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- From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: q(.)(.)lth-less-ness
- Message-ID: <9301120345.AA20856@prg.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:45:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.213606.10341@black.ox.ac.uk>
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- Comment: feeble flames written while composing exam questions should be excused
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- Someone bleated...
-
- ( Subject: cool town
- )
- ( The following list of the most popular newsgroups in oxford was
- ) posted locally, what a whacky and happening place this truly is
-
- There is nothing qool, whacky, nor in the least bit bizarre about statistics
- collected on the poor hoggets who have to fight the ever-helpful OUCS to be
- able to read news. Damn it all, I carefully avoid reading newsfroups like
- oucs.publicly.snooping.on.its.users and oucs.extremely.boring.statistics and
- oucs.ooooh.look.reese.posted.thirteen.articles.to.talk.bizarre just so that
- I don't have to see this sort of cock-eyed codswallop.
-
- Nor is there anything in the very least bit bizarre about Oxford University
- Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, UK (achh, pffft) either, bless their
- grubby little cotton socks. Oh well, maybe: calling them a Service perhaps.
- Over the last month all they have done for me is to switch other people's
- equipment off while I was using it, at next to no notice and at various
- unadvertised random times guaranteed to maximise my irritation. (Who me?
- Too much caffeine? I beg to differ in the strongest possible terms!) Mind
- you, perhaps that is what they think it takes to be a real Qumputinsurvitz.
-
- The one thing that /can/ be said for OUCS is that it was probably the original
- for the Man From U.N.C.L.E.: you might think those are innocent enough looking
- Georgian houses, but go through the hallway and in through that even more
- innocent looking little door in the back and lo and behold, what do you find?
- Rooms full of antiquated '60s equipment, just like the U.N.C.L.E. bunkers.
- (
- ) Tom Weston thchemb4@black.oxford.ac.uk
- (
- Oh.
- A bloody alchemist. And a theoretical one at that.
- Probably does not even make his own explosives.
- I pray you, kindly depart this froup and this life.
- ___
- I wonder why all my correspondence with the (Acting) Director of OUCS is
- conducted in a pair of mutually unintelligible languages with ostensibly
- polite but clipped formality?
-