"Grimble Gromble" <grimble.gromble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> Oh dear!
>> Indeed!
> Agreed
Agreeing with me on my first day back?
My, how things have changed whilst I've been away.
>>> The answer to your questions is I don't know
>> At least you're honest Grim. ;o)
> Always
Not strictly true.
>>> (I know nothing).
>> Now that's not true now is it?
> I refer you to my previous comment
Likewise.
>>> Now if gandalf was still alive...
>> Be careful what you wish for.
> I thought you enjoyed life. I was actually concerned that you might
> be found floating upside down in a VAT of Guiness somewhere in
> Ireland. How was it? 'Sgood to have you back.
Technically, I'm not "back". The compromise is that I'm in the UK for a
week and in Ireland for a week. Decide for yourself if that gives the
best
or worst of both worlds.
>>> On the other hand, Since LMS posted a query,
>>> she may be back shortly.
>> I'm not doing anything at the moment. Shall I stand guard until she
>> returns?
> How can you be not doing anything at the moment? Has something
> changed?
I'm going to contradict myself here (see - some things never change!).
I've
been playfully (I hope!) pulling your leg about you saying that you know
"nothing" when clearly you must know "something" and, no matter how
trivial
you consider that "something" to be, it amounts to more than "nothing".
However, when I said "I'm not doing anything at the moment", that must be
taken as a relative statement. For, far from doing "nothing", I must have
been, at the very least, typing the message you were reading whilst
stating
I was doing nothing. So, just by stating I was doing "nothing", I was in
fact doing "something".
You see? No? Keep reading it. Either it'll make sense eventually, or by
the time you've replied my head will have cleared somewhat and I'll be
able
to post a more cogent reply.
>>> I'll try emailing a couple of 'old' members and
>>> alert them to a living presence on the ng and
>>> we'll see where we go from there?
I've had a look in my "InBox" for this NG, and along with the many
thousands
of ads for cheap viagra, various ***** enlargement products, a multitude
of
mortgage offers (in USD!) and a host of updates pur****ting to be from
Microsoft, there are indeed a couple of messages from you.
Sorry I've not replied to them. I wasn't checking the mailbox as
diligently as I ought to have done. (c.f. "I wasn't checking it at all").
>> Calling all "old" members (and the "not so old" ones too).
> I'm doubtful we'll hear much, if anything, from the 'not so old' ones
> as they all went of to university with their multiple A***s.
<SFX: Tuts>
Ah, the young 'uns. May their cotton socks be blessed as they do their
level best to convert their student grants into alcohol and music systems,
whilst begging, stealing and/or borrowing the course material necessary
for
their relevant studies.
> I hear from Sarah (Jelly Baby) once in a blue moon (she's studying
> biology at Dundee uni).
<SFX: Ooooh!>
>>> If they're game,
>> If only Janey were still here. The comedic value of that
>> statement...
> You know something I don't (apart from nothing)?
"Anything" is more than "nothing". So, assuming I know anything, I know
more than you and therefore know "something" you don't.
> If only ...
....and we're now gone full circle and we're back to where I came in, with
an
"Indeed!".
>>> you'll find them the nicest bunch of people you
>>> could possibly hope for.
>> I second that.
> Me too.
Me three?
Oh 'tis so good to be back.
Gandalf
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