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  Garfield July 8 peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-07-10 21:36 -0700
    Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 05:05 +0000
      Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-11 04:30 -0700
      Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 13:12 -0700
        Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 20:18 +0000
          Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 14:00 -0700
            Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:50 -0700
              Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:00 +0000
          Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:53 -0700
            Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:04 +0000
              Re: Garfield July 8 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:20 -0400
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 15:23 +0000
                  Re: Garfield July 8 Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0300
                    Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 20:41 +0000
                      Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:59 -0700
                        Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:14 +0000
                      Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 14:07 -0700
                        Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0000
                          Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-15 17:20 -0700
                          Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 20:37 -0700
                            Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 17:27 +0000
                              Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-16 11:29 -0700
                                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 19:48 +0000
                  Re: Garfield July 8 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-07-15 17:57 -0600
              Re: Garfield July 8 Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:53 -0400
              Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:58 -0700

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#494920

In article <19b00107-cf94-4c38-9b9c-4679c6082d5a@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 5:30:05 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>
>> And apparently it's a *fictional* radio show.
>
>You're welcome. Possibly, though, I could be mistaken. The novel was based on a 
>short story - The Santa Claus Murders - and perhaps the short story, unlike the 
>novel, did refer to a real radio show.

That's a thought!  Can your google-fu find a summary of the
story, with the original radio show named?

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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#494923

On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:30:12 AM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <19b00107-cf94-4c38-9b9c-4679c6082d5a@googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 5:30:05 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> >
> >> And apparently it's a *fictional* radio show.
> >
> >You're welcome. Possibly, though, I could be mistaken. The novel was based on a 
> >short story - The Santa Claus Murders - and perhaps the short story, unlike the 
> >novel, did refer to a real radio show.
> 
> That's a thought!  Can your google-fu find a summary of the
> story, with the original radio show named?

Unfortunately, I had been looking. Indeed, it's possible the story you 
remembered was a completely different one.

John Savard

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#494936

In article <48121406-b69b-4ba7-bb48-17775db825fd@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:30:12 AM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <19b00107-cf94-4c38-9b9c-4679c6082d5a@googlegroups.com>,
>> Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>> >On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 5:30:05 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> >
>> >> And apparently it's a *fictional* radio show.
>> >
>> >You're welcome. Possibly, though, I could be mistaken. The novel was
>based on a 
>> >short story - The Santa Claus Murders - and perhaps the short story,
>unlike the 
>> >novel, did refer to a real radio show.
>> 
>> That's a thought!  Can your google-fu find a summary of the
>> story, with the original radio show named?
>
>Unfortunately, I had been looking. Indeed, it's possible the story you 
>remembered was a completely different one.

Well, I never read it, only read about it, and the gist was (a)
mystery, (b) by Fredric Brown, and (c) the only way the reader
could guess whodunit was by knowing about a real-world 1940s
radio show.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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#494897

djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

>Maybe a better gate process would to be to ask a question that
>no one under age would know the answer to?  I don't know what
>such a question could be.  Ask questions about Y2K?  No, I'm not
>serious.  Ask questions about 2000-era rock music?  *I* couldn't
>answer those, and I'll never see eighteen again.

I remember a website from the very early days of the web that asked
you a dozen questions or so and decided whether you were old enoughto
enter.  I have no memory of what the questions were or what their
heuristics were.


-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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#494865

On 15 Jul 2018, Dorothy J Heydt wrote
(in article <pBwv35.Fvw@kithrup.com>):

> In article<492d34d2-25a7-4dea-bb7a-49dfb7757478@googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>  wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 2:45:03 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> > > In article<378faf04-194b-4b41-a3a7-f15a2cec4eeb@googlegroups.com>,
> > > Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I had to click on an alarmingly peremptory "SUBMIT!"
> > > > button. I wonder what I just submitted to.
> >
> > > Acknowledging that you are not a dog, IIRC.
> >
> > As the previous reply noted, the peremptory SUBMIT button was there in
> > response
> > to COPPA. Thus, in order to authorize them to save advertising cookies about
> > you, you first had to declare, under penalty of perjury, that you were at
> > least
> > 13 years old.
> >
> > I guess it's better to throw 12-year-olds in jail than to invade their
> > privacy
> > or something.
>
> Well, it's not for the children's benefit, as you know very well;
> it's to reassure parents that their little darlings won't read
> anything naughty. I can't remember ever seeing anything naughty
> in _Garfield_,

That depends on your definitions. _Something_ happened to Lyman. Did Jon feed 
him, screaming, into a meat grinder to make mince for Garfield’s lasagna? 
Did Nermal and Pooky drag him down to the basement for ‘games’? (Davis 
himself says that no-one should check inside the basement...) We don’t see. 
But we _do_ see Garfield try to murder Odie, over and over and over again. 
Perhaps attempted canicide by kicking off a tabletop isn’t naughty enough. 
(It does, however, raise the question of who lets a beagle loose on a 
tabletop, anyway? Jon’s not only guilty, guilty, GUILTY of feeding Lyman to 
Garfield, he’s also a few short of a case. Poking fun at the mentally 
challenged is naughty in of itself, though I have been guilty of _that_ 
myself. (Hi, Keith!)
> and I did not attempt to tell the filter I was
> either a dog or an underage human. Does the filter (did anyone
> try?) actually bounce you if you say you are an underage human?
> And what's to prevent you from lying to it?

Garfield and Nermal will hunt you down if you try. Pookie will reveal his 
True Nature as a drop bear. A fascist with a dead muskrat on his head will 
roam the corridors of the White House. (Hmm. That’s already happening. 
Scratch that.)

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#494883

On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 8:15:03 AM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
 
> Well, it's not for the children's benefit, as you know very well;
> it's to reassure parents that their little darlings won't read
> anything naughty.  I can't remember ever seeing anything naughty
> in _Garfield_, and I did not attempt to tell the filter I was
> either a dog or an underage human.

It's not about naughty content in the case of Garfield.

To protect children from being tracked by those with sinister motives, the 
United States enacted a law strictly regulating the information that web sites 
can retain about children under the age of 13.

So, sinde the site uses cookies to make more money on its advertising, it has to 
turn that off if you're under 13. You may still be able to read the comic 
anyways if they're feeling generous.

John Savard

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