From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Questor presented the following explanation :   
   > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:23:56 -0800, Snidely  wrote:   
   >> Questor pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   >>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:06:09 -0800, Snidely  wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not so much left-wing sources as reality-based sources.   
   >>   
   >> You have indubiatebly swayed many folk.   
   >   
   > You ascribe motives that don't exist.   
   >   
   >   
   >>>>> The second problem is using Goo-goo groups [spit]   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't know who has done more damage to Usenet -- Elliot Spitzer or   
   >>> Google.   
   >>   
   >> Well, since your own superiority is unquestioned, we can absolve you.   
   >   
   > Given the discussion context and the facts, that reply makes no sense.   
      
   Unlike Google and Elliot Spitzer, your rants are not damaging usenet.   
      
   /dps   
      
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