Thomas McGahee wrote: > 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. Good. Leaves me with no competition, just the way I like it! > >> >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???? Uhm, are the admins in cahoots with themselves!? He's been assimilated, sure We'll upgrade his firmware, the intersentence space DLL modole had a bug in rev. 373B4322G54A, due to an ex-microsoft developer's being assimilated. Tooks days to fix the bad code resulting from that > >> 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. Good strategy, hope you get fast responses to your "help demands"! (Not saying that I hope you get what you want, that's up to the posters ) > >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!!! "Nuuuuuthingk! Nuuuuuthingk! I know Nuuuuuuthingk!" > >> >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. We resemble that I was referring to James' conditioning, not MY work habits, which resemble being a slave to the cats here, too much of the time. > >> 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. That would be telling. Here's a good contributor that I will share; these guys always send ME money when I send them UCE asking for money; Strange e-mail username, takes all kinds though! Send to , tell them I sent you > >> 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... Want some stove pellets for that? They burn pretty well and cleanly, just producing a little ash; I have some to spare, since the stove here's not always working A nice auger run off a PIC would feed these pretty well; You could use a stepper motor to run the auger, and I'm sure you can find someone to tell you how to connect the stepper to a PIC Stick a capacitance meter in there as well, to sense when you're close, for safety - Turn the auger off so you don't get fed to your own conspiracy theory as fuel. That'd be bad > >> >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!! You need to watch it, we have learned how to get it to resonate (by using a transient), and then read the re-radiated EMF from that. Hope no-one tells you that attaching 2 large horns to the bowl will dissipate the EMF, making it impossible for us to read your thoughts; Oops. Oh, well (Wondering how you wear one bowl on your "heads", but I'll just note that and move on past, and then back away carefully ) > >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. I'll talk to myself about this proposal (Hmmm, if I collect from myself and then bribe myself to not collect from myself, naah, that wouldn't work. ) Hey, have to buy all this cat food for the beasties that own me; And have to buy a Cat-approved Christmas tree, so they can posess, er, infest, er, inhabit it. You know how strong a tree it takes, for an 18-pound cat to climb? Not a little weakling tree. Tough getting that through the door here! Come-alongs are a GREAT tool, I've learned. It takes a lot of sending 5.0688 MHz crystals overseas for free, to pay for all this furry partnership - now hold it, why'm I doing THAT, that's a net loss!? > 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. Oh, FOIGHN, the pot calling the kettle black, is it? Yeesh! At least he's saying to do these dark transactions off-list, not on the list > Fr. Tom McGahee Mark "Teasing is a 3-edged sword" -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.)