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   Message 143,914 of 144,831   
   Beaver Fever to Questor   
   Re: Why Did Ed Asner Look So Old?   
   22 Sep 21 14:37:28   
   
   From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 10:43:35 AM UTC-7, Questor wrote:   
   > On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:05:45 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"    
   wrote:   
   > >On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:21:19 -0700 (PDT)   
   > >Beaver Fever  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >Is there anyone left here who can talk about something sensible? Or do I   
   just   
   > >get BF's random thoughts?   
   > Some of us are doing what we can to counter the stream of unconsciousness,   
   > although the paucity of participants, for reasons ably outlined by Boron   
   > elsewhere in this thread, make it difficult to sustain ongoing discussions.   
   > Apart from that face page thing, blame should be placed on former New York   
   > Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who threatened to prosecute ISPs over alleged   
   > child pornography in binary newsgoups and gave the major ISPs an excuse to   
   shut   
   > down their NNTP servers entirely back in the mid-aughts.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Long John Silver serves no king; no land holds him, that's why he feels like   
   > singing   
      
      
   A similar thing happened with Craigslist just when I perfected casual   
   encounters.   
      
   But the intelligent discussion really was the draw for me here and I can't   
   find it anywhere!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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