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Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2008Need A Hobby?
A man needs a hobby. I guess I'm not well-rounded. I seldom take a vacation (never, come to think of it), and I don't spend a whole lot of time in church, though I do not consider myself a pagan. All I do is work to pay a bill, and I'm approximately forty eight hours ahead of the rest of my bills. Based on this, I recently came to the conclusion that much of life is pointless. I need a hobby. I need a hobby, something besides the simple desire for more sex. That brings up an interesting point. Why is it that sex, is not considered a hobby? Maybe it's because you don't use glue, or epoxy, like in making a model airplane. Then again, maybe you do. In any event, I'm trying to find myself a hobby, something at which I can relax, and find personal enrichment. Here are some possibilities that I have actually acted upon, or have been actively mulling over: Like most suburbanites, I live in fairly close proximity to other houses. The elderly lady in the house across from me stares at my room window a lot. We've all seen people who stare. Maybe she's just bored. But I've come to the conclusion...she's watching me for some reason. There can only be one possibility. She's watching me dress. And undress. After a week of this, I decided to give her her money's worth. I now do two nightly shows, and one in the morning.....at my window. My dressing and undressing shows. I go into a slow dance routine, and flex my huge, rugged jungle muscles. I recently purchased a bow tie like the kind used by Chippendale's male dancers, and I wear an old high school jock strap from PE. I'm thinking of adding a strobe light to expand the act. This is a hobby that's better than gin rummy. And, you're making people happy. Another potential hobby involves the clever use of empty toilet paper rolls, you know, those little cardboard cylinders once the toilet paper is used up. I have long http://www.dontplayplay.com/html/Humor/20060929/25462.html Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? -- Ray > Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? Nope. See the thread title above. "N/T" means "no text". >> Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? > >Nope. See the thread title above. "N/T" means "no text". Spell it out next time or suffer the same fate. Bwahahahaha! Down here, NT means Northern Territory. -- Ray On 1/28/2008 7:42 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >>> Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Down here, NT means Northern Territory. You're coming perilously close to sounding like your good friend Greg, "mate". >On 1/28/2008 7:42 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >You're coming perilously close to sounding like your good friend Greg, >"mate". Could be worse. N/T also refers to a Windows flavor. -- Ray On 1/28/2008 7:54 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >>On 1/28/2008 7:42 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Could be worse. N/T also refers to a Windows flavor. Nope, that be NT. Next? > Could be worse. N/T also refers to a Windows flavor. The absolute worst would be "No testicles". -- Cheers Roger T. Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:- http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/ Latitude: 48° 25' North Longitude: 123° 21' West >> Could be worse. N/T also refers to a Windows flavor. > >The absolute worst would be "No testicles". . . . he writes, with a high pitched voice . . . -- Ray On 1/28/2008 9:48 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >>> Could be worse. N/T also refers to a Windows flavor. >> >>The absolute worst would be "No testicles". > > . . . he writes, with a high pitched voice . . . No, no, no: it's one of those "Tom Swifties" (remember those?): "Who stole my jockstrap?", he demanded testily. > . . . he writes, with a high pitched voice . . . Mmmm........exactly how does one *do* that? Write above the staff, perhaps? ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Pete > On 1/28/2008 7:42 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > You're coming perilously close to sounding like your good friend Greg, > "mate". You need to learn to distinguish between my actual postings and those postings Ray made but claimed to be mine! >>> Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? >> >>Nope. See the thread title above. "N/T" means "no text". > > Spell it out next time or suffer the same fate. Bwahahahaha! (Shrug) > Down here, NT means Northern Territory. If you want to show off your ignorance of posting contractions it's no skin off my nose. N/T (not NT) has meant "no text" in international newsgroups for as long as I've been posting, which is about ten years now. Of course, I *did* pick it up from postings on motorcycle groups, but I find it difficult to imagine that bikers as a whole are more literate than model railroaders... (More adventurous? Perhaps. More literate? Unlikely.) LMAO, Pete > If you want to show off your ignorance of posting contractions it's no skin > off my nose. N/T (not NT) has meant "no text" in international newsgroups [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > it difficult to imagine that bikers as a whole are more literate than model > railroaders... Well, I have never seen it in many years and many groups. However one could understand that contributors to motorcycle groups would find getting past the subject line very challenging and would therefore need to resort to N/T. > Well, I have never seen it in many years and many groups. Well, some of us live and learn. Some of us just live.* Pete *Except for Aussies; who seem to live in order to complain.** **About trivia. >> If you want to show off your ignorance of posting contractions it's no skin >> off my nose. N/T (not NT) has meant "no text" in international newsgroups [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > getting past the subject line very challenging and would therefore need > to resort to N/T. What can you expect from folks who have to go to the [e.g.] Harley store to get something exciting between their legs?  