From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Lo, on the 11/24/2020, Questor did proclaim ...   
   > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:04:16 -0800 (PST), Roger House <61rroger@gmail.com>   
   > wrote:   
   >> My smartphone has a news feature.  I was briefly looking at a news story fr=   
   >> om Breitbart news about some stuff that Fox news host Laura Ingraham said o=   
   >> n her show.  At one point, it says/shows, (for lack of a better way of sayi=   
   >> ng it), and this next little bit is a direct quote from the news piece:  "[=   
   >> U]nless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and unlikely manner, Joe =   
   >> Biden will be inaugurated on January 20."  There more stuff before and afte=   
   >> r the part that I quoted, but my question is only about something in the qu=   
   >> oted part.  Here's my question.  Why is the "U" in the word unless in brack=   
   >> ets and what is the point of putting it in the brackets?  The "U" is in bra=   
   >> ckets in the printed news piece, I didn't do it only by myself.  Thanks eve=   
   >> ryone in advance!   
   >   
   > The big problem is why are you reading a right-wing nutjob propaganda site   
   > like Breitfart?  That stuff is going to rot your mind, if it hasn't already.   
   > Of course, Fox is little better.   
      
   Of course a response like that is going to make everyone move to   
   left-wing sources.   
      
      
   > The second problem is using Goo-goo groups [spit]   
      
   Clean your mess up off the sidewalk, please.  While Google Groups has   
   its problems, being gross and impolite is yours.   
      
   > to post to Usenet, with its   
   > execrable "flowed text" format.  (I've left it unchanged above.)  Doesn't   
   > anyone believe in line breaks anymore?   
      
   It's a conciousness-raising thing, and I think rroger is using   
   different equipment than we're used to for his posts, so gentle hints   
   may be appropriate.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement,   
   but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler   
   moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on   
   top of him?"   
     _Roughing It_, Mark Twain.   
      
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