Re: Hello Acme

From	Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com>
Newsgroups	alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup
Subject	Re: Hello Acme
Date	2023-09-23 21:14 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<XnsB088AF6A142AFKamilot@135.181.20.170> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <udfta0$3l84n$1@dont-email.me> <XnsB07AAB9D3B7CKamilot@135.181.20.170> <ue4cak$3raqk$6@dont-email.me> <XnsB0828CC35A5B3Kamilot@135.181.20.170> <uekc39$a4ot$3@dont-email.me>

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BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in news:uekc39$a4ot$3@dont-email.me:

> On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:ue4cak$3raqk$6@dont-email.me: 
>> 
>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>> news:udfta0$3l84n$1@dont-email.me: 
>>>>
>>>>> On 06.09.2023 20.14, SpudTater wrote:
>>>>>> On 06/09/2023 09:31, BeH wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05.09.2023 09.53, SpudTater wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 05/09/2023 08:20, BeH wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 04.09.2023 21.44, SpudTater wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi all, it's certainly been a while.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Well hello there Mr. Tater. How is life...?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Haha, well, got an update for you right there, as it's no
>>>>>>>> longer Mr. Tater, but Mx. Tattie. And very much happier for it.
>>>>>>>> Still Acme's very own potato, though!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All righty then... So I use 'they' when I talk about you behind
>>>>>>> your back now? Not that I'll ever do that... talking behind
>>>>>>> someone's back, I mean.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You got it! I's a they.  8^)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I stuck around in Edinburgh after university, have a wife, a
>>>>>>>> programming job, and two cats. The years have kinda flown by
>>>>>>>> tbh. After leaving Usenet behind, have pinged from LiveJournal
>>>>>>>> to Dreamwidth to Facebook to Reddit to Mastodon. Maybe I should
>>>>>>>> have stuck right here!  8^D 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You would have been pretty much on your own here most of the
>>>>>>> time. I never had a facebook account and I feel utterly
>>>>>>> vindicated and rather smug about it now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So two cats? Merlyne has a cat. I have no cats. Also no wife. Or
>>>>>>> job... I spend a couple of years as self-employed consultant
>>>>>>> after rage-quitting and then retired and moved to the
>>>>>>> countryside. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can I ask what kind of work you do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm just a common-or-garden Java programmer, nothing too
>>>>>> exciting. Getting into front-end stuff more now, though.
>>>>> Careful with that. You may have to interact co-operatively with
>>>>> actual end-users... (Mostly kidding - talking with real people can
>>>>> be enlightening.
>>>>
>>>> Ok. I'll call you soon.
>>>
>>> You are not a customer of mine... I wouldn't know what to say.
>>>
>> 
>> I find that hard to believe.
>> Aren't ignored middle children usually garrulous?
> 
> Don't know about that. I'm certainly not. At my first real job I was
> at first nicknamed[1] Nilfisk (a venerable danish manufacturer of
> vacuum-cleaners) because they motto was "The quiet dane".
> 
> [1] By an annoyingly garrulous graphics designer/sales rep.

That is surprising since you always have a lot to say here.

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Hello Acme SpudTater <spud@flocci.org> - 2023-09-04 20:44 +0100
  Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-05 09:20 +0200
    Re: Hello Acme SpudTater <spud@flocci.org> - 2023-09-05 08:53 +0100
      Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-06 10:31 +0200
        Re: Hello Acme SpudTater <spud@flocci.org> - 2023-09-06 19:14 +0100
          Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-08 21:39 +0200
            Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-09 20:51 +0000
              Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 15:58 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-17 17:50 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-22 17:32 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-23 21:14 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 21:40 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-26 12:11 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-10-03 01:13 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-04 14:13 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-10-12 17:00 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-18 11:55 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-10-21 23:45 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-25 14:26 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 22:10 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-08 13:11 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-20 01:27 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-22 13:33 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-26 04:43 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-29 14:56 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-12-08 01:40 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-12-18 19:45 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 15:52 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-01-07 22:21 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 14:48 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-01-14 15:02 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-02-01 14:51 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-02-11 14:49 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-02-23 00:12 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-02-24 20:56 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-03-12 00:24 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-03-12 13:30 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-03-26 20:13 +0100
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-03-31 20:39 +0000
                Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2024-04-07 15:31 +0200
                Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2024-04-07 15:29 +0000
      Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-06 12:22 +0000
    Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-06 12:22 +0000
      Re: Hello Acme BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-09-08 21:43 +0200
        Re: Hello Acme Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-09-09 20:51 +0000

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