New frigging Mellinium

What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn? Or are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! Tony Long P.S. Damn, I can still type.

I'm awake at 0541! I wasn't partying though. I was baby-sitting the power plant I work at all night. We came through Y2K without a glitch. I was at least hoping for a >little< glitch just to make it interesting. Oh well. I sent the wife and kids to the parents for the weekend just in case I didn't get home, so now I have the whole place to myself--time for some DTR!! Bryan

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> What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn? Or > are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I > hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn > hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you > have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame > me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! > Tony Long > P.S. Damn, I can still type.

The new millenium isn't until 2001. -- Rory S. Brown Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com Home Designed Computers by Rory "Custom Computers for your needs!" Visit www.directcomputers.com Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 Phone 604-671-5997 Fax 604-930-9983 Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and The Kool Racing Challenge Tour Visit www.players-racing.com

Actually I'm one of the four hor*** and I slept in last night! You bastards just wait til next year!!!!

Same for the new millennium as well :-)

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> The new millenium isn't until 2001. > -- > Rory S. Brown > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > Home Designed Computers by Rory > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > Visit www.directcomputers.com > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > Phone 604-671-5997 > Fax 604-930-9983 > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > Visit www.players-racing.com > > What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn? Or > > are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I > > hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn > > hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you > > have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame > > me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! > > Tony Long > > P.S. Damn, I can still type.

Not. It's been 1000 years since the year 1000, that's a Millenium. If you want to get really technical about it, most scholars agree that Jesus was born in 4-5 BC, so the "millenium" was four years ago. Joe McGinn _________________________ GA-Sports Writer http://www.ga-sports.com/

http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/cal_stud/newmill.htm Good catch Joe. <g> Greg

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> >The new millenium isn't until 2001. > Not. It's been 1000 years since the year 1000, that's a Millenium. If > you want to get really technical about it, most scholars agree that > Jesus was born in 4-5 BC, so the "millenium" was four years ago. > Joe McGinn > _________________________ > GA-Sports Writer > http://www.ga-sports.com/

>Not. It's been 1000 years since the year 1000, that's a Millenium. If >you want to get really technical about it, most scholars agree that >Jesus was born in 4-5 BC, so the "millenium" was four years ago. Same experts also generally think he wasn't born on 12/25 either. The day we use for Xmas was actually conveniently co-opted by early Xtians, being at that time already a pagan celebration of the winter solstice. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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Thank heavens! I thought that mine was the lone voice in the wilderness of "Millennium" hype.

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> The new millenium isn't until 2001. > -- > Rory S. Brown > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > Home Designed Computers by Rory > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > Visit www.directcomputers.com > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > Phone 604-671-5997 > Fax 604-930-9983 > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > Visit www.players-racing.com > > What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn? Or > > are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I > > hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn > > hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you > > have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame > > me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! > > Tony Long > > P.S. Damn, I can still type.

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Joe, it's based on the fact that we (the vast bulk of the so-called "western world") use the Gregorian calendar. We count a decade as being ten years, the first year is year 1 (not year 0) and the last year in the decade is year 10 (not year 0). Therefore a century is from Year 1 to Year 100 and a millennium is from Year 1 to Year 1000. To conclude, the 20th. century ends at midnight Year 2000 and the 21st. century starts in 2001.

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> >The new millenium isn't until 2001. > Not. It's been 1000 years since the year 1000, that's a Millenium. If > you want to get really technical about it, most scholars agree that > Jesus was born in 4-5 BC, so the "millenium" was four years ago. > Joe McGinn > _________________________ > GA-Sports Writer > http://www.ga-sports.com/

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That's probably technically true, but for me 2000 is much better to celebrate than 2001 :-) -- Cheers! Graeme "gradually recovering" Nash :-)

Um, no. There was no Year 0 A.D. First Millennium: Year 1 to Year 1000 A.D. Second Millennium: Year 1001 to Year 2000 Third Millennium: Year 2001 to Year 3000 (note to IT people: Start planning for Y3K). Finally, the Millennium isn't based on when Jesus was born, it's based on the calendar year. The calendar is based on an estimate of when Jesus was born, but the notion that the calendar inventors got the year and date wrong is moot. -- Philip D'Amato 1999 Ninja 500R > >The new millenium isn't until 2001. > Not. It's been 1000 years since the year 1000, that's a Millenium. If > you want to get really technical about it, most scholars agree that > Jesus was born in 4-5 BC, so the "millenium" was four years ago. > Joe McGinn > _________________________ > GA-Sports Writer > http://www.ga-sports.com/

