"Nexie" <greenknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:v4dEf.23964$mf2.2746@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> oldmadbadger wrote:
>> now you can all go to bed happy
>>
>> goodnight
>>
>> badger XXX
>
> Whew! Thank gods. If you hadn't posted all the latest news on Eddie this
> newsgroup would have been pointless other than a meeting place for
people
> with a similar interest to talk about things and socialise. What a
> nightmare!
i know !!! and i proved a point to meself (which i knew anyway) that if
you
give people (and i use that term in its loosest sense) what they want and
post summat "on-topic" the whingeing gits suddenly disappear into the
tumbleweed zone and you're left whistling in the wind (due to an
overindulgence in french onion cup-a-soup i hasten to add, i don't
normally
smell like this)
> If only someone would invent a global, easily accesible media where
people
> could search for things they are interested in and find them out for
> themselves...
i think they called it a library in my grannie's day (but then since she's
still going strong that day is in fact today)
> Science fiction, or science fact?! Fingers crossed! Maybe in a hundred
> years, perhaps when telephones can be used without wires and...wait,
I've
> had an epiphany...if...maybe....these wireless telephones...and maybe
> televisions....could...access this global media too...and people could
> find things out...without someone handing it to them on a plate?!?
you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead, mate
(that's one of halfman halfbiscuit's best lines, for those of you who like
myself abhor the use of unattributed quotes and foolish plagiarism)
> Jeez! A world where people used their brains, instead of eating them!
> 1984!!! Rock on!!!
what ? the album by the eurythmics, featuring the crap single "*** crimes"
?
> p.s. I saw this crazy science fiction film where people could see each
> other on a screen when they talked on the telephone. I think it had
Buster
> Crabb in - the guy who plays Tarzan - and he had a "space****p" that left
> the planet and went to other planets. I know it's a bit far-fetched, but
> what would we do with such mind-boggling technology? I bet famine and
> world peace would be sorted out straight away.
i bet not, someone like peter jackson would remake it in new zealand and
include a soundtrack of Queen songs with ben elton providing the vocals
>
> "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" - my English teacher at school
> "That's ok, I have the lowest form of mind, that's why you're teaching
> me" - me, shortly before detention.
"and the highest form of intelligence "
ditto the quote and the detention
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