Jon: yup, i'm about to give up, as i've more or less caught up with afp!

nice filk, by the way.

Behind more backs than a very slow-moving prop-forward?



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

behind more backs than an infinite pile of books...oh, hang on, i think that was somewhere else...

(my "new!" message indicatory things aren't working. They're there all the time, even though i enabled cookies for this site specially. It's confusing.)

It dopes that from time to time. Click on refresh and they might get the message...



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Or even 'does'



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I clicked on "mark all read" and they all went away. (obviously). But then I hit refresh, and there were no "new!"s, but your message was here.....

+That's because if the last thing you do is mark them all, and then you refresh it - it remarks them all again.Caught me out for ages, that one.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

and now they've all come back! aargh! i give up, i'm going to watch telly instead...night all!

psd, i didn't even notice the typo...i must have started mentally correcting them *before* i try and make sense of the sentence. which is scary.

It's because I'm on my bed typing, which isn't conducive to accuracy. And frankly, the thoughts aren't always worth deciphering anyway... Night



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Back at last, after excursions into Microsoft *shudder*

never a good plan. And ditch Messenger, it's rubbish. Try Trillian instead. Lets you IM anyone on MS Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL etc. And it's free.

[www.ceruleanstudios.com]

AAC: did you try it?

Dave, yep I tried it. I kinda like it. The features are cool. However, I don't think my computer likes it! Even with the upgrade patch. I was getting constant lockups and then Windows would have problems shutting down. I'd have to power down manually. So until I get it all together, I'll have to just play with each messenger separately! Oh well!

ah, that's a shame. Runs like clockwork on mine. Messenger was always locking up, logging itself out and back in again, so I'd be getting loads of 'buddy alert' messages.

I have XP, but on hubby's Win2000, it works like a charm. So go figure!

weird. I run it on my P133 laptop (win98) and it's slow but ok. Also run it on the PC (winXP) and it's fine.

Wonder if they do a linux version...
*pootles off to check*

Jon, how about a hint:

Here is a map of Michigan:

[www.sitesatlas.com]

Keep in mind that most of the population lives in the southern part of the state (as you can tell by the roads and cities marked) rather than in the Upper Penninsula (where the pasties are). If you were from there, and were trying to explain where you lived without benefit of pencil and paper, what would you point at?

BTW, I live south of Ann Arbor (about 60 miles east of Detroit). This weekend I drove (with 2 friends) to Green Bay Wisconsin (shown on the other side of Lake Michigan), which was about a 450 mile drive each way. It took about 10 hours (mostly because the road was covered with snow from Milwaukee on--we saw about 10 cars in the ditch) to get there, and 8 to get home.

Of course, we crossed a time zone in the process, and also switched to daylight savings time at 2am on Sunday, so I got to set my watch back an hour Friday night, Forward an hour Saturday night, and forward another hour on Sunday.

BTW, I've been told that the difference between an American and a Brit is that the American thinks 100 years is a long time, while the Brit thinks 100 miles is a long distance.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Well, Jon? Have you figured it out yet?



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Um. no ..... if it was me I'd say something 'I live in the bit between Lakes Michigan and Huron' but that's probably not what you're after. I do know it takes four days to hitchhike to Saginaw.



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And just to drag this thread back on topic ..... MACCA ROCKS!! Wooo Hooo!!

My throat is still sore from singing na na na, na-na na na a lot.

If Sir Paul is playing within 500 miles of your hometown, GO. You will never regret it, but if he never tours again and you miss out, you will surely regret it. Not now, but soon. And for the rest of your life.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

But the lives of three lousy people, don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world !

Glad you all enjoyed yourselves. I still listen to the CD of his last tour in the late 80's / early 90's. He is great. Did you meet up with Skiffle ?