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   The Real Bev to Wade Garrett   
   Re: Wal-Mart Auto Tire Scam   
   29 Jun 20 11:39:39   
   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 06/29/2020 09:15 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:   
   > On 6/29/20 12:06 PM, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >> On 06/28/2020 03:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>> In article <83eff820-2be1-4502-8d24-2e7a1883e081o@googlegroups.com>,   
   >>>   <7yreclipse@gmail.com> wrote:   
   >>>> LMAO a blank webpage from Walmart saying it can't be found, looks   
   >>>> like you failed.   
   >>>   
   >>> It possible that webpage existed fourteen years ago when the message   
   >>> you are   
   >>> replying to was posted.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is the google interface so bad that people don't realize they are   
   >>> replying   
   >>> to messages that are decades old?   
   >>   
   >> I think it's more likely that stupid people just don't look at the   
   >> dates.  Is it perhaps overkill to assume that the only people who read   
   >> usenet via googlegroups are stupid?  Based on what I've seen, I think not.   
   >>   
   > I don't know about the stupidity angle.   
      
   If you use google groups rather than a REAL newsreader,  I might be   
   willing to assume ignorance rather than stupidity, but that kind of   
   depends on the post.   
      
   > You see that sort of thing on TV   
   > and other news websites all the time...showing a story that actually ran   
   > last week, last month or last year either with no date on it or it's   
   > there but in small, light gray mouse print.   
   >   
   > Ya' sorta assume that what you're reading is current...   
      
   Indeed.  It's not like we're hauling old newspapers out of the attic.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
      "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person   
       or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even   
       possibly incurring losses."                       -- C.M.Cipolla   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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