SignatureSteve >>>> Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? >>> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >LMAO, Laugh all you want. Most people who have been around for ten years or more know to use alt.test for a test post. Did you see your subject? Was that some sort of secret code or something? "No, we've already got one." What's that supposed to mean? -- Ray On 1/28/2008 9:57 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >>>>> Did you forget something? Like the body of your post? >>>> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > "No, we've already got one." What's that supposed to mean? Ray, you really are thick as a brick. Look up, man, look up ... >>LMAO, > > Laugh all you want. Most people who have been around for ten years > or more know to use alt.test for a test post. Uh, it wasn't a test post. > Did you see your subject? Of course not. I *always* type with my eyes closed... Ahem. > Was that some sort of secret code or > something? > > "No, we've already got one." What's that supposed to mean? Oh dear. Either you simply *are* thick as a brick (hereafter known as the Nebenzahl theorem) or -perhaps more likely- your newsreader failed to pick up the OP I was replying to: "Need A Hobby?"; which was a none-too-clever troll posted by someone with too much time on their hands. Now; what's *your* excuse? >> "No, we've already got one." What's that supposed to mean? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Now; what's *your* excuse? And you are making the assumption that everyone's Usenet reader displays in the same way as yours. My news reader picked up the other post, but displayed it below this thread, so your point was lost on me until I saw your explanation. I don't think I'm thick or that I have a defective news reader. Maybe you'll post the Roehring rules for Usenet reading so that we can all enjoy your witticisms in the future. :-) Jim. > And you are making the assumption that everyone's Usenet reader > displays in the same way as yours. My news reader picked up the > other post, but displayed it below this thread, so your point was > lost on me until I saw your explanation. I don't think I'm thick or > that I have a defective news reader. Sounds like a setup problem. RTFM? PS - which is your newsreader - a real newsreader or some part of Outhouse Excess or Mozilla/Thunderbird e-mail? SignatureSteve On 1/29/2008 10:21 AM Steve Caple spake thus: >> And you are making the assumption that everyone's Usenet reader >> displays in the same way as yours. My news reader picked up the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > PS - which is your newsreader - a real newsreader or some part of > Outhouse Excess or Mozilla/Thunderbird e-mail? He's using Forte Agent, as anyone with a *real* news client will be easily able to determine. > On 1/29/2008 10:21 AM Steve Caple spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > He's using Forte Agent, as anyone with a *real* news client will be > easily able to determine. Only if they care enough to press H and read his header. SignatureSteve > And you are making the assumption that everyone's Usenet reader > displays in the same way as yours. You mean there's a newsreader out there that normally displays posts out of sequence rather than putting the answers *after* the OPs in the order they were posted? If you've really got one like that, I'd suggest getting another. That way you can not only enjoy my witticisms, but can make sense of all the other threads as well. Pete >> And you are making the assumption that everyone's Usenet reader >> displays in the same way as yours. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Pete There are newsreaders out there with which you can choose the display order... > There are newsreaders out there with which you can choose the display > order... I know. Mine included. But how could anyone set up a display order where the later posts came first, and then not *know* that it was doing so and read them in the wrong order? The problem here seems to be that Jim's newsreader program follows threads by title rather than by which post follows which in a given sequence, and I don't see that as being *my* problem. Pete > I know. Mine included. But how could anyone set up a display order where the > later posts came first, and then not *know* that it was doing so and read [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > by title rather than by which post follows which in a given sequence, and I > don't see that as being *my* problem. The problem is that if an older post has already been disposed of and is no longer displayed, a new post with a different title and no content is unrelated to anything whatever. >> The problem here seems to be that Jim's newsreader program follows >> threads by title rather than by which post follows which in a given [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > no longer displayed, a new post with a different title and no content is > unrelated to anything whatever. So? I've had that happen to me multiple times, and if I can't figure out a post's origins from the context I don't let it bother me; I move on to the next thread. After all, what we do here is not going to affect global warming one way or another. On 1/29/2008 11:35 PM P. Roehling spake thus: >>> The problem here seems to be that Jim's newsreader program follows >>> threads by title rather than by which post follows which in a given [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > After all, what we do here is not going to affect global warming one way or > another. Well, it might affect it negatively; hot air and all, dontcha know (not to mention gazillions of tortured electrons). >> After all, what we do here is not going to affect global warming one way >> or another. > > Well, it might affect it negatively; hot air and all, dontcha know (not to > mention gazillions of tortured electrons). According to the Bush Doctrine, electrons are not subject to torture unless they come from militant Moslem websites; AKA "Anyone we suspect of being disloyal. Such as liberals. And who the hell are *YOU* looking at, pal?" Sleep well. Pete >You mean there's a newsreader out there that normally