From: moe@notmine.null   
      
   On 10/29/2015 2:42 PM, Charles Bishop wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   "Andy"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> AL'S COMPUTERS   
   >> "George Cornelius"  wrote in message   
   >> news:n0m01g$lnk$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
   >>> longhaircountryboy1@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>>> On Thursday, March 27, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Steven Tyler wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> equus@mindspring.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Permit me to join your thread.  Conrad Bains never appeared on Diff'rent   
   >>>>> Strokes as a regular character.  He played Mindy's Father in Mork &   
   >>>>> Mindy, much as it shames to realize that I still know this fact.  Bains   
   >>>>> bought the house from Vila and later sued Vila for fraud and Breach of   
   >>>>> Contract (?).  I don't know if the suit was settled yet.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Here's the kicker:  At his deposition, Vila admitted that: A) He had   
   >>>>> never worked as a contractor.  B) He had never worked for a contractor.   
   >>>>> C) He had never worked as a builder.  This was in a news cast.  I don't   
   >>>>> remember the news show.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Thanks,   
   >>>>> Steve   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I actually watched this on court TV, Conrad Janis sued Bob Vila for   
   >>>> selling him a crappie house. Bob's defense was, I'm not a carpenter   
   >>>> or know anything about the construction business, I'm just a TV host   
   >>>> that's all. He just tried to play dumb but the judge wasn't having   
   >>>> any of it. Conrad won his case and Bob had to pay for repairs.   
   >>>   
   >>> Congratulations on responding to an 18 year old thread!   
   >>   
   >> It happens from time to time when the news hosts reset the servers as it   
   >> resets the counter.   
   >> my ISP does it yearly and is annoying.   
   >   
   > Hmmm.  There is a theory in Another Group (or TOG) that the old posts   
   > coming from Google Groups (often with posters with gmail eddresses)   
   > because the poster has GoogleSearched for something and one response   
   > received is a Usenet Post. He replies to the post unaware that he won't   
   > see his post or replies to his post.   
   >   
   > I think an 18 yo post that has been replied to in Usenet may be a   
   > cross-group record. I'll check with the stewards and report back.   
   >   
      
   Someone just replied to a message in rec.gardens that had been posted   
   on 17 January 1994.   
      
   Alt.true-crime is thick with replies to ancient threads, usually from   
   persons connected to the crime being reported, who usually object to   
   the post's content and demand it be removed or retracted.   
      
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