XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá déag de mí Aibreán, scríobh HenHanna:   
      
    > Was PTD more of a Presence in Sci.Lang or in AUE?   
      
   I was never active in alt.usage.english so I can’t comment.   
      
    >                             Was he a   BIG FISH  in  other groups?   
    >   
    > When did he come to Usenet?   
      
   Google Group suggests about 1997.   
      
   He doesn’t appear to be active anymore, not a great use of your time to   
   obsess   
   about him.   
      
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   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
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