Their is a new racing coming out sim called "millenium"? Or is it "Mellooneyum"? I cant really remember. Not that I'm getting off topic now but the important thing is that I had this onion on my belt and my friend likes strawberry ice-cream. Is any of this making sense? I figured this was a good post to attach a thread like this to. Happy holidays guys and see you in the fence! A.T. Stiff

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> Thank heavens! I thought that mine was the lone voice in the wilderness of > "Millennium" hype. > > The new millenium isn't until 2001. > > -- > > Rory S. Brown > > Canadian Distributor for Hyper Stimulator > > "The World's Best Racing Car Simulators" > > Visit www.hyperstimcanada.com > > Home Designed Computers by Rory > > "Custom Computers for your needs!" > > Visit www.directcomputers.com > > Unit 7 - 9947 - 151 Street > > Surrey, BC Canada V3R 9A1 > > Phone 604-671-5997 > > Fax 604-930-9983 > > Official Supplier of Computers & Hyper Stimulators to: > > the Players Racing Simulator Challenge Tour and > > The Kool Racing Challenge Tour > > Visit www.players-racing.com > > > What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn?

Or > > > are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I

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> > > hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn > > > hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you > > > have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame > > > me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! > > > Tony Long > > > P.S. Damn, I can still type. > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News

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Why celebrate the fact that you are one year closer to the grave? I can appreciate not forgetting one's birthdate, where we raise a glass to the fact that we were born, but I cannot understand this almost hysterical euphoria that occurs at the end/beginning of each year. Why?

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> >The new millenium isn't until 2001. > That's probably technically true, but for me 2000 is much better to > celebrate than 2001 :-) > -- > Cheers! > Graeme "gradually recovering" Nash :-)

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>Joe, it's based on the fact that we (the vast bulk of the so-called >"western world") use the Gregorian calendar. We count a decade as being >ten years, the first year is year 1 (not year 0) and the last year in the >decade is year 10 (not year 0). >Therefore a century is from Year 1 to Year 100 and a millennium is from >Year 1 to Year 1000. >To conclude, the 20th. century ends at midnight Year 2000 and the 21st. >century starts in 2001.

So the decade of the 90's is from 1991 to 2000? Don't think so. The whole thing is semantics anyway. If you think about it logically, you can see the point on BOTH sides... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

> Um, no. > There was no Year 0 A.D. > First Millennium: Year 1 to Year 1000 A.D. > Second Millennium: Year 1001 to Year 2000 > Third Millennium: Year 2001 to Year 3000 (note to IT people: Start > planning for Y3K). Actually, the IT people should be prepared for Y-10-K. They've only added 2 digits to the date counter, which means that all computers better be up to date by the year 9999 AD. Ah, well. The fearmongers and their crackpot buddies are _still_ telling us that Doomsday is Monday, when all the bus- inesses get started back up again. Tell that to the rest of us who actually checked ahead of time... And it's a moot point with me. The Earth is still rotat- ing on its axis, the sun is still rising and setting on- schedule, and the tides are still turning. Someone better go visit the crackpots in their caves and give them their old Win95 PCs; mine is still working fine nearly 36 hours after the predicted End Of The World. Meanwhile, as I'm going to be seeing how my new Compaq notebook will handle N3 and N1999, perhaps those poor suckers will be paying the con artists who sold them on the idea that every computer in the world was going to blow up a little visit. I may even provide the gasoline for their torches. Have a better year this year than you've had last year, Y'all... -- Yujon3D.

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> > So the decade of the 90's is from 1991 to 2000? Don't think so. > > The whole thing is semantics anyway. If you think about it logically, you can > > see the point on BOTH sides... Uhhh, no you can't. Sorry, I've been trying to stay out of these wars, but stubborn idiots have pushed me to my limit. You don't start counting ANYTHING with "0", you start counting things with ONE. As in "year ONE", as in "year ONE to 100 was the first century. Year ONE to 1000, was the first millennium, and year Two Thousand and ONE will start the NEXT millennium." -- - TP (.sig file on the transporter heading for the wind tunnel)

> > > So the decade of the 90's is from 1991 to 2000? Don't think so. > > > The whole thing is semantics anyway. If you think about it logically, you can > > > see the point on BOTH sides... So, you say that we count as follows: 2 Before Christ 1 Before Christ 1 After Christ 2 After Chrst etc. Then we forget the year in which christ was born, which must be the year 0! Han Monsees ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- drs. H.G.R. Monsees tel : 035-6 83 33 80 GSM : 06-23 57 92 48 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men who run in front of a car get tired, Men who run behind a car get exhausted. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hmmm...and you are using a computer, huh? Where does the binary system your entire computer is based on start counting? ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

