Yeah. Some of us have known each other, virtually, for yonks.

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Yeah. Some of us have known each other, virtually, for yonks.

Mary Anne — 9/18/2004 12:25:57 PM (archived)

So there's a lot of "cut to the chase" editing in our posts. Also "go for the jugular" editing, because we know where to go.

My daughter just recently started to hang out here, and has noticed a certain savage grace in the subject line wars.

It's a unique place. As Tolstoy said, "Happy families are all the same. Unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way."

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All Things Point to North Korea Nuclear Detonation - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 4:30:53 AM
- No microwave pulse + No siesmic pulse = No nuclear explostion (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 2:12:23 PM
- IAEA Chief Says Cannot Rule Out Korea Nuke Blast - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/19/2004 9:40:20 PM
- Nuclear blasts have a characteristic, double pulse, seismic pattern. - jms - 9/18/2004 2:30:19 PM
  - Plus we have a bunch of satellite hosted NUDET detectors - Larry J - 9/19/2004 1:15:56 PM
  - "It was determined that nothing unusual had been picked up" - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 6:01:07 PM
    - When it comes to nukes, I don't trust any country. - jms - 9/18/2004 7:20:15 PM
      - South Africa shot off a couple nukes that were never really reported - Gary - 9/18/2004 9:26:08 PM
        
        Do you ever wonder... - jms - 9/18/2004 11:10:26 PM
- A large conventional explosion could account for all of that except the radioactive questions (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/18/2004 12:34:40 PM
- There's a tough crowd here. (n/t) - sean - 9/18/2004 12:04:47 PM
  - Oh there are about twenty folks... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 6:34:15 PM
    - I hope you don't keep your sister locked up in the basement. (n/t) - jms - 9/18/2004 7:29:19 PM
    - Hello, Paris. How's your sister these days? - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 7:22:52 PM
      - Doing very well. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 8:02:56 PM
        
        re: Apollo - Raoul - 9/19/2004 12:31:01 AM
        
        Hector wasn't a drag until he was dragged. (n/t) - jms - 9/18/2004 8:47:52 PM
        
        That Achilles really was a heel, wasn't he? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 11:18:09 PM
        
        Achilles was a heel, but not a complete dip. (n/t) - jms - 9/18/2004 11:48:06 PM
        
        Call it a latent tendon-cy... (n/t) - Fox - 9/19/2004 2:18:25 PM
        
        Achilles was a heel 'cause his mother wouldn't let go of her little boy. (n/t) - jms - 9/19/2004 2:34:48 PM
        
        SHE'S DATING HER BROTHER??? - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 8:28:42 PM
        
        Recommended reading for mythology geeks: Messner-Loebs and Kieth's "Epicurus the Sage." - Tom Brosz - 9/18/2004 10:34:36 PM
        
        Those Greeks don't have an exclusive on creative relations... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 10:27:55 PM
  - Yeah. Some of us have known each other, virtually, for yonks. - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 12:25:57 PM
    - Tolstoy said that, huh! - Bowser - 9/18/2004 12:33:39 PM
      - In "Anna Karenina". One of the great first lines of all time. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 6:05:55 PM
- Nothing points to that, you idiot! - R.L. - 9/18/2004 10:38:07 AM
  - Technically, you are correct about the explosion. Perhaps you could have said it more politely. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 2:13:21 PM
- That just points to some blog. You said "all things", not some blog. - Bowser - 9/18/2004 4:46:49 AM
  - re: That just points to some blog. You said "all things", not some blog. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 4:59:46 AM

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