On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:02:30 +0200, in a place far, far away, nmp
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Op Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:43:43 +0000, schreef Rand Simberg:

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:34:43 +0200, in a place far, far away, nmp
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:


Zeurpiet.

Calling people names of which few in the newsgroup have any idea as to
the meaning is a waste of bandwidth. And childish.

Zeurpiet = whiner

I knew that. Or at least something similar to that, though I'm not
sure that's the most precise word English word for it. And now that
you've told us, everyone can see that it wasn't even appropriate.