> >>You don't > >> start counting ANYTHING with "0", you start counting things with > >> ONE. > Hmmm...and you are using a computer, huh? Where does the binary system your > entire computer is based on start counting? That's not "counting", that's the digits available for your use. Open up a dozen of eggs and count them. The digit "0" is available for use (you'll use it later, when you get to "ten"), but you don't call the first egg "zero", you count it as "one", and unless you're a total dolt, you'll end up at 12. -- - TP (.sig file on the transporter heading for the wind tunnel)

Are you always that happy? :-))) Well, beyond the obvious of the change of year providing a time for looking ahead and hoping for better things etc, some of us enjoy having a good time! -- Cheers! Graeme Nash

>Open up a dozen of eggs and count them. The digit "0" is available >for use (you'll use it later, when you get to "ten"), but you don't >call the first egg "zero", you count it as "one", and unless you're >a total dolt, you'll end up at 12. I must not be a total dolt because when I buy a DOZEN eggs I already know there's 12 without having to count them. :o) ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

Will this work on a dozen ***s too?

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> >Open up a dozen of eggs and count them. The digit "0" is available > >for use (you'll use it later, when you get to "ten"), but you don't > >call the first egg "zero", you count it as "one", and unless you're > >a total dolt, you'll end up at 12. > I must not be a total dolt because when I buy a DOZEN eggs I already know > there's 12 without having to count them. > :o) > ~daxe > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News

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This year is not complete. Therefore we have not completed 1000 years yet. bags

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>> > So the decade of the 90's is from 1991 to 2000? Don't think so. >> > The whole thing is semantics anyway. If you think about it logically, >you can >> > see the point on BOTH sides... >Uhhh, no you can't. Sorry, I've been trying to stay out of these >wars, but stubborn idiots have pushed me to my limit. You don't >start counting ANYTHING with "0", you start counting things with >ONE. As in "year ONE", as in "year ONE to 100 was the first >century. Year ONE to 1000, was the first millennium, and year >Two Thousand and ONE will start the NEXT millennium."

Are you calling *me* a stubborn idiot? So how do YOU count the decade of the 90's? With decades, people count from "0". I.E. 1990 - 1999. For the millenium, people count from "1", because there was no year zero. 1901-2000, and the next millenium starts with 2001. Therefore, there are two different counting methods, which would seem to conflict with each other. Simple. No need to get hostile. Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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>So, you say that we count as follows: >2 Before Christ >1 Before Christ >1 After Christ >2 After Chrst etc. >Then we forget the year in which christ was born, which must be the year >0! >Han Monsees

Techincally, I don't care. I'm an atheist... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Okay. Thanks.

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> >Joe, it's based on the fact that we (the vast bulk of the so-called > >"western world") use the Gregorian calendar. We count a decade as being > >ten years, the first year is year 1 (not year 0) and the last year in the > >decade is year 10 (not year 0). > >Therefore a century is from Year 1 to Year 100 and a millennium is from > >Year 1 to Year 1000. > >To conclude, the 20th. century ends at midnight Year 2000 and the 21st. > >century starts in 2001. > So the decade of the 90's is from 1991 to 2000? Don't think so. > The whole thing is semantics anyway. If you think about it logically, you can > see the point on BOTH sides... > Eldred > -- > Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 > Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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"When reason fails the ignorant, insult is brought to bear". Chartier - 1778

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> > So the decade of the 90's is from 1991 to 2000? Don't think so. > > The whole thing is semantics anyway. If you think about it logically, you can > > see the point on BOTH sides... > You're really over-estimating this jerk... > -- > ..... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ..... > . . > . "Don't argue with idiots. They drag you down to . > . their level, then beat you with experience." . > ..... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .....

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Here's one for ya's: If B.C was before Christ and A.D. is after his death, what did they call it when he was alive? :)

>Here's one for ya's: >If B.C was before Christ and A.D. is after his death, what did they >call it when he was alive? :) A.D. stands for "Anno Domini", Latin for 'Year of Our Lord'. daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

> >Here's one for ya's: > >If B.C was before Christ and A.D. is after his death, what did they > >call it when he was alive? :) > A.D. stands for "Anno Domini", Latin for 'Year of Our Lord'. So... you're saying that the first "year of our Lord" was called (either at the time it was happening or at anytime thereafter in history) "year zero"? - TP (.sig file on the transporter heading for the wind tunnel)

skotty skrev i meldingen ... M.C - meanwhile Christ. mk

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>> >Here's one for ya's: >> >If B.C was before Christ and A.D. is after his death, what did they >> >call it when he was alive? :) >> A.D. stands for "Anno Domini", Latin for 'Year of Our Lord'. >So... you're saying that the first "year of our Lord" was called >(either at the time it was happening or at anytime thereafter in >history) "year zero"?

