Re: for the abstract

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:45:25 -0000, slider <[email protected]>
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>Jeremy wrote...
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>>> > Adios adc
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>>> ### - how odd, both you & crsds drop farewell notices on the same day??
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>>> his post only showing up on google so am unable to reply directly...
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>>> the answers are, however, the same in both instances:
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>>> "you can check-out any time ya like
>>> but you(s) can never leave" ;)
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egMWlD3fLJ8
>>>
>>> "head out on the highway..."
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>> I had wondered if anyone would respond.
>> I'm not sure when they're cutting off posting,
>> except that it was announced as "February 22".
>> (Why Chris and I said bye on the same day.)
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>> Of course you're still the WILD guy.
>> And I do like that Steppenwolf song!
>> Yet it's not quite my favorite.
>> Since I'm still the DILD guy.  :)
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>### - didn't you 'ever' try it? peeps is raving about it if the feedback's  
>anything to go by...
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>https://www.thewildway.com/files/reviews.htm
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>even chriso finally cracked it and he's as indolent as shit lol, as you'll  
>see on there
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>> In 1969, I was attending junior high school, and after school
>> I often went to a local pizza joint run by a real Italian family.
>> I'd go in by myself and order the cheapest thing they had -
>> a small cheese pizza - and I'd sit in the very back, smoking,
>> but before the pizza was ready, I'd go over to the jukebox,
>> put in a dime, and play my favorite - this song:
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPE9a_epmWw
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>> What feels weird is how I must have done that, I don't know,
>> like 15 times or more, and yet now I can't ever do it again.
>> Unless at the fourth gate of dreaming I was to dream
>> that same little Italian pizza joint and jukebox. LOL.
>> I'm pretty sure I won't ever do that either.
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>### - via a wild you 'could' actually call-up that whole pizza scene  
>exactly as it then was, people, jukebox and all, and actually revisit it  
>again, even old dreams can be re-called/revisited this way, not that you'd  
>prolly want to, am just sayin', and no 4th gate required :)
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>> So maybe we can't leave, Slider,
>> but we can't come back either.
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>### - and am tellin' ya nada's actually changed except access via google :)
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>> "I like to dream..."
>> .
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>> I think I still have time to type some more, so I'm going to tell
>> one more story - a story I only learned the ending to... today.
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>> For many years, I had been proud of the fact that I had never in
>> my entire life been sued by anyone, nor had I ever sued another.
>> Even my divorce in 1995 was fully uncontested, for I had once
>> worked in a quickie divorce office where you can get paperwork
>> done for $68 plus a $35 filing fee, and that's just how we did it.
>> No lawyers, full amicable agreement on all terms. Cost:  $103.
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>> Anyway, I had long been proud of having never been sued.
>>
>> Then last year, an 'atmospheric river' storm came through LA,
>> with a great deal of rain and high winds, and it blew over one of
>> our huge beautiful old trees, and the tree fell on the fence between
>> our house and a neighbor's house, also barely grazing part of our
>> neighbor's roof.  We don't actually own the property we live on,
>> so we contacted the management company and put in a ticket in
>> to have the tree removed and the fence repaired.  The same storm
>> even blew over the little picket fence around our immediate yard,
>> and our company agreed to rebuild that fence for us as well.
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>> Our neighbor kept texting back and forth with my partner about it.
>> My partner setup tickets for them in the company system and was
>> very responsive, and yet the company hired a contractor to inspect
>> our neighbor's roof that was NOT responsive.  And within four days
>> this guy, who we already knew was a jerk, threatened to sue US.
>> We'd told him we didn't even own the tree (it really barely did any
>> damage to his roof that I could see). But he kept swearing he was
>> going to take us to court, and a few months later the guy put
>> an unstamped letter in our mailbox requesting payment of $2500.
>> He even sat in his car on the street a couple of times watching
>> while I came down and got the mail, I guess so he'd know I got
>> the little letters he was sending?  He had gone to the trouble of
>> having some of them drawn up by a lawyer that was his friend.
>> My partner called this lawyer and tried to talk sense into him,
>> but no dice. He insisted that unless we paid we'd all go to court.
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>> Meanwhile, our management company, which fully repaired the
>> fence between us, and fully cleaned up all the trees bordering
>> our properties, also submitted the guy's roof bill to their insurance.
>> But their insurance said they would not pay for our neighbor's roof
>> because the tree falling was 'an act of God' and THEIR insurance
