Re: Puzzle for Puzzlewoman

In article <bf8f4$45ee2bb4$4fe7432$10398@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "nonsense@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nonsense@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BruceS wrote:

In article <daaf3$45ed8536$4fe701c$6455@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"nonsense@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nonsense@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

BruceS wrote:


In article <kgQFh.11557$Xe1.10680@trndny01>, "C.Woof" <CWoof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

"'foolsrushin.'" <dolomite8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in



Bruce and other fuckwits ought to wake up!

I do hope it's been a bad day.


LOL. I can't tell just what his complaint about me is. All I did was

explain

the mechanics of a posted puzzle, and he calls me a "fuckwit"?

I've observed this newsgroup over a longer period.


Longer than what? I haven't seen you here long, under your corrent handle.
I
was here (ROM) ca. '95, left for a bit, and came back. Lately, I've been
spending less time here, as it's been largely taken over by the insane and
the
stupid. Even the most entertaining of the insane has stopped ranting here
regularly, and our favorite troll rarely visits. It's a wasteland.

It is the wasteland insanity of usenet that has some of us
doing this sort of an anonymous thing. I've been here, and
gone, and back, and gone, some countless numbers of times.
If you do figure out who I am, please name no names--and
thanks in advance for that.

Were I to discover (unlikely), I would tell only you. Since you know who you
are, it would serve little purpose, except to show how clever I am, and I
already know *that*. I don't see much point in changing identities, so I've
posted here under only two*, with the other being for very a specific purpose.
However, I don't begrudge others the right to change spots.

* I don't really recall what I posted under back in '95, and since Google
doesn't archive those, we may never know.

It is wintertime. I had a surgery in December. Once I've
recovered sufficiently I'll probably be gone from here again
for some unpredictably indeterminate period. The fun years
of usenet, as I knew them anyway, seem to have passed, though
this conversation evokes fond memories of how things were.

It's Spring here, and I had surgery in June, July, and February, but am
recovered from all. I hope you do as well.

I know Penny is hiding out these days, apparently completely
off the internet. She experienced a professional disaster,
publishing a paper that she had to withdraw for error. The really
bad part is that she was involved in a professional capacity with
the peer reviewed journal that published her article, so they're
on the receiving end of severe criticism for allowing it to
be published with inadequate non-impartial review.

Yikes! I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope she one day overcomes her shame,
and comes back to ROM. Then again, I'd like to see the mad wet hen back here,
and that isn't very likely.

David Cramer hasn't been seen in years. It seems only you
and prigator show up occasionally. The bunch that followed
MTM to the private site seem to have been gobbled up by it.
Something tells me I'd have enjoyed being a fly on that wall.

I have a hunch that Mensa International's mission was to
destroy MTM without effectively replacing it. Their annual
dues didn't suffer for that, nor was there any incentive for
them to expose the organization, let alone their membership,
to the world outside their meetings.

And yet there's really nothing they can do about ROM. It remains, and to many
is a representation of Mensa, no matter how many times people point out the
total lack of official relationship. Imagine someone considering membership,
coming here, and seeing what it has to offer. ISTM that the best approach
would be to retain some presense here, with those reminders and even a Hillish
regular posting. My earliest experience with ROM made Mensa look pretty good
to me.

It seems
to me there are some sort of migratory patterns involved in
who posts here in any given timeframe. They're each hungry
for something (most likely they don't understand what it
is) which drives them through different newsgroups. Standing
still in one place will let you see them all.

At one point, there was a mass migration to MTM, with shifting back and
forth.
Then, the PTB reorganized MTM as a mailing list, and it died, with migration

back here. Unfortunately, it looks like many of the best contributors have
now found an even more valuable use of their time than Usenet.

That's easily done once the threshold of "worth my time"
disappears.

It was said, in the old days of the 1950's, that if you spent
your days for a long enough a period in the plaza at
Rockefeller Center in NYC you'd eventually meet everyone you
know there. True enough, I suppose, if you lived in the NY
Metro region.

I didn't know *anyone* in the '50s, so it wouldn't have taken long.

The 50's were really a very good time for me. I wouldn't
have any objection reliving them.

Here, the world is our playground.

Enjoy it!

He called you a "fuckwit"?

Yep.. Foosrushin does that bit from time to time. I don't recall having any
spat with him, so it was a little surprising to have it directed at me.

Congratulations, you were noticed. Among the lower classes
that passes for a compliment. I think it has something to
do with comparison to their parents.

I've been insulted by much better people than him. I don't want to brag, but

I've personally met someone who's neighbor has the same last name as a famous

person. I don' tneed to be noticed by the hoi polloi.

I once met a horse that was ridden by a famous person! Oops,
I meant to say ridden by some other famous person!

Hey, me too! I wonder if it was the same horse.

While they're here dropping verbal bombs, their militant
Islamic peers around the world are building hardware
bombs. Sticks and stones has turned serious.

And our bright boys are working on new toys for playing with the unwashed
primitives.

What would our bright boys do instead, perhaps end human
starvation, cure the common cold, or maybe, just maybe,
cure cancer?

I'm OK with their current work. I appreciate that they do most of their
testing so remotely. There are plenty working on curing various nasty
diseases, and we wouldn't want to significantly extend life spans generally,
as that would spell disaster for such magnificent programs as U.S. Social
Security.
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