No, I was correcting this person's mistaken assumption that A.D. stood for after death. I believe that the year of our lord stuff came about somewhere in the 600s or 700s when the creator of the gregorian calendar backdated (through research and assumptions, etc) to the supposed birth year of christ. I don;t know what system they were using at that time to ennumerate years, but I don't think in the year we think of as "1A.D." people were calling the previous year "1B.C." christ (according to the assorted works of fantasy that christians adhere to) wasn't important enough when he was born (or even for quite a while afterwards) to warrant people immediately dropping their current system and sudden counting everything in relation to his existence. I honestly couldn't care less when the new or next millenium starts or ends or whatever. It's just another year. People are e***d about it because the year now starts with 2 instead of 1 and that's really the whole of it. The only people I heard yelling about the new "millenium" was the media. All the real world people I know just called it 2000 or the year 2000. They aren't e***d because some calendar or other declares it is the second 1000 years after the alleged birth of christ or some other calendar says it's not. They don't care about that. All they care about is that they have a significantly different year to write on their checks or attached to their new car or to refer to in relation to their graduation from college or high school or as the birth year of their baby. People are e***d because it's 2000, not because it's the millenium (or not). Whatever. daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

: Joe, it's based on the fact that we (the vast bulk of the so-called : "western world") use the Gregorian calendar. We count a decade as being : ten years, the first year is year 1 (not year 0) and the last year in the : decade is year 10 (not year 0). Bzzzt. Wrong. The '90s ended on 31/12/1999. The '80s ended 31/12/1989. etc. : Therefore a century is from Year 1 to Year 100 and a millennium is from : Year 1 to Year 1000. : To conclude, the 20th. century ends at midnight Year 2000 and the 21st. : century starts in 2001. Wrong again. There is already a good post with a link to an explanation of the Common Era Calendar. And indeed, these calendars are a product of society's, and history's perception, therefore it is equally valid to consider the millenium change as the day that most people agree it changes. Not when a pedantic number cruncher says it ends. Stephen :> :> >The new millenium isn't until 2001. :> :> Not. It's been 1000 years since the year 1000, that's a Millenium. If :> you want to get really technical about it, most scholars agree that :> Jesus was born in 4-5 BC, so the "millenium" was four years ago. :> :> Joe McGinn :> _________________________ :> GA-Sports Writer :> http://www.ga-sports.com/ : -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- : http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! : ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

: That's not "counting", that's the digits available for your use. : Open up a dozen of eggs and count them. The digit "0" is available : for use (you'll use it later, when you get to "ten"), but you don't : call the first egg "zero", you count it as "one", and unless you're : a total dolt, you'll end up at 12. I opened my egg container and started counting. Unfortunately it was empty. I ended up counting "zero" eggs. Stephen

: Are you calling *me* a stubborn idiot? : So how do YOU count the decade of the 90's? With decades, people count from : "0". I.E. 1990 - 1999. For the millenium, people count from "1", because : there was no year zero. 1901-2000, and the next millenium starts with 2001. : Therefore, there are two different counting methods, which would seem to : conflict with each other. Simple. No need to get hostile. When did we change to a hundred year millenium? Is this to give us more opportunities for gala New Year's festivities? Or is it so*** Clark gets one more kick at the can? Stephen

FYI Dave Use capitalisation in Christ. It's a name. Apostrophe in Don't. Not a semi-colon. Only one "n" in enumerate You call it tomato and I'll call it tomato hehe. MS

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> FYI Dave > Use capitalisation in Christ. It's a name. > > christ. > Apostrophe in Don't. Not a semi-colon. > > I don;t know what system they were using at that time to > Only one "n" in enumerate > >ennumerate > You call it tomato and I'll call it tomato hehe. > MS

LMAO!!!! Aren't paybacks great? BTW-it's capitalization. -- //Chuck Kandler #70 //ChuckK or KS70 on Won.net //K&S Racing //http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 //The box said "Windows 0x5f or better", so I installed LINUX!

Cheers Chuck. <G> Sure I'm not perfect with my grammar and spelling but I do remember one quote from the bible. He without sin cast the first stone <BWG> MS BTW. I'm an airframe engineer not an Oxford litarary Don !

