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Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see
what's going on.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see
what's going on.

Pat

Eye reed u lowd and clee-ah.

Alan Erskine wrote:
Eye reed u lowd and clee-ah.


Test message showed up, but dates and times of messages are all screwed up.
Earlier today "most recent posting" was from early 2007.
Probably something down at my ISP, but if worst comes to worst, I'll
just ditch the whole Thunderbird file and re-install it.
Either that, or simply remove all newsgroup messages and start out all
over again.
Still no word from OM for five days now, which is troubling.
He has his laptop with him in the hospital, and some means of getting
and sending email. His last message was _after_ the amputation, and I've
been forwarding all the get-well-soon postings to him, so no update on
his condition for that long suggests trouble.
I'm back to checking the Austin obituaries day-by-day again. :-(
But you know him - even dead, you'd have to drive a stake through his
heart and stuff his mouth with garlic just to keep him quiet.
OM didn't only break the mold; there was no mold ever used to make him.
Near as I can figure, some sort of strange trans-dimensional lightning
bolt came out of a clear sky and hit his mother while she was carrying
him in her womb, and the rest is twisted history indeed.
The guy is a episode of "The X-Files" in his own right. :-D

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Still no word from OM for five days now, which is troubling.
He has his laptop with him in the hospital, and some means of getting
and sending email. His last message was _after_ the amputation, and I've
been forwarding all the get-well-soon postings to him, so no update on
his condition for that long suggests trouble.
I'm back to checking the Austin obituaries day-by-day again. :-(
But you know him - even dead, you'd have to drive a stake through his
heart and stuff his mouth with garlic just to keep him quiet.
OM didn't only break the mold; there was no mold ever used to make him.
Near as I can figure, some sort of strange trans-dimensional lightning
bolt came out of a clear sky and hit his mother while she was carrying
him in her womb, and the rest is twisted history indeed.
The guy is a episode of "The X-Files" in his own right. :-D

Pat

Mosely wasn't "carried in a womb"; he was manufactured in a lab, by some
crazed scientist. I mean, only a crazed scientist would create something
like OM and release it upon the world! ;-)

All-in-all, I hope he's ok. Try phoning/emailing the hospital?

Alan Erskine wrote:

Mosely wasn't "carried in a womb"; he was manufactured in a lab, by some
crazed scientist. I mean, only a crazed scientist would create something
like OM and release it upon the world!

Near as I can figure, he was a unexpected after-effect of the post WW II
nuclear bomb tests in the southwestern deserts, like the giant ants in
"Them!".
Whatever he is, and wherever he came from, he's as indispensable as
Godzilla is to Tokyo.

;-)All-in-all, I hope he's ok. Try phning/emailing the hospital?

No data as to where he's actually at.
Probably somewhere in Area 54. :-D


Pat

Alan Erskine wrote:

crazed scientist. I mean, only a crazed scientist would create something
like OM and release it upon the world!

Near as I can figure, he was a unexpected after-effect of the post WW II
nuclear bomb tests in the southwestern deserts, like the giant ants in
"Them!".
Whatever he is, and wherever he came from, he's as indispensable as
Godzilla is to Tokyo.

;-)All-in-all, I hope he's ok. Try phning/emailing the hospital?

No data as to where he's actually at.
Probably somewhere in Area 51. :-D


Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Whatever he is, and wherever he came from, he's as indispensable as
Godzilla is to Tokyo.

There's not enough artillery in the world to get rid of OM (not that some
wouldn't like to try...)

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see
what's going on.

Posting is fine. What software are you using?

Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein

Jeff Findley wrote:
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see
what's going on.


Posting is fine. What software are you using?


Thunderbird. It seems to have fixed itself. I flushed out the old
messages, and the new stuff is coming in okay now.
One oddity; I resubscribed to sci.space.moderated and my old messages
there showed up as having been written by Rand Simberg, which I'm sure
he would find amusing. :-D

Pat

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:54:12 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



Jeff Findley wrote:
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
news:gN2dnaukFpkgtp3VnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@northdakotat elephone...

Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see
what's going on.


Posting is fine. What software are you using?


Thunderbird. It seems to have fixed itself. I flushed out the old
messages, and the new stuff is coming in okay now.
One oddity; I resubscribed to sci.space.moderated and my old messages
there showed up as having been written by Rand Simberg, which I'm sure
he would find amusing. :-D

Frightening, actually.