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>  Given that we are rather antisocial I bet our "conversation" would just
> be full of awkward periods of silence.
>  It could be a good way to pratice, though.

Have silence a special accent in Finnish and English? ;-)

Marc

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Kirk Andrews wrote:

> 
> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
> here?  :)
> 

Artists? POV-Ray and actual artists? Ha HA!

erm.... I suppose those can be accepted, too. (Seeing as we have a few 
of them, some quite good, too) :)

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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> 
> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
> here?  :)
> 
> 
As long as you don't mind having to sit on the floor cushions :-)

John

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finished," then he sat down.

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Invisible wrote:
> In short, these guys come, change a whole bunch of stuff, don't tell me 
> what they're doing or anything, leave, the government auditors arive, 
> and fry me for lunch.

With great responsibility comes great power, or words to that effect. 
You should be the only person who knows the passwords needed to change 
things you're responsible for.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:40:03 EDT, "Kirk Andrews"
> <kir### [at] tektonartcom> wrote:
> 
>> I've never spent much time
>> down here in the off-topic forum, but it seems there's a lively little
>> community thriving down here, hiding at the bottom of the newsgroup list.
>>
> 
> Yes, hiding in the dungeons out of sight of the mortals :)

No, that would be the two Haskell groups that sort below this one. ;-)

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
> here?  :)

Wouldn't artists actually not be off-topic? :-)

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> With great responsibility comes great power

  Wasn't it the other way around?-)

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Darren New wrote:
> Kirk Andrews wrote:
>> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for
>> those down
>> here?  :)
> 
> Wouldn't artists actually not be off-topic? :-)
> 
Whatever makes you think that PoV has got anything to do with art? ;-)

John

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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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>> I've been wondering to myself... if me and Warp ever met IRL, would we 
>> end up having a long intelligent conversation, or would one of us be 
>> hospitalised? ;-)
> 
>   Given that we are rather antisocial I bet our "conversation" would just
> be full of awkward periods of silence.

Mmm, perhaps.

>> [Actually, I gather that Warp's spoken English isn't as good as his 
>> written English, so maybe nothing much at all would happen. But who knows?]
> 
>   It could be a good way to pratice, though.

I won't argue with that...

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>> Yes, hiding in the dungeons out of sight of the mortals :)
> 
> No, that would be the two Haskell groups that sort below this one. ;-)

0wned.

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