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> > FYI Dave > > Use capitalisation in Christ. It's a name. > > > christ. > > Apostrophe in Don't. Not a semi-colon. > > > I don;t know what system they were using at that time to > > Only one "n" in enumerate > > >ennumerate > > You call it tomato and I'll call it tomato hehe. > > MS > LMAO!!!! Aren't paybacks great? BTW-it's capitalization. > -- > file://Chuck Kandler #70 > file://ChuckK or KS70 on Won.net > file://K&S Racing > file://http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 > file://The box said "Windows 0x5f or better", so I installed LINUX!

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> : That's not "counting", that's the digits available for your use. > : Open up a dozen of eggs and count them. The digit "0" is available > : for use (you'll use it later, when you get to "ten"), but you don't > : call the first egg "zero", you count it as "one", and unless you're > : a total dolt, you'll end up at 12. > I opened my egg container and started counting. Unfortunately it was > empty. I ended up counting "zero" eggs.

Which isn't surprising, as you obviously have a big problem with comprehension ("a dozen of eggs", as I said, not "my egg container" as you so stupidly state.) If you counted "zero", then you have a much bigger problem than being a roaring, flaming ***. -- - TP (.sig file on the transporter heading for the wind tunnel)

:> :> :> : That's not "counting", that's the digits available for your use. :> :> : Open up a dozen of eggs and count them. The digit "0" is available :> : for use (you'll use it later, when you get to "ten"), but you don't :> : call the first egg "zero", you count it as "one", and unless you're :> : a total dolt, you'll end up at 12. :> :> I opened my egg container and started counting. Unfortunately it was :> empty. I ended up counting "zero" eggs. : Which isn't surprising, as you obviously have a big problem with : comprehension ("a dozen of eggs", as I said, not "my egg container" : as you so stupidly state.) If you counted "zero", then you have a : much bigger problem than being a roaring, flaming ***. Lighten up. It was simply meant as humour. How you could see this as a personal attack is beyond me. Stephen

>FYI Dave FYI Mork, my name's not Dave. I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to watch them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their silly fairy tale. That's a typo. I had a keyboard for a long time that had the apostrophe where the semi-colon is now and since I don't type properly I keep hitting it when I'm going for the apostrophe. I usually go through and change them all afterwards since I hit the right key about 5% of the time. I guess I missed that correction, thank you for noticing. BTW, you don't have to capitalize a word at the end of a sentence. I'll remember that, now. Thanks. But the important thing is that we can both spell it better than Dan Quayle. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>Cheers Chuck. <G> >Sure I'm not perfect with my grammar and spelling but I do remember one >quote from the bible. You forgot the comma after Sure. Isn't that, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? You forgot the comma after literary, too. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>LMAO!!!! Aren't paybacks great? BTW-it's capitalization. Except he does the same thing I do...he makes mistakes when he corrects people. All in good fun. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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>: Are you calling *me* a stubborn idiot? >: So how do YOU count the decade of the 90's? With decades, people count from >: "0". I.E. 1990 - 1999. For the millenium, people count from "1", because >: there was no year zero. 1901-2000, and the next millenium starts with 2001. >: Therefore, there are two different counting methods, which would seem to >: conflict with each other. Simple. No need to get hostile. >When did we change to a hundred year millenium? Is this to give us more >opportunities for gala New Year's festivities? Or is it so*** Clark >gets one more kick at the can?

Ouch! In my experiences, there's nothing much more embarrassing on the 'net than trying to prove you're not stupid, and in the process coming across more stupid than before! Eldred, I hope you're recovering OK! Yeah, yeah, I'm just kidding. Everyone makes mistakes and all that.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 22:45:56 +1100, Leaky_Valve >Why celebrate the fact that you are one year closer to the grave? >I can appreciate not forgetting one's birthdate, where we raise a glass >to the fact that we were born, but I cannot understand this almost >hysterical euphoria that occurs at the end/beginning of each year. Why? Maybe it'd help for you to think of it as a convenient celebration that we've *all* made it through another year. That's how I think of it anyway. If that doesn't work, you could also try celebrating the fact that everyone's entering a new year, chock full of possibilities and new experiences. For me, it's the birthday thing. So, I'm celebrating the fact that my parents put me on this earth? How self-centered is that? --mK

It looks like the thread flaming each other about when someone started counting AD or BC and how to name the next or past group of years is going to be longer than the thanks we gave to the folks at Papy for such a great program as GPL. It saddens me to think that when someone sees things a little differently than another that each view has to be defended till the death with personnal attacks and spelllling error bomb threats. The saddest part is how revealing these discussions are about the current state of our tolerance for each other and our differing views. I wonder if Christ was as intolerant as we seem to be. I wonder if he was intolerant of intolerance? Oh well, more than enough said. Take care all Larry

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> What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn? Or > are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I > hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn > hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you > have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame > me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! > Tony Long > P.S. Damn, I can still type.