displays posts out of >sequence rather than putting the answers *after* the OPs in the order they >were posted? If you've really got one like that, I'd suggest getting >another. It may surprise you to know that there are newsreaders with choices as to how messages are displayed, unlike Outlook Express. I use Forte Agent and I choose to display my threads with the newest ones at the top. There are several options for thread and message display and one of them would suit your requirements, but I haven't got a Roehling detector to switch automatically to that method when one of your gems appears. Also, when I read a message in Agent, it gets marked read. When I leave the group and return, I have Agent set to not display read messages - I can choose to display previously read messages if I wish. You responded to the post about 90 minutes after it first appeared according to the post times on my reader. So there was more than enough time for me to have exited and returned to r.m.r. several times and previously read messages would not have shown. So even if my reader had been set to display messages in the order which you required, the earlier message would not have shown. >That way you can not only enjoy my witticisms, but can make sense of all the >other threads as well. Tell you what, you tell us what you expect us all to do - that's all of us on the Usenet worldwide who might chance to read your posts. There could be millions of us, and we would all have to get Outlook Express and set it up the way you require. Go for it - Roehling Rulez :-) Jim. > Also, when I read a message in Agent, it gets marked read. When I > leave the group and return, I have Agent set to not display read [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > enough time for me to have exited and returned to r.m.r. several times > and previously read messages would not have shown. Similarly with other newsreaders. What a waste to keep displaying already-read (or chosen-not-to-be-read) messages! It's not as though the wisdom (or even the existence) of a typical newsgroup message warrants repeated display. On 1/29/2008 1:41 PM Eddie Oliver spake thus: >> Also, when I read a message in Agent, it gets marked read. When I >> leave the group and return, I have Agent set to not display read [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > wisdom (or even the existence) of a typical newsgroup message warrants > repeated display. I disagree; to me, it would be a waste *not* to see already-read messages. How on earth can you know the context of messages otherwise? I mean the display of already-read *subject headers* in a list; isn't this the default display for most newsreaders? I know it is for Thunderbird. >> Similarly with other newsreaders. What a waste to keep displaying >> already-read (or chosen-not-to-be-read) messages! It's not as though [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I disagree; to me, it would be a waste *not* to see already-read > messages. How on earth can you know the context of messages otherwise? Because people should quote the specific bit being followed up, just as in these messages. > I > mean the display of already-read *subject headers* in a list; isn't this > the default display for most newsreaders? I know it is for Thunderbird. The View menu offers many options. Default displays are for those who don't think for themselves. On 1/29/2008 8:15 PM Eddie Oliver spake thus: > The View menu offers many options. Default displays are for those who > don't think for themselves. Hmm; I like the default message-list display in T-bird; suits me fine. Does that mean I can't think for myself? > On 1/29/2008 8:15 PM Eddie Oliver spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Hmm; I like the default message-list display in T-bird; suits me fine. > Does that mean I can't think for myself? Depends whether you have evaluated the alternatives. If you make a conscious decision to keep a huge amount of junk on the screen, that is of course your choice, but if you just rely on the default blindly, you get what you deserve. "Eddie Oliver" <eoliverNONSENSE@DOWNWITHSPAMiprimus.com.au> wrote in message > Default displays are for those who don't think for themselves. Utter nonsense. >If you want to show off your ignorance of posting contractions it's no skin >off my nose. N/T (not NT) has meant "no text" in international newsgroups >for as long as I've been posting, which is about ten years now. The "no text" convention is never, ever to be used on usenet, because it's actually impossible to have a post with no text. Save it for web forums, and even then don't do it. * Signature* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. > The "no text" convention is never, ever to be used on usenet, because > it's actually impossible to have a post with no text. Save it for web > forums, and even then don't do it. Shrug. I don't see any steeking badges around here. One what ? Klaus SignatureModelbane Europas hjemmeside: http://www.modelbaneeuropa.hadsten.dk Modeltog, internet, gratis spambekæmpelse, elektronik og andet: http://home6.inet.tele.dk/moppe On 1/29/2008 6:37 AM Klaus D. Mikkelsen spake thus: > One what ? I think you've figured this out by now; let me guess: your mail/news client (Mozilla 4.51 [da]) must start a new thread when the subject line changes, right? Kind of strange behavior: my Mozilla client (Thunderbird) shows all messages in the same thread, regardless of changed subject lines. (Google Groups also has this strange quirk, where a changed subject line initiates a new thread.) > I think you've figured this out by now; let me guess: your mail/news > client (Mozilla 4.51 [da]) must start a new thread when the subject line > changes, right? No, it keeps track of the msg-id's end threads them by it. I have discovered the reference to the original posting but it doesn't come up (rubbish on my server??) as a beginning of a thread. But all this shows how important qouting is.... Klaus SignatureModelbane Europas hjemmeside: http://www.modelbaneeuropa.hadsten.dk Modeltog, internet, gratis spambekæmpelse, elektronik og andet: http://home6.inet.tele.dk/moppe |
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