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### On laws and cautions

Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxmafia.com]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:34:42 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

    >
    > Ben's already been through the Phil Hughes crapfest, so he probably
    > already figured out that there's probably no further damage in the
    > present case other than noise.

Yeah, that kind of thing tends to give you a bit of armor, or at least a sense of amusement (or possibly boredom, after a while) when some slavering net.freakjob starts threatening and attacking you. I've also recently learned - and I'm not sure that the lesson has quite sunk in, so at some point, the Universe will teach it to me harder - to set a clock on the idiots. They can continue their blithering as long as I find it amusing; after that point, they get told "your nickel has run out. Behave, or get shut off - NOW."

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    * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

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Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:54:22 +0100

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 04:34:42PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:

    > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
    > >
    > > Ben's already been through the Phil Hughes crapfest, so he probably
    > > already figured out that there's probably no further damage in the
    > > present case other than noise.
    >
    > Yeah, that kind of thing tends to give you a bit of armor, or at least a
    > sense of amusement (or possibly boredom, after a while) when some
    > slavering net.freakjob starts threatening and attacking you. I've also
    > recently learned - and I'm not sure that the lesson has quite sunk in,
    > so at some point, the Universe will teach it to me harder - to set a
    > clock on the idiots. They can continue their blithering as long as I
    > find it amusing; after that point, they get told "your nickel has run
    > out. Behave, or get shut off - NOW."

I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing rapidly.

I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.

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    Steve

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:00:40 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:

    >
    > I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
    > wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
    > rapidly.
    >
    > I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.

Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to contemplate.

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    * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:12:16 +0100

2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:

    > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
    >>
    >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
    >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
    >> rapidly.
    >>
    >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
    >
    > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
    > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
    > contemplate.

Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some appeal, surely?

-- Thomas Adam

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Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:34:00 +0100

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

    > 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
    > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
    > >>
    > >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
    > >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
    > >> rapidly.
    > >>
    > >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
    > >
    > > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
    > > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
    > > contemplate.
    >
    > Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
    > appeal, surely?

I'd be happy if I could just touch my toes again. Mind you, I'd also be happy if I could see them whilst standing again. I have to lean so far forward now that I'd fall over if I didn't hold on to something ;-)

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    Steve

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:33:54 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

    > 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
    > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
    > >>
    > >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
    > >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
    > >> rapidly.
    > >>
    > >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
    > >
    > > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
    > > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
    > > contemplate.
    >
    > Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
    > appeal, surely?

    r!dict cankerous

    2 definitions found

     From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

      Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a.
         Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." --Thomson.
         [1913 Webster]

               Misdeem it not a cankerous change.       --Wordsworth.
         [1913 Webster]

     From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

      cankerous
          adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
                 {ulcerous}]

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    * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:37:53 +0100

2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:

    > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
    >> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
    >> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
    >> >>
    >> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
    >> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
    >> >> rapidly.
    >> >>
    >> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
    >> >
    >> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
    >> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
    >> > contemplate.
    >>
    >> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
    >> appeal, surely?
    >
    > ```
    > r!dict cankerous
    >
    > 2 definitions found
    >
    > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
    >
    >  Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a.
    >     Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." --Thomson.
    >     [1913 Webster]
    >
    >           Misdeem it not a cankerous change.       --Wordsworth.
    >     [1913 Webster]
    >
    > From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
    >
    >  cankerous
    >      adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
    >             {ulcerous}]
    > '''
    >
    >

Uh-huh, but I was being even more crafty:

can-keros

-- Thomas Adam

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:34:21 -0500

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:37:53PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

    > 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
    > >
    > > ```
    > > From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
    > >
    > >  cankerous
    > >      adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
    > >             {ulcerous}]
    > > '''
    > >
    > >
    >
    > Uh-huh, but I was being even more crafty:
    >
    > can-keros
    >
    >

Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your head, I don't know which. Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds "P.U."?

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    * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:32:11 +0100

2009/9/12 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:

    > Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your
    > head, I don't know which.  Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds
    > "P.U."?

Ha -- I thought most Americans would get this instantly, didn't they teach you at school to filter out English words with "u" in them?

-- Thomas Adam

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:34:09 -0500

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 06:32:11PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

    > 2009/9/12 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
    > > Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your
    > > head, I don't know which.  Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds
    > > "P.U."?
    >
    > Ha -- I thought most Americans would get this instantly, didn't they
    > teach you at school to filter out English words with "u" in them?

Nope; I missed the early indoctrination. You have to remember: I'm a dam' furriner, and didn't start learning English until my teen years. That's what makes me so dangerous: I don't even filter the fnords.

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    * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

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Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:28:12 +0100

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:00:40PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:

    > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
    > >
    > > I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
    > > wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
    > > rapidly.
    > >
    > > I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
    >
    > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
    > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
    > contemplate.

Oh bugger - here comes senility already - unfashionably early.

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