The guy has simply showed himself to be an ignorant pedant. I'll not bite again. MS > Do you apply the same credo to other religions? They are all "fairy tales", are > they not? Care to inflame the Muslims, perchance? I believe that they are most > tolerant of those who "piss them off", as Mr. Rushdie will vouch. > > I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to watch > > them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their silly > > fairy tale. > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! > ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>Do you apply the same credo to other religions? Yes. As far as I am concerned, yes. Though I understand why it appeals to some people, I think the whole concept of religion is silly. I don't care who or what you worship. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>The guy has simply showed himself to be an ignorant pedant. I'll not bite >again. What am I ignorant of, exactly? ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>Sir. >As I reported earlier, I will not bite again. I respectfully ask you to take >your flame bait elsewhere. I'm not going anywhere, you can just killfile me if you don't like what I write. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>> BTW-it's capitalization. >Not necessarily, either is correct. More commonly "s" in English and >"z" in American English. Why does this happen, I wonder? Were Americans just feeling all haughty and said "Hah! we won't spell it *their* way, we'll change a letter...that'll show 'em." ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

Everyone is ignorant to some degree, except of course Jesus Christ. You might want to concern yourself more upon the fact that you are such a tiresome pedant. Personally, I think you should focus on your spiritual side prior to improving your social skills. "Daxe Rexford" wrote

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Do you apply the same credo to other religions? They are all "fairy tales", are they not? Care to inflame the Muslims, perchance? I believe that they are most tolerant of those who "piss them off", as Mr. Rushdie will vouch. > I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to watch > them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their silly > fairy tale. -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

Not necessarily, either is correct. More commonly "s" in English and "z" in American English. Cheers! John

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:25:40 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" >Isn't that, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? No, you had an extra space after "cast".... Cheers! John

Sir. As I reported earlier, I will not bite again. I respectfully ask you to take your flame bait elsewhere. MS

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>: Are you calling *me* a stubborn idiot? >: So how do YOU count the decade of the 90's? With decades, people count >from >: "0". I.E. 1990 - 1999. For the millenium, people count from "1", because >: there was no year zero. 1901-2000, and the next millenium starts with >2001. >: Therefore, there are two different counting methods, which would seem to >: conflict with each other. Simple. No need to get hostile. >When did we change to a hundred year millenium? Is this to give us more >opportunities for gala New Year's festivities? Or is it so*** Clark >gets one more kick at the can? >Stephen

<g> You knew what I *meant*...1001-2000... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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>Do you apply the same credo to other religions? They are all "fairy tales", >are >they not? Care to inflame the Muslims, perchance? I believe that they are >most >tolerant of those who "piss them off", as Mr. Rushdie will vouch. >> I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to watch >> them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their silly >> fairy tale.

The thing that puzzles me is that so many religions are *vastly* different, but each one thinks it's right. Well, they can't ALL be right, so most of them must be wrong... -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>FYI Dave >Use capitalisation in Christ. It's a name. >> christ. For some of us, it's not a name, it's a myth... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:25:40 -0500, "Daxe Rexford" > >Isn't that, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? > No, you had an extra space after "cast".... > Cheers! > John

Yeah but where is the red print??? -- //Chuck Kandler #70 //ChuckK or KS70 on Won.net //K&S Racing //http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/thepits/195 //The box said "Windows 0x5f or better", so I installed LINUX!

>Everyone is ignorant to some degree, except of course Jesus Christ. If believing that makes you happy, I'm glad for you. There are too many inconsistencies and unanswered questions involved (for starters) for my taste. You focus on that which you care about (which I think is tiresome and trivial and dogmatic) and I will focus on what I care about which you find tiresome and trivial and dogmatic. I promise you my spiritual side is likely much more well-explored than yours. We would probably disagree on the notion that spirituality must, by definition, include belief/faith/whatever in Jesus Christ. My decision to discount Christian mythology is not based in ignorance, but just the opposite. One essential difference in our spiritualities is that I don't insist mine includes objective 'truth.' ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

:> :>> BTW-it's capitalization. :> :>Not necessarily, either is correct. More commonly "s" in English and :>"z" in American English. : Why does this happen, I wonder? Were Americans just feeling all haughty and : said "Hah! we won't spell it *their* way, we'll change a letter...that'll : show 'em." : ~daxe I don't know, but it drives me up the wall. Every time I write a scientific paper for publication, I write it with a British spelling convention, being Canadian. If I decide later to submit to an american journal, I have to hunt down "extra" u's and add all those "zeeeees". Small matter, but irritating. Stephen

