Re: why does this newsgroup have beasts

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:00:21 GMT, "Rich Grise, but drunk"
<yahright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:10:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:54:22 +0100, Paul Burridge
>> <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>On 21 Dec 2005 17:20:48 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>>>We could do with more civilising influences, but the one's we've got
>>>>don't seem to get much credit for their efforts.
>>>
>>>And that would be *you* would it, Bill??
>>
>> Read "civilizing influences" as "sufficiently pompous insults."
>>
>> John
>
>Oh, come on, John! You, of all people, should know that in order for
>a person to be pompous, they have to have something to pomp!
>

OK, OK, good point. Sorry.

John

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