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Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 26, 2006 02:51PM

<decides that answering that question is SEP>

<hits ball through window, hitting Robert on head>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: October 26, 2006 03:54PM

<cheers that now she won't have to eat the battenburg herself>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: robert (---.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net)
Date: October 27, 2006 12:39AM

<rubs head>
<sees cricket ball on floor>
<decides to put 2 + 2 together later>
<goes back to watching live Inter-Asian wind-breaking tourney on tv where the Papuan tag-team of Tombo "tug-boat" Imblowin & Jimmy "the Gorokan Thunderer" Owtlowd are winning in a breeze against their Balinese opponents, "The Tinkle Twins".>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: 198505 (---.range86-139.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 27, 2006 12:57PM

<goes and gets ball>

<looks at TV>

<shakes head>

<ponders that it's still better than Xtrem Dodge Ball>
<Yells 'Bombardment'>

< throws ball back out>

<jumps out sell, sees madera cake, eats it>

< falls asleep>

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Lady Teaspoon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: October 28, 2006 02:49AM

<throws bats off, who choose MartinB as their next victim>

<Watches as MartinB immediately becomes invisible due to the SEP principle>

<chuckles>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: October 28, 2006 03:42AM

<Wonders how Lady T could have seen MartinB become invisible if it was SEP?>

<Decides it's SEP and lies down for nap.>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 28, 2006 04:38PM

<wonders what sort of stuff he can do know that he is SEP...>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Puck (---.dorm.reed.edu)
Date: October 29, 2006 03:26AM

<finds that I am evidently the proverbial SE, as I can still see Martin>

<wonders what Martin is plotting that is so problematic to me>

<paranoia begins to set in>

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Metaphors be with you!

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 29, 2006 04:40PM

<machinates quietly>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: October 29, 2006 07:15PM

<Thinks having paranoia doesn't mean he's NOT out to get you.>

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 29, 2006 07:44PM

<points out that suffering from pronoia is likely to be more fatal>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: October 29, 2006 07:48PM

<is quite confident that having Martin out to get you is NOT a sign of paranoia>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 29, 2006 08:21PM

<demands an explanation>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: October 30, 2006 04:44AM

<explains that she can't explain without using speech, which isn't allowed in this thread.>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 30, 2006 07:17AM

<insists>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: October 30, 2006 07:55AM

<wonders what Byzantine land grants have to do with anything even though knows the modern meaning of pronoia and hopes no-one will try to explain it>

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: October 30, 2006 11:05AM

<wants to know what Byzantine land grants have to do with anything these days>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: October 30, 2006 12:28PM

<checks to see if he has been given a pronoia by a passing Byzantine civil servant>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: October 30, 2006 04:13PM

<Hopes very, very much that the Byzantine civil servants are Somebody Else's Problem.>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Lady Teaspoon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: October 31, 2006 03:32AM

<wonders if Puck can see Byzantine civil servants>

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