>Hit that nail in one. It was actually "phonetic" spelling in most cases, the >American line being that there were many instances (in the case of 'z', for example) >where the sound was more 'zzzz' than 'ssss'. There's some cases where I wish phonetic spelling were used, like the acronym 'GIF.' Some folks pronounce it as though the first letter were a J (like the peanut butter), but I pronounce it with a hard 'G' because the the first letter stands for 'graphic', not 'jraphic.' ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>Why, Mark? Can't come up with a reasonable argument to support Mr. Draxe? And >just how does my response make me an "ignorant pedant"? Can you enlighten me on >that one? I don't think he wants to play. I further think that was directed at me, so you're off the hook, LV. ~daxe >> The guy has simply showed himself to be an ignorant pedant. I'll not bite >> again. -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

>I don't know, but it drives me up the wall. Every time I write a >scientific paper for publication, I write it with a British spelling >convention, being Canadian. If I decide later to submit to an american >journal, I have to hunt down "extra" u's and add all those >"zeeeees". Small matter, but irritating. Too bad there wasn't some convention like specifying the character set in use in an HTML document. You could put the regional and language info in the heading of the paper and it would account for all those things. I may rag on people that can't spell, but at least I make exceptions for regional variations (if I am aware of them.) ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

You miss the point entirely Eldred. It is arguable whether Jesus H Christ existed as a divine entity or not. Personally, I couldn't care less being one of no particular faith. The point is that the guy cannot lambast people for minor spelling mistakes and then claim a deliberate abuse of the rules of English grammar as his right without reeking of hypocracy. Fictional character or not. Jesus Christ has capitals fixed to his name in the same way that David Copperfield, Robinson Crusoe or Mickey Mouse do. A proper noun is a proper noun, period. The fact that the guy stated that he used lower case letters deliberately to "piss off Christians" i my opinion simply speaks volumes as to his character - seemingly based on intolerance, hypocracy and a genuine desire to stir the proverbial stick standing in it. MS

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> >FYI Dave > >Use capitalisation in Christ. It's a name. > >> christ. > For some of us, it's not a name, it's a myth... > Eldred > -- > Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 > Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

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Not you. I was refering to him. My apologies if this was not clear. MS > Why, Mark? Can't come up with a reasonable argument to support Mr. Draxe? And > just how does my response make me an "ignorant pedant"? Can you enlighten me on > that one? > > The guy has simply showed himself to be an ignorant pedant. I'll not bite

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> > again. > > MS > > > Do you apply the same credo to other religions? They are all "fairy > > tales", are > > > they not? Care to inflame the Muslims, perchance? I believe that they

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> > most > > > tolerant of those who "piss them off", as Mr. Rushdie will vouch. > > > > I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to > > watch > > > > them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their

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>The point is that the guy cannot lambast people for minor spelling mistakes >and then claim a deliberate abuse of the rules of English grammar as his >right without reeking of hypocracy. Sure I can. There is a big difference between making a mistake because you don't know any better (in which case it isn't really a mistake, is it?) and doing something incorrectly on purpose for a specific reason. Ever notice that I don't capitalize my own name in my signature either? I'm not the first person to do that and I won't be the last. I didn't fail to capitalize it out of ignorance of the rules, so picking on people who are ignorant of the rules isn't hypocritical. I'm not intolerant of Christians, I just think a lot of them are pretty funny the way they get all foamed up about silly little things regarding their beliefs. I'm sure plenty of people think I'm pretty pathetic and silly for getting worked up about spelling errors and that's fine with me. I'll let you know when your opinion of me starts to matter. Don't hold your breath. Do I like to stir people up? Yep. I don't think being complacent about illiteracy is a good thing. I also like to be helpful sometimes and I do so in here on a regular basis. Like most people, I'm a mixed bag. As far as character, if you think that someone who likes to poke fun at religious people and occasionally pick on peoples spelling errors makes me a bad human being, then your criteria for character seems very shallow, IMHO. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

Why, Mark? Can't come up with a reasonable argument to support Mr. Draxe? And just how does my response make me an "ignorant pedant"? Can you enlighten me on that one?

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> The guy has simply showed himself to be an ignorant pedant. I'll not bite > again. > MS > > Do you apply the same credo to other religions? They are all "fairy > tales", are > > they not? Care to inflame the Muslims, perchance? I believe that they are > most > > tolerant of those who "piss them off", as Mr. Rushdie will vouch. > > > I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to > watch > > > them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their silly > > > fairy tale. > > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News > ==---------- > > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! > > ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers > ==-----

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Hang on....was your comment directed at me or Draxe Rexford?

