From: Road Glidin' Don on 5 Feb 2010 14:43 On Feb 4, 10:50 pm, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > On Feb 4, 8:53 pm, "Road Glidin' Don" <d.lan...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 4, 8:40 pm, åºå¯º <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 4, 6:58 pm, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > > > > So what kind of bike and what kind of work were you doing ? > > > > I am *so* not going there. > > > > Any evidence that I could possibly give would be > > > ...result in someone contacting Bob Nixon and finding out that you > > made it up. > > Hi Don > > If this isn't a terrible imposition, what kind of motorcycle > do you own and what kind of work do you do on it yourself ? > > If this is a private matter and you don't want to talk about > it, please excuse my snooping around in your personal > business. I just figured that since this was a motorcycle > group, perhaps you might feel like sharing. > > If you want to take the 5th, we'll all understand. I do > so hope you won't feel like I'm picking on you by > asking this question. Heh, heh, heh. I'm so hurt and deeply offended now! http://www.xidos.ca/Technical/tabid/68/Default.aspx
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 5 Feb 2010 14:45 On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:34:53 -0700, Bob Myers <nospamplease(a)address.invalid> wrote in <hkhs0b$o7v$1(a)usenet01.boi.hp.com>: > Road Glidin' Don wrote: >> On Feb 5, 10:47 am, ?? <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> No, what I'm telling you is that I will not allow you to pick my >>> brain >> Maybe reconsider that. I'm sure any of us could pick a higher- >> functioning one for you. >> Mind you, it would probably involve some innocent pig being >> sacrificed... > Don, I think you meant "lizard" or possibly "garden slug" > in the above. A pig is a fairly intelligent creature, and I have > serious doubts that a pig's brain would fit in that application. > Oh, you could probably find a way to jam it in there, but > immediately afterwards it would no doubt ruin itself in the > attempt to leap out of that particular skull. After all, there are > some things that a pig just won't do. #"You can tell a man who boozes, by the company he chooses!" #...Then the pig got up and slowly walked away... -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: Twibil on 5 Feb 2010 15:07 On Feb 5, 9:47 am, åºå¯º <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > No, what I'm telling you is that I will not allow you to pick my brain.......... (snip) Already been done. There's even a well-known movie scene about the episode. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [pause, then] No. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby Someone. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby Normal. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal? Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. The point being -in both cases: you can't harvest something that isn't there.
From: S'mee on 5 Feb 2010 16:57 On Feb 5, 12:23 pm, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 4:42 am, åºå¯º <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > It sounds like you really don't have as much confidence in your > > ability to do mechanical work as I have... > > That may well be. > > I also doubt that anybody else in the world has as > much confidence in your ability to do mechanical > work as you have. You owe me two things... 1) a clean monitor...there is coffee and german chocolate cake all over it now. I wont ask you to clean the sinuses out... 2) a new (digital) sarcasm meter. When it exploded is when the monitor issue came up...bit of a shame really, it was a vintage Marshall tube driven stand alone sarcasm meter.
From: S'mee on 5 Feb 2010 17:00
On Feb 5, 1:07 pm, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 9:47 am, åºå¯º <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > No, what I'm telling you is that I will not allow you to pick my brain..........  (snip) > > Already been done.  There's even a well-known movie scene about the > episode. > > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. > Was it Hans Delbruck's? > Igor: [pause, then] No. > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me > whose brain I DID put in? > Igor: Then you won't be angry? > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. > Igor: Abby Someone. > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who? > Igor: Abby Normal. > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal? > Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. > > The point being -in both cases: you can't harvest something that isn't > there. So if his skull were to accidentally crack open one would hear a loud POP as the air rushes in, so as to fill a massive vacume? That would explain much... |