On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:33 -0600, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:33:41 -0600, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:19:37 -0600, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:35:37 -0800, Mark Fox wrote:

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My reply was posted to the newsgroup, moron.  It was not sent to you,
moron.  It was addressing the words quoted at the top of the reply.  If
you are too stupid to understand this then perhaps you should get
yourself a basic tutorial in internet technology.

I love it when people who don't understand Usenet lecture people who do...

...and on top of that, he's an Earthlink abuser right here in Houston,
too.  (Maybe he was in that 13-car crash on the Southwest Freeway earlier
today.)

See? The pollution in Houston *is getting really, really bad. It's eating
brain cells!

Of course, those of us who have been here as long as I have (since 1965)
have evolved a little immunity...;-)

I was wondering about those gill looking things but I was too polite to
say anything...

No problem...after you've spent enough time around here, you don't even notice
them.  (At least where we live is about 22 meters above MSL...think of the
unlucky ones down in Brazoria and Matagorda.)

I rather like being *from Houston but I don't think I could live there (I
guess "live there again" but we moved when I was all of one year old, I
don't remember a thing). All its life that city has been quirky as hell.
But, damn, the air has gotten bad.

Even when I was a kid going to visit relatives, I'd get a sore throat
before we got past the airport (or where it would be... I forget when it
was built). 

Yeesh...

-- 
Mark K. Bilbo
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language 
is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't 
just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other 
languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their 
pockets for new vocabulary." -James D. Nicoll