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> Why, Mark? Can't come up with a reasonable argument to support Mr. Draxe? And > just how does my response make me an "ignorant pedant"? Can you enlighten me on > that one? > > The guy has simply showed himself to be an ignorant pedant. I'll not bite > > again. > > MS > > > Do you apply the same credo to other religions? They are all "fairy > > tales", are > > > they not? Care to inflame the Muslims, perchance? I believe that they are > > most > > > tolerant of those who "piss them off", as Mr. Rushdie will vouch. > > > > I use lower case delberately to***off christians. It's funny to > > watch > > > > them get all bent out of shape when someone doesn't buy into their silly > > > > fairy tale. > > > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News > > ==---------- > > > http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! > > > ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers > > ==-----

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Hit that nail in one. It was actually "phonetic" spelling in most cases, the American line being that there were many instances (in the case of 'z', for example) where the sound was more 'zzzz' than 'ssss'.

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>The fact that the guy stated that he used lower case letters deliberately to >"piss off Christians" i my opinion simply speaks volumes as to his >character - seemingly based on intolerance, hypocracy and a genuine desire >to stir the proverbial stick standing in it. Well, at the time I responded, I hadn't read his reasoning for it...<g> Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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>>Hit that nail in one. It was actually "phonetic" spelling in most cases, >the >>American line being that there were many instances (in the case of 'z', for >example) >>where the sound was more 'zzzz' than 'ssss'. >There's some cases where I wish phonetic spelling were used, like the >acronym 'GIF.' Some folks pronounce it as though the first letter were a J >(like the peanut butter), but I pronounce it with a hard 'G' because the the >first letter stands for 'graphic', not 'jraphic.'

I suppose you pronounce NASA "Nay-sa" for the same reason?

No. I don't think there are too many alternate pronunciations for NASA. It stands on its own as an acronym. To be honest with you I don't know what the exact phonetic rule is that could be applied to GIF, but I learned to read when phonetics were the method and I said 'GIF' (hard G) before I even knew what it stood for. You can find common examples of both. For instance, the liquor that is a distillate of juniper berries is pronounced as though it were spelled "Jin", but a job for a musician is called 'Gig.' In both cases you have the letter 'g' followed by the letter 'i' and then a consonant at the beginning of a syllable, but the 'g' is pronouced differently. If GIF is to be pronouced 'jif', then it would seem the word 'jiffy' should be spelled 'giffy.' The word 'giggle' is not pronouced as 'jiggle', etc. There probably is no real answer. Unlike NASA, you don't have thousands of people on television saying the word for years and years using one certain pronunciation to create a de facto correctness. Here is something that cites both but lists the 'g' one first: http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=Graphics%20Interchange... at I suppose it is ultimately personal preference. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

:> :>There's some cases where I wish phonetic spelling were used, like the :>acronym 'GIF.' Some folks pronounce it as though the first letter were a J :>(like the peanut butter), but I pronounce it with a hard 'G' because the the :>first letter stands for 'graphic', not 'jraphic.' :> : I suppose you pronounce NASA "Nay-sa" for the same reason? Actually, I always pronounced it "Nah-Sa", but I'm Canadian. Stephen

: : I suppose you pronounce NASA "Nay-sa" for the same reason? : Actually, I always pronounced it "Nah-Sa", but I'm Canadian. : Stephen And immediately after posting that, I realised that I had completely missed the point of your message. :) Stephen

Wow..... wow. I had no idea such a rabbit-chasing thread would result from a little J.D. induced joy. Let me revise and condense my original post (without the influence of Jack Daniels): Hi fellas, be happy. That's really all I wanted to say in the first post anyway. God bless. Tony Long P.S. Sorry for not checking my spelling. And yes I know the God bless statement doesn't bode well with the obscenities in my first post; thank God for His forgiving grace (what a great example). Now, I'm gonna turn some laps somewhere!

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> What the hell? Am I the only one with a working PC on New Years morn? Or > are all of you just light-weights? Happy freaking New Mellinium peeps! I > hope you all crash hard in turn one just because you're all too damn > hungover to judge the corner! Yes, I'm stoned on Jack Daniels, so you > have no excuse; unless you're all f***ing right now. Buzz me, or flame > me, hell I don't care, I made it!!! Have fun! > Tony Long > P.S. Damn, I can still type.

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>: : I suppose you pronounce NASA "Nay-sa" for the same reason? >: Actually, I always pronounced it "Nah-Sa", but I'm Canadian. >: Stephen >And immediately after posting that, I realised that I had completely >missed the point of your message. :)

Heh, wouldn't be the first time-- I'm a little obtuse at times... --mK who pronounces it "Jiff", btw.