[Wolves] Top quoting, bottom quoting, bloody everything quoting

[Matthew Revell]

Simon Burke wrote:

> On 22/3/04 1:53 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:44, Simon Burke wrote:
>>
>>>On 22/3/04 1:23 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:11, Simon Burke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On 22/3/04 12:35 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 12:25, Simon Burke wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On 22/3/04 11:55 am, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.couk>
>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:40, Simon Burke wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On 22/3/04 10:34 am, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.couk>
>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>----<snip>------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>10% Raise?!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Yeah I was hoping for 20% but they got me down to 10%, its still better
>>>>>>>than
>>>>>>>what I was on, and at the end of this contract I will have a mcse :( and
>>>>>>>hopefully a CCNA :) so can leave this hell hole
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ooh you ungrateful shwine-er-hunt (bad German impression) all zat luvley
>>>>>>free training unt qualification mit ze kompanie you vork for.
>>>>>>(back to English, fed up with that) Your just like the Nurses get all
>>>>>>that free training then sod off to Saudi Arabia and earn lots of
>>>>>>disgusting cash.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>HMm Hang on a minute, my name is sheik Abudi....................
>>>>>
>>>>>If this company wasn¹t so two bit I would stay, they even said that it will
>>>>>be a term of the contract that if they can afford to keep me they will let
>>>>>me go, so that to me says, go do your best to get a stable job. Though
>>>>>using
>>>>>them like this is a mutual one, because they are using me too because they
>>>>>only hired me initially to setup the mac's being based on freeBSD. Which
>>>>>was
>>>>>what I was playing with at the time, since then they are now starting to
>>>>>get
>>>>>me to do some imaging and A/V support
>>>>
>>>>Ah so you are an abused child?
>>>
>>>Erm.... The only pain I've had recently is working with active directory and
>>>MS server 2003 :(( I think I'm going to brign in my spare linux server and
>>>watch him destry it like he always does. I think they got it right when they
>>>said:
>>>
>>>$> SELECT * FROM management WHERE clue > 0
>>>0 rows retuned
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Now im on RH Enterprise Server As and Oracle 10G.
>>>>>
>>>>>Its funny trying to get oracle to work on one of my older machines. Thought
>>>>>I'd try to install it on an old machine with a celeron 466 with 256RAM, oh
>>>>>wow it fell over after half a day of trying. Remind me the time I had fun
>>>>>with a load of old rage pros and played with them to see how far we could
>>>>>overclock them. We stopped after one got that hot it fused itself to the
>>>>>mobo. Don¹t you just love the machines that work throws away, so much fun
>>>>>blowing them up
>>>>
>>>>I'd like to introduce myself, I'm an officer of the POCTCS (Prevention
>>>>of cruelty to computer systems), by this statement you admit to wilfully
>>>>murdering defenceless equipment, we have a special room for people like
>>>>you! 20 minutes in the shower with Mr Big should stop you offending.
>>>>
>>>But but but. Damn I didn¹t want to do this, I have an Acorn A3010 hostage if
>>>anyone tries something little RISCy here gets it
>>
>>(Through a megaphone) "OK Machine gun Simon put the kernel down and move
>>away from the machine", "We've got a killer rabbit here and we're not
>>afraid to use it"
> 
> No not the rabbit I surrender!!! please not the rabbit..  Anything but the
> rabbit?? Is it a white rabbit?? I change my mind I wont give up unless its a
> white rabbit.

Sorry for using your thread as an example, Peter and Simon.

Guys, now tell me that top posting is any more evil than bottom posting 
:) It's indiscriminate quoting that is evil :)

Again, sorry Peter and Simon!


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Cheers,

Matthew Revell.

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