Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:4718 From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: FREE SUPER DAILY VOCABULARY BUILDER Date: 8 Jun 1996 07:29:53 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Lines: 113 Sender: ao950 AT freenet5 DOT carleton DOT ca (Paul Derbyshire) Message-ID: <4pba5h$rra@freenet-news.carleton.ca> References: Reply-To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet5.carleton.ca To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Super Daily Info-Net (infowave AT info-wave DOT com) writes: > Sign up for the Super Daily Vocabulary Builder and we'll send you a > new vocabulary word by email each business day. You can choose from three > different categories: General, Business or Computer. Best of all, the > services is free. Dear: [X] Geek [X] Dweeb [ ] Nincompoop [ ] Idiot [X] Weirdo [ ] Asshole [X] Flamebait[X] Jerk [ ] Dingbat [X] Freak [X] Sorrowfully Afflicted Person [X] Laughbag [ ] Fuzzball [ ] Vain person [X] Fardwark [X] Other (please specify): _flamebrain_______ You are hereby charged with the heinous crime of: [X] Posting off topic [X] Cross posting to 6 or more unrelated [ ] Posting a pyramid scheme newsgroups [ ] Posting binaries in a [ ] Flaming someone text newsgroup [ ] Posting flamebait or trolls [ ] Posting something absurd [ ] Posting a post exceeding 32 Kilobytes like uuencoded text! [ ] Posting Scientology crap [ ] Advertising in Usenet [ ] Posting self flattery, GIFs of self, etc. [ ] Posting a lot of hot air [ ] Insulting someone's signature file [ ] Posting six pages of [ ] Posting only quoted matieral without quoted material only adding anything at all adding three lines [ ] Having a signature file longer than 6 [ ] Having an unintelligible lines signature file (Geek code, [ ] Using a bad pun C source, binary, etc. [ ] Using an old joke (e.g. any Knock Knock) [ ] Posting unintelligibly [ ] Two words: *really* *weird* [ ] Posting the two hundredth [ ] Quoting more text than you add yourself. in a long line of nasty [ ] Spreading a flamewar from one newsgroup or stupid or off topic posts. into others [ ] Having more than 5 [ ] Saluting drug use instead of condemning conspicuous spelling or it grammatical errors in your [ ] Posting bad ascii art post [ ] Posting sexually suggestive material [ ] Posting bad non-pun humor to a non-sex newsgroup [ ] Criticising someone else's [ ] Posting after surviving braindeath spelling or grammar [ ] Nonconstructive criticism [ ] Posting hate messages [ ] Plotting to overthrow the elected [ ] Posting many copies government of a country of the same exact message [ ] Posting to alt.sex.intergen [ ] Posting at 4 AM and [ ] Posting anything that pops into your expecting it to make sense head without thinking it over twice [ ] Starting your favorite [ ] Starting a newsreader, pulling out the newsreader, choosing Post TCP cable, and puking into the end of it Article, sneezing violently [ ] This is the result of experimental direct on the keyboard, and clicking brain-to-computer linkage, tried on a guy the Send command with a forever angry mind [ ] This is the result of a [ ] The man looked out the window, saw the direct brain-to-computer twister about to hit, and quickly linkage with the cable typed in his eulogy, immortalising his plugged in backwards usual state of mind [ ] Posting while drunk [ ] Posting while asleep [X] Posting while stoned [ ] Other: _____________________________ You may rescind your crime and reform by: [ ] Getting in trouble to lose your AOL account [X] Reading the newsgroup FAQ (for each newsgroup into which you crossposted) [X] Taking said FAQs and copying them out longhand 10 times each [X] Not doing it again [X] Apologising to the Great Gods of Usenet and Bob [X] Apologising to the FAQ maintainer [ ] Apologising to the moderator [ ] Making room for the FAQs in your webspace and posting them there [X] Busting up your PC with a hammer and buying a Mac [ ] Learning how to use a DOS prompt [ ] "Upgrading" to Windows 95 [ ] Using Unix for a week on your computer [X] Changing to an internet provider such that you must learn Unix to read and post Usenet news [ ] Learning to spell [ ] Learning grammar [ ] Taking art classes [ ] Taking three additional full credit or six half credit University courses in the Arts and Humanities [ ] Removing the "f" key on your keyboard for one week [ ] Taking three weeks of kindergarten classes to learn all about Warm Fuzzies and Cold Pricklies, that you may never flame again [X] Doing ten hours of library research using OpenText or Webcrawler to find everything on the internet about all of the following: (X) Fungi (X) Lower intestinal parasites (X) Politics ( ) Fractals ( ) Multiphasic phase discriminators [oo a toughie] ( ) C coding (X) Cray computer innards ( ) Smashing Pumpkins (X) Elephants(X) Fossilised dung [ick] (X) Star Trek [ ] Writing out all said research longhand, framing it, and putting it on your walls [ ] Replacing the offending .signature [ ] Packing up your computer and moving to Cygnus X; be sure to select a home inside the event horizon of the black hole there. That way your obnoxious postings can never get outside even at the speed of light! [ ] Irradiating yourself with X-rays to help clean up the gene pool [ ] Finding someone willing to sell you a bridge, and taking them up on their offer [X] Going to alt.flame and reposting this piece of crap there [X] Contributing good topics and thoughts to the newsgroup(s) [X] Writing a five paragraph essay no less than 1000 words on the purpose, structure, and main topics of the nerwsgroup(s) [ ] Posting this essay to the newsgroup(s) so that it can be laughed at and flamed [ ] Becoming Amish [ ] Becoming a Priest, Nun, or Monk with all the restrictions this implies [ ] Removing yourself from the net (you are hopeless) [ ] Removing yourself from existence (you are really hopeless) -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line." ,------------------------------------------------ -- B. Mandelbrot | Paul Derbyshire (PGD) ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca