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|  Message 4083  |
|  Gleb Hlebov to Ardith Hinton  |
|  Re: Funny story about Russians  |
|  20 Feb 24 11:20:18  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 65d46eca REPLY: 1:153/716.0 5cec66c1 PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240209 CHRS: LATIN-1 2 TZUTC: 0200 TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2023-02-24 Hi Ardith, 16.02.2024 1:26:34, Ardith Hinton wrote: > ak> And he wrote on his fence this announcement: > GH> He posted the following annnouncement on his fence: > AK> Well, but IMHO people write words on the fences, not > AK> post them. ;-) > Depends on what the fence was made of. I think Gleb has a > point in that this announcement may have been written on a scrap of > cardboard which the protagonist attached to the fence using whatever > came readily to hand.... :-) 'The protagonist'. I like the word. Yes, it could be a sheet of cardboard attached to a metal/wooden fence with duct tape, or our protagonist might as well write it in 2-feet tall letters with white paint, which is unlikely (but not unexpected). -- Rudin's Law: In a crisis that forces a choice to be made among alternative courses of action, people tend to choose the worst possible course. --- * Origin: news://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 128/260 SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/225 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 SEEN-BY: 218/720 840 850 860 870 880 930 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 SEEN-BY: 229/112 113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512 SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35 PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426 |
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