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Re: Missing Person.

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Blaine wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > bliss wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
> >>>>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
> >>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
> >>>>> we can do to follow up.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
> >>>>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
> >>>>> often there's no trace.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> pt
> >>>>
> >>>> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
> >>>> Usenet?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
> >>>
> >>> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
> >>>
> >>> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
> >>>
> >>> pt
> >>
> >>          Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
> >> ignorant stuff people were writing.  AS well as the
> >> Trollish cross-postings
> >>          I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
> >> I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
> >> directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
> >> get the new installation working...
> >> Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
> >> I load in Thunderbird.  The old profile was fubar so
> >> I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
> >> without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
> >>          Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
> >> else but someone who might be doing horrible
> >> things otherwise.  I might have been cooking something
> >> if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
> >> this stuff.
> >>
> >>          bliss
> >
> > The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own
> > crosspostings????
> 
> You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
> my own eyes, Stargozer.

Can you read English?


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Subject: Re: The Enshittification Of Lord Of The Rings
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:12:14 -0400, The True Melissa
<thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

>Verily, in article <10q94gr$qon8$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com=20
>deliver unto us this message:
>> And this is just more of the same. And yes, Colbert and his kid are =
writing
>> it.
>
>Oh boy.
>
>
>> It's not a sequel as the original post claimed. It's the Tom Bombadil
>> chapters from FELLOWSHIP that Peter Jackson cut from the script to =
keep the
>> movie from being four hours long instead of just two and change.
>
>That actually sounds like a good idea for extra content. Everyone loves=20
>Tom Bombadil, even though Tolkein himself said we were all making too=20
>much of him.
>
>Let's hope the Colberts pere and fil have the hidden chops to do it=20
>right.=20

But ... but ... but

-- if they do it "right" in the sense of following JRRT's story, it
will not agree with the other films, which tell PJ's version.
-- if the do it "right" in the sense of being compatible with PJ's
film, then it will not agree with JRRT's story

It cannot be "right" in both senses.

=46or example:
-- in JRRT's story, the Hobbits obtain their swords from the
Barrow-Wights barrow
-- in PJ's story, the Hobbits obtain their swords from Aragorn, who
(presumably) went to the nearest cache of Hobbit-sized swords and
brought four back (one must imagine many such sites scattered
throughout the North for this to work) to Weathertop

So either they don't get their swords in the barrow, in which case the
film will be missing an important scene from the book, or PJ's film is
shown to be=20

wrong! wrong! wrong!

which, of course, it is in many ways.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"







-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 09:28 -0700
  Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-22 16:38 -0400
    Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 14:16 -0700
    Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 16:57 -0700
      Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-22 18:26 -0600
        Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-22 21:09 -0700
        Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 21:49 -0700
          Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-23 12:33 -0600
            Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:34 -0700
              Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-23 14:36 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-24 05:03 +0800
              Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:46 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-23 23:20 -0400
              Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 08:41 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-26 12:32 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-26 11:50 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-10-26 15:33 -0400
                Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-26 18:05 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-27 08:35 +1300
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 17:14 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 17:29 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 22:50 -0700
    Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 15:02 +1300
      Re: Missing Person. Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-10-23 05:23 +0000
        Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 18:44 +1300
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      Re: Missing Person. ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-10-23 10:35 +0000
    Re: Missing Person. "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-10-26 17:12 +0000
      Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-26 11:51 -0700

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