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From: Lars Chance on 25 Mar 2010 09:25 bikerbetty wrote: > not too sure how I feel about all this, > but extremely gratified - totally blown away, in fact - > by the support of the Betty Faction on the panel. > Yay the Betty-Faction! -- Elsie.
From: F Murtz on 25 Mar 2010 09:27 Lars Chance wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:55:26 +1100, F Murtz wrote: >> >>> OT. does a sysadmin know how to use smileys with sea monkey? cause I >>> don't and I would like to. >> >> http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/mailnewsfaq/Emoticons >> > You still think "smileys" are clever in 2010?? > > (and actually want to litter newsgroup posts with them?) > Sometimes tells others that you are not really serious.
From: Lars Chance on 25 Mar 2010 10:04 F Murtz wrote: > Lars Chance wrote: >> You still think "smileys" are clever in 2010?? >> >> (and actually want to litter newsgroup posts with them?) >> > Sometimes tells others that you are not really serious. > Plain English has been doing that for centuries. Normal children don't have to draw pictures to illustrate their tales after they're 10 or so. -- Elsie.
From: G-S on 25 Mar 2010 16:15 bikerbetty wrote: > > betty, not too sure how I feel about all this, > but extremely gratified - totally blown away, in fact - > by the support of the Betty Faction on the panel. > I'm sort of thinking "Yes Minister" the more I hear about this school :) G-S
From: G-S on 25 Mar 2010 16:23
Iain Chalmers wrote: > In article <slrnhqll4d.1p55.zebeej(a)gmail.com>, > Zebee Johnstone <zebeej(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On the other hand, my SCA experience is that if you give the male of >> the species a chance to dress brightly and show off magnificent >> clothes most of them will. > > Objection! "The male of the species", and "the subset of males of the > species who show up to SCA events" are _not_ identical sets. > > big > That may be technically accurate, but there are other sub groups which exhibit similar behaviour. In recent years various SF gatherings have been increasingly subject to the trend called 'cosplay' which is in effect 'showing off in magnificent clothes'. To the point where it's taken on it's own life separate and distinct from the conventions. I don't think that just because Zebees example is a subgroup that you can assume the tendency isn't widespread, or else why do similar effects occur amongst unrelated groups? G-S |