"Brian" <bandj@o2.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 2007-06-08, Ivor Jones <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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> > "Desk Rabbit" <nospam@example.com> wrote in message
> > news:eN2dnYqj6uLf3vTbRVnyhAA@pipex.net[color=darkred]
> > > Ivor Jones wrote:[/color]
> >
> > [snip]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > > Referring to dictionaries will do you no good, it
> > > > didn't work for the forum/newsgroup debacle and it
> > > > won't work now.
> > >
> > > I guess not because your definition of spam and
> > > adverts are not the same as the rest of the planet.
> > > Guess I should look in the "Ivor book of words I
> > > mangled" Do you have the ISBN number?[/color]
> >
> > The whole rest of the planet..? Are you sure..?[/color]
>
> Interpreting hyperbole literally is rarely successful in
> an argument.
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> > You have the option of killfiling me, why don't you..?[/color]
>
> You are very fond of suggesting this. Listening and
> responding is part of being human and integral to social
> intercourse. Why seek to limit it?[/color]

Because, basically, I'm fed up with the same old responses time after
time. If you don't agree with me or don't like it, don't respond.
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> > I can only assume it's because you're enjoying the
> > whole thing.[/color]
>
> Maybe he is deriving some intellectual enjoyment but if
> that is the only assumption you can think of you haven't
> digested the thrust of the many messages in this thread.[/color]

Maybe.
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> > Far be it
> > from me to stop you having fun, cary on. But you'll
> > tire before I do.[/color]
>
> Translation: 'I've got my hands over my ears'[/color]

Not at all. I have a perfectly good pair of earplugs.

Ivor