XPost: alt.flame, alt.os.linux   
   From: fart_deco@127.0.0.1   
      
   Stephen Edwards wrote:   
      
   > The U.S. Constitution wrote:   
   >   
   >> Stephen Edwards  wrote in news:43a5ecb0$1_5   
   >> @newsfeed.slurp.net:   
   >   
   > 8< SNIP >8   
   >   
   >>>>>>Say something else stupid now!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Jim is smart?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Brilliant!! Don't let anybody tell you that you don't still have "it".   
   >>>>You get a gold star for today.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Gee, I wonder why BeOS advocacy never convinces anyone to use BeOS.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Perhaps because so many of its users act like little children?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I'm sure that's the reason.   
   >   
   > Possibly one of many. I probably should have phrased it "try BeOS".   
   >   
   > Granted, BeOS certainly isn't suitable for the vast majority of users,   
   > however, I was mainly referring to open source programmers who might be   
   > interested in porting their opensource apps to the BeOS, if for no other   
   > reason, to use it as a hobby OS, or another platform on which to test   
   > their code for portability.   
   >   
   > I'd do it, except I simply don't have time, or enough experience with   
   > C/C++ programming to undertake such projects.   
   >   
   > It'll be interesting to see how much life, if any, could get put back   
   > into the "BeOS way", if you will, when HaikuOS and/or OpenBeOS get a   
   > bit more of a foothold.   
      
   VMS pwns you all, bit-chess.  :P   
      
   --   
   Roberta "Foxymopjockeychickenwrist" Wolfe   
           "The talk of the sekret AUK   
           off-newsgroup listserves!"   
      
   >>>>> Hmmmmmm. Is this the Mop Jockey or Alexa?   
      
   >>>> Moppy.   
      
   >>>Are you sure? It had an Alexa/babaloonie addy (one or the other, I   
   >>>forget which now)...   
      
   >> mop jockey started the "Fart Deco" froggery, which was then adopted by   
   >> the oh_brutha20002 sockpuppet machine/fanboi.  "FArt Deco" is/was   
   >> oh_brutha.   
      
   > Right, right...I still contend, however, that Alexa is the most likely   
   > candidate for the wearer of the oh_brutha/babaloonie sock, simply because   
   > the style resembles hers quite closely (IMO), posting through Google while   
   > also using a newsreader (Agent 2.0) is easy enough, and oh_brutha seems to   
   > be going after some of Alexa's favourite targets with much the same   
   > attitude as whereisthemoney.org. Plus, of course, she [isn't] happy if   
   > she isn't socking-up all the time...   
      
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