Re: So How's Everyone?

"Alan Hope" <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It is a beautiful story, be honest: a girl came to Steve with a
> paragraph, because she knows he did a writing course, and look what a
> lot of good it did him. And he offered to "bung it up" on the
> newsgroup, which must have come as a surprise, and perhaps a not
> entirely unwelcome surprise, until she found out what a newsgroup is.
>
> Now you're blaming him for writing it? How absurd! Surely even Steve
> wouldn't be stupid enough to ask for writing advice from Steve, since
> he knew there's a newsgroup right here for him to bung it up! Think
> about what you're saying, man!

Humour, Alan, is best written when you're not in the middle of angrily
slapping people, otherwise there's the danger it turns out like the
above. And slapping people is best reserved for those that actually
want to fight.

I don't.


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