Re: DO WE REALLY NEED A FAQ..????

From: Jill. (news_at_REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:00:14 -0000

SHIVER ME TIMBERS wrote:
>> Jill. <news@REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Is a FAQ really necessary....... and why.
>>
>> probably not which is probably why we have not done one <vbg>
>
> Thanks for your response Jill.
>
> When I made my post earlier today I was a little afraid that you might
> decide to throttle me by the neck for being as direct as I was.

nah -- why - it was a perfectly valid point -- possibly a little overboard
in the enthusiasm but hey we could do with livening up sometimes :~))

>
> TO THE GROUP --------> I've been lurking in this group for about
> five years now and have enjoyed the conviviality of the regulars,
> while getting a free education on the raising of chickens.

And occasionally posting -- you have been spotted <bg>

>
> Mr. Hawkins is curious as to whether or not I have any experience with
> live chickens and the answer is no I do not.
>
> I don't believe that is a prerequisite for being a member of this
> group.

I agree

>
> What brought me to this group originally was dead chickens.
>
> Frozen dead chickens...... By the metric tonne.

>
> Now Jill..... If you stretch your memory you may recall one of the
> first posts I made to this group where I was inquiring as to the
> possible availability of turkey heads. That's right - turkey heads.
>
> Thirty thousand pounds of turkey heads to be exact.

<I remember !>
:~)

<snip -- the evidence that its variety that makes this world go around - and
to never turn down an opportunity>

>
> If I have a comment, good bad or indifferent, relevant, topical or
> not, I make it to the group, and take my lumps (if any) like a mature
> adult, as they may come.

Sounds fair.

> Yet each week I receive about two thousand junk e-mails as a result of
> my commercial site, and every Monday I download them from my ISP and
> immediately delete them.

It will be wonderful when someone works out how to deal with them - I
absolutely empathise

>
> And every time someone chastises me for supposedly being anonymous
> by not using a valid name or addy I think of those thousands of spam
> e-mails that I delete each week and say no thank you.

being purely pedantic - using your real name does not affect that. :~))

>
> And if you have been reading my post this far, and frankly who isn't,
> I say to you on behalf of Shiver Me Timbers, greetings from Edmonton,
> Alberta, Canada, the home of tasty Alberta beef, and where the
> chickens are always tasty.

We must try harder though -- if you have been around here that long and NOT
got the urge for your own birds we need to do better :~))

>
> And if anyone wants to know who I really am.... well this is who
> I really am...... 161.184.141.129.

PLeased to met you
! 

--
regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment,  Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk

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