[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:05:36AM -0800, Bexley Hall wrote:
>
><grin>  Preaching to the choir!  '85 Monte Carlo w/ 66K original
>on it.  I figure I should be able to get *another* 20 years out
>of it since they don't use salt in Tucson!  :>  Apparently, MC's
>are sought after here in Tucson (?) -- as I am routinely
>approached by "strangers" offering to buy the car... *before*
>they even see the odometer!
>
>Though my insurance alone hits that $50/month figure -- almost
>exactly!  :-/

Oh, I like this game.  :)

My 2002 Kymco scooter has saved me an absolute fortune.  The $3K sticker
price, plus fuel & maintenance, plus insurance, gets me a seven year average
of about $60/month.  Being a poor student, I honestly can't see how I could
afford a car...

And you're right about it being a conversation starter.  I routinely have
people walk over at gas stations asking about it and the milage.  That
happened even more frequently when the gas prices were sky high.


But, slightly more on topic (just barely...), Robert Hunter said:

>PS. I'd like to hear about the stone-age postage sometime! ;-)

I've got a "pen pal" in Sweden.  Sort of.  In the stone age, that's what he
would have been, but we "met" because he used my Weasel Reader software and
contacted me via instant messange.  Now we chat a few times a week on all
sorts of topics, though most frequently it's Linux and OSS.

What would you call somebody like this?  A Net pen pal gets the idea across,
but it's not very accurate.  I know this is by no means a new phenomenon, so I
suspect somebody must have coined a term for this, right?


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