Re: for the abstract

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:28:53 -0000, He Who Sees All  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:45:25 -0000, slider <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Jeremy wrote...
>>
>>>> > Adios adc
>>
>>>> ### - how odd, both you & crsds drop farewell notices on the same  
>>>> day??
>>>>
>>>> his post only showing up on google so am unable to reply directly...
>>>>
>>>> the answers are, however, the same in both instances:
>>>>
>>>> "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..."
>>>
>>> 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.)
>>>
>>> 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.  :)
>>
>> ### - didn't you 'ever' try it? peeps is raving about it if the  
>> feedback's
>> anything to go by...
>>
>> https://www.thewildway.com/files/reviews.htm
>>
>> even chriso finally cracked it and he's as indolent as shit lol, as  
>> you'll
>> see on there
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPE9a_epmWw
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> ### - 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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> So maybe we can't leave, Slider,
>>> but we can't come back either.
>>
>> ### - and am tellin' ya nada's actually changed except access via  
>> google :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> "I like to dream..."
>>> .
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?  :)
>>>
>>> Well, this is the last useless thing I'll ever do here.
>>>
>>> "Not Guilty"
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84MOwegIxT0
>>
>> ### - 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)
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> so now don't you (and mr chips both) perhaps feel a little silly?
>>
>> remind you of anything?? (really laffing haha, things haven't changed)
>>
>> meaning: all ya's need would be some sorta free mail/news-reader client
>> instead of coming through google...
>>
>> e.g., borrowed this next passage from alt-magick just now rather than  
>> type
>> it all out:
>>
>> "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."
>>
>> ***
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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
>>
>> it's really quite funny don't you think? it forced your hand...
>>
>> i mean, whoever said the universe is without any humour huh :)
>>
>> anyhoo, am kinda glad you ain't dead anyway (i did wonder a couple  
>> times)
>>
>> ain't been a lot happening there being so few of us, but the gang's  
>> still
>> here
>>
>> and it got you here didn't it, so welcome back lol :)
>>
>> (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.

### - (really laffing) it might be wrapped in a bit of a private joke  
(which you clearly don't see/get, nor understand) but there's nada fake  
about the way am saying goodbye to matie in my own, inimitable style,  
heh...

because HE knows what i mean even if you don't, see? it's a private joke:

that am leaving the door very slightly ajar regardless...

now try to keep up there's a good chap; you're always sooo slow haha ;)