From: "Rebecca Slitt (MC 1997)" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Emma as Brown and Erica Queen of RASFWR-J Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 11:38:06 -0400 Message-ID: Rick Moen wrote: > In , cavness@ ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kenneth Cavness) writes: > >In article <3vc5fi$rqm@ari.net>, korda@mtolympus.ari.net (P. Korda) wrote: > >> 1) Contrary to popular belief, Erica is not the Queen. She trancends > >> Queenliness. Empress, maybe? Perhaps Pope/Popess? High Priestess? > >the Grand Poobah? > Eh? Did someone mention Gilbert and Sullivan? > Hmmm. Let's try this one out: > "I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, > of pre-rasfw ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell > you that I can trace my ancestry back to the Great Renaming. Consequently, > my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born > sneering." With deepest apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan... I am the very model of a modern Rasfwrjian I've information Lugarder, Domani and Murandian, I know how long it takes to walk from Shayol Ghul to Caemlyn And just how black the veil is on each single black-veiled Aielman I've trolls of every shape and size and use them to fool Timmybot, I know my nieces and my mom and just how many sons I've got, I know who came from Seanchan and who's on the way to Ebou Dar, I know about the Oath Rod and I wrote the rulse of T'A'R I bait Novak and Oilcan and I live to see another day, I help the newbies, read the FAQ, [there is no cabal anyway], I don't know any words to fit the rhythm of this flaming line, But I was first to know the definition of a...nevermind Of Unosisters, fish jokes and cascades I can converse quite well. Is Moiraine dead? Is Verin black? I know of course, but I won't tell In short, I'll say before this thread can turn into a TAN, I am the very model of a modern Rasfwrjian! Becky/Nynaeve -- Becky Slitt "I disagree with what you say, but rslitt@minerva.cis.yale.edu I will defend to the death your Most Superlative Woman on the Net right to say it" - Voltaire mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmLONG LIVE MAGEVET AND THE MIDDLE AGESmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm From: rick@ymir.imat.com (Rick Moen) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: Re: Race and heredity (technical) Date: 14 Aug 1995 23:04:17 GMT Organization: Utopia, Ltd. Message-ID: <40okph$ojb@myrddin.imat.com> In , eaobrien@ebi.ac.uk (Emmet O'Brien) writes: >In article <1995Aug11.090836.16933@nomina.lu.se> Magnus.Thoren@planteco.lu. >se (Magnus) writes: >>IIRC, Timmybot has .us in the end, which obviously proves that he is as >>real as anyone. > > It's an uncabal identifier, which goes after the country code, thus .ca.us is > a Canadian who has no connection with the cabal[there is no cabal]. Similarly, > the cabal [there is no cabal] use .them after the country code. Gee. Here I thought .us meant "untested software". Ahem... "For he _is_ a .us man. For he himself has said it, In a post he forgot to edit, That he is a .us man! That he is a .us man! For he might have been a .se-er A .gov, or .net, or .mil-ler Or perhaps an .oilcan! But despite modifications, He's a 'bot of our nation, Escapee from someone's .plan." {profuse apologies to the shades of G&S) Cheers, My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my Rick Moen parent process. Prepare to vi. rick@hugin.imat.com aka Rick, son of Artur (no kidding!), son of Arne