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   phoenix to William Stickers   
   Re: Oh my...   
   16 Jan 26 14:26:33   
   
   XPost: alt.usenet.kooks, alt.slack   
   From: j63840576@gmail.com   
      
   William Stickers wrote:   
   > Doc Hammerslack wrote:   
   >>   
   >> At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:47:20 -0000, William Stickers  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Doc Hammerslack wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:12:34 +0000, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Doc Hammerslack  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> I'll admit that I got tired of their MIME-escaped quote separators,   
   >>>>>> so I have this newsreader rendering those strings.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Is there an emoji for an aubergine (eggplant)   
   >>>>> that has shriveled, turned black and fallen off?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ?   
   >>>   
   >>> That's a question mark. This is usenet, not fucking facebook.   
   >>   
   >> Are you the Usenet cops, come to arrest me for posting IAW   
   >> the encoding specified in the header, pursuant to the relevant   
   >> RFC's?   
   >   
   > No.   
   >   
   >> What's the charge?   
   >   
   > Make one up. It wouldn't surprise me if you were good at that.   
   >   
   >> You can have my emojis when you pry them from   
   >> my cold, dead fingers.   
   >   
   > It's Ok, you can keep your question marks.   
   >   
   No! It's off to the principal;s office you go!   
      
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