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From: Darren Salt on 11 Apr 2008 19:23
I demand that Justin C may or may not have written...

[snip]
> 1: or MacAllan... that's the new fave (notice I've not put an age, it's all
> good, *damn* good. So, what are you waiting for, why aren't you emailing me
> and asking me for my address so you can send me a bottle? eh? Oh, hmmm. I
> see. OK. Well, thanks anyway[2].

> 2: it was worth a try, especially with Scotch at these prices.

What has the price of scotch to do with whisky? Or even this newsgroup, for
that matter?

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From: Justin C on 11 Apr 2008 20:01
On 2008-04-11, Darren Salt <news(a)youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
> I demand that Justin C may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
>> 1: or MacAllan... that's the new fave (notice I've not put an age, it's all
>> good, *damn* good. So, what are you waiting for, why aren't you emailing me
>> and asking me for my address so you can send me a bottle? eh? Oh, hmmm. I
>> see. OK. Well, thanks anyway[2].
>
>> 2: it was worth a try, especially with Scotch at these prices.
>
> What has the price of scotch to do with whisky? Or even this newsgroup, for
> that matter?

Philistine!

Justin.

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From: Darren Salt on 11 Apr 2008 21:08
I demand that Justin C may or may not have written...

> On 2008-04-11, Darren Salt <news(a)youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
>> I demand that Justin C may or may not have written...
>> [snip]
>>> 1: or MacAllan... that's the new fave (notice I've not put an age, it's
>>> all good, *damn* good. So, what are you waiting for, why aren't you
>>> emailing me and asking me for my address so you can send me a bottle?
>>> eh? Oh, hmmm. I see. OK. Well, thanks anyway[2].
>>> 2: it was worth a try, especially with Scotch at these prices.

>> What has the price of scotch to do with whisky? Or even this newsgroup,
>> for that matter?

> Philistine!

I'll drink to that ;-)

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From: Will Kemp on 12 Apr 2008 04:02
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:34:12 +0000, Justin C wrote:

> Jeez, I sound depressed tonight. Honestly, I'm not really, it just
> sounds that way... blame it on the beer... I'm a happy drunk on whisky,
> send a bottle of 16 yo Laphroaig and I'll prove it. :) [1]

Hmmm... You want to watch that! I learnt the hard way, years ago, that
writing messages on newsgroups when drunk is not a good idea! ;-)

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From: Daniel James on 12 Apr 2008 08:59
In article news:<slrnfvvpr4.673.justin.0804(a)stigmata.purestblue.com>,
Justin C wrote:
> > Not all versions of windows had zip included though. I can't
> > remember what version they started including it with as standard
> > - but it wasn't all that long ago.
>
> It wasn't in 98se. It is in XP. So, it came in in 2K, ME, or XP, who
> knows?

It's not in Win2k, so it came in with XP.

BTW: WinZip *does* understand .tgz files (but not .bz2 or some other
later *n*x archives), so you could suggest that your customers get that?

> Who cares?! I know I don't ...

OK, fair enough.

> ... why aren't you emailing me and asking me for my address so you
> can send me a bottle?

I'll send you an application form for the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, if
you like ... but you'll never want to drink that cheap watered-down
commercially bottled stuff again!

Cheers,
Daniel.
(Mmm ... Highland Park)





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