). Huron is sending us wet gooey masses of snow. And
Lake Effect is just a term for "We aren't sure how much will
fall before it stops or where it will fall so we will make up
this here cute name for GO SOUTH OR FREEZE YOU IDIOTS"



Patience will be rewarded. 2006 was the hottest year
on record in the US, and the fifth hottest year in
the world on record (following only 1998, 2002, 2003
and 2005). The past 9 years have all been among the
25 warmest years on record for the continental US.
Every single year since 1993 has been in the top 20
warmest years on record, globally. Researchers predict
that temperatures worldwide will increase between 2
and 8 degrees by the end of the century.

So, my advice is to stay put and wait it out.

On 14 Feb 2007 01:07:37 GMT, TeaLady (Mari C.) wrote:

Chris McGonnell wrote in
:
snip

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is
*finally* iced over, so no more lake effect storms here!
Lake Ontario is the culprit over Oswego County.


You be wrong, per Channel 8 (Cleveland)(or was that the
Clveland Plain Dealer ?)(it were someone local, at least, and
news-ish). Huron is sending us wet gooey masses of snow. And
Lake Effect is just a term for "We aren't sure how much will
fall before it stops or where it will fall so we will make up
this here cute name for GO SOUTH OR FREEZE YOU IDIOTS"

HAW HAW, you get two lake effects, you looZ3rs! The loony ice
fishermen were herded off Erie yesterday; perhaps we could send 'em
out on Huron?! And lake effect snowstorms usually strike below Buffalo
and 30 miles north of me, so I'm just getting a good old-fashioned
snowfall.

Would you like me to send the St. Bernards west?

--
Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951.
"My dog ate my gratitude journal." -- Paula


--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

In article ,
"TeaLady (Mari C.)" wrote:

And
Lake Effect is just a term for "We aren't sure how much will
fall before it stops or where it will fall so we will make up
this here cute name for GO SOUTH OR FREEZE YOU IDIOTS"

Not in Oswego County it isn't. There "lake effect" means "go look at
the radar and you'll see it, Mother Nature giving us the finger plain as
day".

--
- Doctroid Doctroid Holmes
It's too confused to make sense, so let's make nonsense.
-- Chris McG.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, "Otto Bahn" wrote:


Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

Why, are you feeling peckish?


Penelope
--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

Why, are you feeling peckish?

I'm hungry for some crotchety.

--oTTo--

"Otto Bahn" wrote in news:eqsmh7$m55$1
@gargoyle.oit.duke.edu:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

Why, are you feeling peckish?

I'm hungry for some crotchety.


I was told we don't do pRon on this here chatroom.

--
TeaLady (mari)

"The principle of Race is meant to embody and express the utter
negation of human freedom, the denial of equal rights, a
challenge in the face of mankind." A. Kolnai

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:05:34 GMT, Penelope Periwinkle
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:55:22 GMT, Salmon Egg
wrote:
"Dick Adams" wrote:
R M. Watkin wrote:

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.

I've seen some loony theories before on the Usernet [TM], but this one
just about takes the cake. An asteroid dominating the earth for 65
million years? I don't think so.