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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: Omar again!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.054050.1831@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1e622qINNdur@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Nov18.033507.20401@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1eihf4INNsl1@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:40:50 GMT
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- In article <1eihf4INNsl1@morrow.stanford.edu> techie@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Bob Vaughan) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.033507.20401@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>Not sure if this is an Omar story, but:
- >>>>
- >>>>Friday 11/13 at around 15:45 or so local time I was in the UTSA computer
- >>>>lab and on a lark logged on the IRC and started checking out channels.
- >>>>Well, I hit channel 3 and laneded right in the middle of a discussion
- >>>>between a user named Pekka in Norway and a user named....OMAR!
- >>>>The time this Omar gave as his local time was 14:45 (EST), so could this
- >>>>have been the infamous Omar who is so often talked about in this
- >>>>newsgroup??
- >>>>Simon
- >>>
- >>Sorry about the typo-I meant 16:45 as the time given by this 'Omar' on the
- >>IRC. I have trouble using the IRC when logged in from my home PC (bad modem
- >>software, lousy terminal emulation) so I'll be in the computer lab on Friday.
- >>Now, what do I do if it is indeed the infamous Omar?? Is he really as bad as
- >>you all say he is?? Simon
- >
- >I just checked with nickserv (the IRC nickname server), and the nickname
- >"Omar" is registered to someone at princeton.. So, no, it's not him..
- >
- The IRC was dead last Friday afternoon (11/20), and I left early (to go see
- my girlfriend :-) ) so I didn't run into. Oh well.
-
- Now, I have some amusing stories about two guys I know, that are similar to
- the other Omar/annoying person stories posted here, although they didn't
- occur in the college world. So, would they be appropriate here??
- ( I posted this before but I don't know if they got read)
- Simon
-