>> Well, that's true, but most typical Usenet discussions are pointless
>> anyway. Mostly it's people nitpicking each other over trivia or
>> demonstrating their failure to understand the concept of civilised
>> discussion or asking others to do their homework for them or doing
>> their homework for them or refusing to do their homework for them or
>> explaining why they are refusing to do their homework for them or
>> explaining that it really truly honestly isn't homework even though it
>> looks a bit like it or attempting to persuade you to buy
>> pharmaceutical goods from strangers over the Internet that you would
>> hesitate to accept as a gift from the family doctor you've known and
>> loved for thirty years or nodding to each other over in-jokes the
>> point of which was reasonably well-known a decade ago but is now known
>> only to four or five people currently using the group or complaints
>> about topicality or complaints about complaints about topicality or
>> complaints about complaints about complaints about topicality or
>> plugging their religion or attacking their religion or explaining why
>> it is not a good idea to plug a religion or attack a religion on
>> Usenet or a statistical analysis of pointless discussions of the last
>> month broken down by poster frequency and by newsreader and by
>> original text and by any useless category you can think of or people
>> posting replies that demonstrate beyond doubt that they have either
>> not read or at least not understood the post to which they are
>> replying or people trying to persuade you to use their rather lame
>> excuse for an open source software package or people posting just to
>> say how deeply and abidingly they hate everything that some other
>> person stands for on the rather tenuous assumption that anyone else
>> has the slightest interest or people taking a stab at posting the
>> longest sentence without commas in the history of
comp.programming
>> that anyone can remember without actually checking on the pretext of
>> ranting about how pointless most typical Usenet discussions are and
>> then telling you that the sentence in question contains 337 words.
>
> I still prefer Joyce. "...I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put
> the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red
> yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as
> well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes
> and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first
> I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my
> breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said
> yes I will Yes." has more class for ending a 20-page sentence than the
> above. <
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