Re: poor peter's pitiful little message...

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:01:03 -0500

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:34:14 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
<news:41BC64F6.7F92@worldnet.att.net> in sci.lang:

> It must have been before September 2001, because that's when my hard
> drive broke and I have no emails from before then (assuming his ID began
> with either "Alexander" or "Gross"). (I drove into Manhattan on 9/12 to
> pick up my computer from the repair shop on 60th St., just north of
> where no traffic was permitted to go.)

> I've never tried searching "google groups" before and must have collided
> with the new interface everyone is complaining about, since I get
> nothing but a few screens of html code.

> But perhaps someone who _does_ know how to handle it can find the
> newsgroup postings about the event that Alexander so badly misremembers.

15 April 2001:
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.lang/msg/32ddc9e88d8d634f>,
noting that A.G. had failed to keep his promised appointment
the previous Friday (which, amusingly enough, was the 13th).

5 June 2001:
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.lang/msg/cfe203f498d55e53?dmode=source>,
in which the 'translation emergency' was first mentioned.

Brian