>> should cover that part of it.  Of course that made jerkyboy furious.
>>
>> The thing hung in the wind for months, and then the guy started
>> trying to have us served to appear in court.  Our place is kind of
>> insular so they never succeeded in serving anyone here, but there
>> had been a court date set.  Our management company tried to
>> get the court to drop the case, but couldn't do it and so eventually
>> we all had to go to court, a lady from our management company,
>> and both of us. But when we got there we found that the guy
>> had at the last minute requested a postponement for a month.
>> So we all went to the courthouse for nothing, and the thing
>> was held over our heads for yet another month.
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>> We finally went to small claims court and made our arguments.
>> The guy ranted and raved in a highly speculative way about how
>> we supposedly hadn't cared for the trees properly, but our company
>> had records of every time they'd trimmed the big trees, and my
>> partner had a record of all the texts showing how cooperative
>> she'd been and what a dick he'd been.  (He had addressed me
>> in his attempts to collect by a name that isn't even my real name,
>> which was really a joke name my partner had put on a magazine
>> subscription, which proved that he got my name by going through
>> our mailbox, which is illegal.)  And we submitted evidence proving
>> the tree fell the very day of the big LA atmospheric river storm.
>> It turned out he'd sued our company using the wrong name too.
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>> But only today did we finally hear the verdict of the silly case.
>> It was ruled that our jerky neighbor gets... nothing. So this dude
>> had sweat this dumb thing for a solid year, paid to file the case,
>> paid money to try to have us served three times, and before she
>> cut him off had ranted and raved rudely in texts to my partner.
>> I had simply ignored him completely the whole time. We had
>> never spoken a word in all the years we'd been neighbors.
>> Still haven't, and probably never will. Knock on wood.
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>> But he broke the 'record' I was so proud of, dammit.
>> I got sued because a tree in my yard fell down.
>> Pride went before a fall, I'd have to observe.
>> It's amazing the useless things people do that
>> go on and on forever. Remind you of anything?  :)
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>> Well, this is the last useless thing I'll ever do here.
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>> "Not Guilty"
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84MOwegIxT0
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>### - well maybe 'that' will teach ya to go around being/feeling 'proud'  
>about stuff huh, but not all is lost there, his case didn't succeed and  
>was thrown out, your record remaining unblemished (it bounced-off, cool,  
>you're a teflon-don already)
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>and coz it's only google that's stopping people posting to groups from the  
>22nd, the newsgroups themselves will still all be here after today,  
>including adc...
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>so now don't you (and mr chips both) perhaps feel a little silly?
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>remind you of anything?? (really laffing haha, things haven't changed)
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>meaning: all ya's need would be some sorta free mail/news-reader client  
>instead of coming through google...
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>e.g., borrowed this next passage from alt-magick just now rather than type  
>it all out:
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>"It is only the Google Groups portal to this newsgroup that
>is getting shut down, which will mean less spam. You
>can still access this newsgroup via a newsreader such
>as Agent on Windows, Hogwasher on Mac, Pan on Linux,
>or the free Thunderbird (even if you don’t also use it for
>email) on all three, accessing a free newsserver such
>as Eternal September or Solani, or, if you want binary
>access, a paid newsserver such as Giganews."
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>e.g., 'Eternal september' is what have been personally using as a  
>newsserver (only requires a genuine email address which isn't revealed  
>when posting, and a minimum usage of say once per month to remain active)  
>and a free 'Opera Mail' as a news-client, although i also have a free  
>'Thunderbird Mail client' too as backup...
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>smile, so it looks like the universe/infinity whatever is just having its  
>little joke with you, dragging you's both back here under false pretenses  
>to say goodbye when nada but google access is changing haha
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>it's really quite funny don't you think? it forced your hand...
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>i mean, whoever said the universe is without any humour huh :)
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>anyhoo, am kinda glad you ain't dead anyway (i did wonder a couple times)
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>ain't been a lot happening there being so few of us, but the gang's still  
>here
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>and it got you here didn't it, so welcome back lol :)
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>(for effect slider gently twangs jeremy's big rubber band that's  
>apparently still attached)

Wipe that self effacing (fake) virtual smile offa ya face.  Even a
shit eating racoon shows less denture than that.

You should be ashamed of yourself, you're just another fake like
99.999% of our short sighted species.

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>haha :)

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