Comments interspersed below -----Original Message----- From: Mark Willis To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [OT][JOKE][L.S.M.F.T.][Ornaments] >On this same thread, my turn; Obligatory spelling/syntax check {purely >for teasing purposes, of course!}, in progress here. > >Thomas McGahee wrote: >> >> Remarks intersperesed below within text... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James Michael Newton >> To: Thomas McGahee ; Pic Microcontroller Discussion >> List >> Date: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 3:45 PM >> Subject: RE: Ornaments are Off Topic??? [JOKE] [OT] >> >> >I got the following post direct from Thomas.... I thought that everyone >> >would enjoy it. >> >> That's it. Make me look like a total fool in front of the entire PIC list! >> Take an e-mail that was sent to you privately and in deep confidence, >> meant only to be seen by you, and expose it to the whole world >> for ridicule. Now you have REALLY gone to far! > >That's "too far", not "to far". "to far" would imply something entirely >different than "too far". 'WARNING PICL91872341: English Syntax error >on line 0018, continuing harassment' Picky, picky, picky! But then again, little minds have nothing else to do than find fault with others. *I* of course, am above such drivel. You will never find me stooping so low as to be commenting on someone's spelling and grammar errors. > >> >It would be allot funnier if I hadn't received a few emails that are so >> >close to it but from people who are entirely serious. (You know who you are >> >) I notice that you didn't mention the blatant spelling error in the sentence above. I take it you are in cahoots with the Administrators???? >> >> What!? Someone has been writing to you about me? Complaining perhaps? >> I demand to know their names! Tell me who their ISPs are. I have a couple >> of really nasty e-mails to compose... > >Oh, c'mon, look up their ISP's based on their e-mail addresses, sheesh, >you want us to have ALL the fun? You can find their upstreams too, >see my anti-spam posts I never bother to keep copies of your posts. If I ever want information on anything I don't have to look it up. All I have to do is send a post to the entire PIC list telling folks what I want, and some well-meaning person who has more free-time than I do will do all the leg work for me. > >I'm definitely one of the people harassing James; Though, until now, I >hadn't been talking about you behind your back. You're now an open >topic for discussion, though See, I KNEW it! A full-blown conspiracy!!! > >> >Thomas, you have a talent for knowing what the slightly lower forms of >> >humanity will say and what does that say about you??? >> >HUMMM??? and then making fun of it just enough to keep the reader >> >going. Frustrated writer perhaps? >> >> Lower forms of humanity? Why, I have never been so grossly insulted in my >> entire life! (Well, there was that one time when... but that is old >> history. Here you are making deep, fresh wounds and then rubbing the salt >> in.) > >He IS an Admin; Jory & I are "breaking him down" Oops, IN, that's >"breaking him IN". Darn typos! Must be working... Working? Gee, I thought that you Administration guys were just fellows that had nothing better to do with your time, so you sit around all day playing God at your computer terminals. > >> And what do you have against Church Ladies? And why do you keep making >> sly remarks and enclosing them in angle brackets? Are you trying to get >> me mad or something? Is it some kind of secret code known just between >> you and your cronies? > >It's a subliminal Admin thing designed to get all the PICList members to >send us their money. Hasn't worked yet, darnit! (Well, except for >one, but he expects me to do something for him in return for the money >he sends. Oh, Well.) I have managed to get PICList members to send me >huge shipments of parts, but, sadly, none that I'm not then expected to >ship off somewhere else. Must be those church ladies' fault, they're >thinking in hymns at me or something, I think. Who is the guy that sends you money? I want to add him to my personal list of people to be spammed by my next mass mailing. I have a program that goes through all the PIC list mail and extracts e-mail addresses, but I want to put *that* guy's address at the top of my list! Eventually I hope to be able to sell the list to other mass merchandizers. > >> I'll have you know that NO ONE has ever accused me of being a writer before. >> That is a new insult that I will not soon forget. I will write down in my >> Daily Log so that I don't accidentally forget... > >Jory, I think James is getting there Oh, so this is all part of James' Admin training, eh? I'm making a note of that in my Daily Log. This adds even more fuel to my conspiracy theory... > >> >I'm, uh... unfamiliar with the title: L.S.M.F.T. What, exactly, does that >> >bestow upon its owner? >> >> Sheesh! Here, I'll carefully spell out the meanings of all the abbreviations >> after my name: >> >> B.A. = Bachelor of Arts. A single person who likes to go the the movies a >> lot. >> >> M.Div. = Master of Divinity. A person who has become expert at eating >> a particular kind of confectionary candy. >> >> PhD. = Doctor of Philosophy. Not a "real" doctor, though capable of >> determining >> what type of thermometer goes where. (If Doctors of Philosophy >> are so smart, how come they have the D part after the Ph part?) >> It should really be DP, but since that might accidentally be >> pronounced as DIP by some poor unknowing slob, they keep it PhD. >> (Some of my best friends are PhD's. I apologize, but sometimes >> the truth hurts). >> >> B.V.D. = A brand of underwear. Not to be confused with Hanes or >> Fruit of the Loom. You didn't ask about this one. Did you >> get it, or had you surmised it to be something else, James? >> >> L.S.M.F.T. = Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. A cutesy advertising slogan >> used in the mid-sixties to try to entice young people to >> fill their lungs with nicotine and tar and other tobacco >> derivatives. I use this after my name merely to confuse and >> befuddle people. Only really intelligent people ever ask me >> what B.V.D. and L.S.M.F.T. mean. The stuffed shirts are always >> too afraid to admit ignorance of ANYTHING, so they just >> nod their heads and suck on their pipes, as internally I am >> laughing my guts out. No offense meant to any pipe smokers >> out there. >> >> End of remarks. >> >> The Most Reverend Thomas M. McGahee >> B.A. M.Div. PhD. B.V.D. L.S.M.F.T. >> >> Well, OK, I admit it, I am really only >> Fr. Tom McGahee >> B.A. M.Div. >> >> I lied about the PhD. B.V.D. and L.S.M.F.T. parts. >> But only because I wanted you to accept me as someone of vastly >> superior intelligence. It won't happen again (soon). > >See, the subliminal stuff's working - got him to cave in after only a >short bluff! Are you the same guy that's been beaming stuff into my head? I know that you and others are constantly trying to monitor my thoughts, but I have found a way to defeat you! I now wear a large stainless steel soup bowl on my heads at all times, and I make sure that it is always properly grounded!! > >Hey, happy Christmas/New Years/Holidays/whatever, all > > Mark > >-- >I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. >(For private individuals at cost; ask.) > Note the crass commercialism of this guy. He blatantly uses the PIC list to advertise his "services". I wouldn't mind if he was providing an absolutely free service, but something in my gut tells me that he is accepting monetary remuneration for his services. I think the PIC list should charge him and others like him a hefty advertising fee. By the way, if anyone is still interested in buying any EL Inverters for powering LCD backlights, just contact me off-list. $5 to $6 each depending on quantity. Fr. Tom McGahee