[Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words

[Dodi Schultz]

Chris and Mike: Thank you!

Anybody else who sees my request for a copy of this week's issue:
Never mind--got it now!

Once before, it didn't arrive, and I wrote to Michael Quinion,
who said the distributing agent had had some sort of issue with
CompuServe addresses. Since then, it's been okay--until today.
I've now registered an alternative e-mail address with his
list-handler, and we'll see if that works.

It's always something. < sigh >

--Dodi

[Paul Keating]

Maybe you should let us, and the Google group, have that alternative
address, too.

CompuServe is high-handed and picky. There was a period of about 2 years or
so when it banned all mail emanating from the biggest ISP in Holland
(including both me and Hugo and about 5 million other households and
businesses) with no prospect of review or even any avenue of complaint. And
it tells neither sender nor recipient it's decided not to deliver.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodi Schultz" <schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
To: <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 11:23 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words


> I've now registered an alternative e-mail address with his
> list-handler, and we'll see if that works.

[France International]

Paul,

Good to see you back. I thought maybe you'd gone missing like Russ.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Keating" <keating (AT) acm (DOT) org>
To: <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words


> Maybe you should let us, and the Google group, have that alternative
> address, too.
>
> CompuServe is high-handed and picky. There was a period of about 2 years
> or
> so when it banned all mail emanating from the biggest ISP in Holland
> (including both me and Hugo and about 5 million other households and
> businesses) with no prospect of review or even any avenue of complaint.
> And
> it tells neither sender nor recipient it's decided not to deliver.
>
> --
> Paul Keating
> The Hague
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dodi Schultz" <schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
> To: <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 11:23 PM
> Subject: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words
>
>
>> I've now registered an alternative e-mail address with his
>> list-handler, and we'll see if that works.
>


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02:39:00

[Dodi Schultz]

> Maybe you should let us, and the Google group, have that
> alternative address, too.
>
> CompuServe is high-handed and picky. There was a period of
> about 2 years or so when it banned all mail emanating from the
> biggest ISP in Holland (including both me and Hugo and about 5
> million other households and businesses) with no prospect of
> review or even any avenue of complaint. And it tells neither
> sender nor recipient it's decided not to deliver.

That's a good thought, Paul.

It's time, anyway, that I redid the in-group list. We also have
another player at CompuServe, as well as one with an AOL address
(same Webmail site), and I'll try to include secondary addresses
for them, as well. I'll get the information, do the update, and
as usual send to all members of the group.

--Dodi

[Paul Keating]

Well, I did go missing, but not like Russ. I was cruising the Nile with
limited bandwith, and what bandwidth there was my wife was using. And the
week afterwards, when we lay in the sun and recovered from tramping though
all those temples, there was no internet access at all, except from the
hotel's computers, at price we were disinclined to pay; let alone that they
were probably infested with keyloggers and other nasties.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "France International" <stamps (AT) salsgiver (DOT) com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words


> Good to see you back. I thought maybe you'd gone missing like Russ.

[France International]

I didn't realize you could cruise the Nile on bandwidth.

She sailed away on a bright and sunny day,
On the back of a crocodile.
"Tee-hee," said she,
"He's as tame as tame can be,
I'll ride him down the Nile."

The croc' winked his eye,
As she waved them all good-bye,
Wearing a happy smile.
But at the end of the ride,
The lady was inside,
And the smile was on the Crocodile.



--Mike



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Keating" <keating (AT) acm (DOT) org>
To: <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words


> Well, I did go missing, but not like Russ. I was cruising the Nile with
> limited bandwith, and what bandwidth there was my wife was using. And the
> week afterwards, when we lay in the sun and recovered from tramping though
> all those temples, there was no internet access at all, except from the
> hotel's computers, at price we were disinclined to pay; let alone that
> they
> were probably infested with keyloggers and other nasties.
>
> --
> Paul Keating
> The Hague
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "France International" <stamps (AT) salsgiver (DOT) com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 12:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words
>
>
>> Good to see you back. I thought maybe you'd gone missing like Russ.
>
>


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[Dodi Schultz]

Mike wrote:

> She sailed away on a bright and sunny day,
> On the back of a crocodile.
> "Tee-hee," said she,
> "He's as tame as tame can be,
> I'll ride him down the Nile."
>
> The croc' winked his eye,
> As she waved them all good-bye,
> Wearing a happy smile.
> But at the end of the ride,
> The lady was inside,
> And the smile was on the Crocodile.

That doesn't scan properly!

[France International]

Crocodiles are not very good poets.

--Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodi Schultz" <schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
To: <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words


> Mike wrote:
>
>> She sailed away on a bright and sunny day,
>> On the back of a crocodile.
>> "Tee-hee," said she,
>> "He's as tame as tame can be,
>> I'll ride him down the Nile."
>>
>> The croc' winked his eye,
>> As she waved them all good-bye,
>> Wearing a happy smile.
>> But at the end of the ride,
>> The lady was inside,
>> And the smile was on the Crocodile.
>
> That doesn't scan properly!
>


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[Dodi Schultz]

> Crocodiles are not very good poets.
>
> --Mike

LOL!

It's amusing nonettheless.

[EnDash@aol.com]

It's fun just the same. Always got the interest and amusement of the
kiddies my wife used to recite it to at school.


In a message dated 3/7/2010 11:19:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com writes:

Mike wrote:

> She sailed away on a bright and sunny day,
> On the back of a crocodile.
> "Tee-hee," said she,
> "He's as tame as tame can be,
> I'll ride him down the Nile."
>
> The croc' winked his eye,
> As she waved them all good-bye,
> Wearing a happy smile.
> But at the end of the ride,
> The lady was inside,
> And the smile was on the Crocodile.

That doesn't scan properly!

[France International]

When my wife was in grade school, she and a classmate had to team up to write a report on pelicans. Being a good student, she did her research and produced a nice report. Her partner's contribution to the report, however, consisted solely of the lines:

A very strange bird is the pelican,
It's beak can hold more than its belly can.

Needless to say, the teacher was not amused.

--Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: EnDash (AT) aol (DOT) com
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] World Wide Words


It's fun just the same. Always got the interest and amusement of the kiddies my wife used to recite it to at school.

In a message dated 3/7/2010 11:19:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com writes:
Mike wrote:

> She sailed away on a bright and sunny day,
> On the back of a crocodile.
> "Tee-hee," said she,
> "He's as tame as tame can be,
> I'll ride him down the Nile."
>
> The croc' winked his eye,
> As she waved them all good-bye,
> Wearing a happy smile.
> But at the end of the ride,
> The lady was inside,
> And the smile was on the Crocodile.

That doesn't scan properly!



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