Subject: decoder

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:02:39 -0400 (EDT)

i am looking for BenHex 4.0 if u can help please let me know

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Sep 1997 18:57:09 +0200

>> "P" == Pjester21  <[email-masked]> writes:

P> i am looking for BenHex 4.0 if u can help please let me know

Unlike binhex decoders, BenHex 4.0's are *really* hard to get. First,
get yourself a dead pig. Then take your head (provided you have one)
and firmly attach it to the corpse's pigs. Count to 10 and see if the
BenHex 4.0 has appeared in the meantime.

Cheers,
Robin

--
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
"They don't let you teach there, do they?"
Annelise Anderson in comp.mail.pine

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From: Matt Simmons <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Sep 1997 15:03:14 -0500

> BenHex 4.0 has appeared in the meantime.
I don't get it.  I got the dead pig.  I then tried to attach my head
to the pig's pigs as you instructed above.  Unfortunately, the corpse
is a pig.  Pigs don't have pigs - they are pigs.  I tried holding my
head above the pig and counting to 10, but that didn't work either.

I'm so confused.

Matt

-- 
     Matt Simmons  -  [email-masked]  -  http://www.netcom.com/~simmonmt
	May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
				-- George Carlin

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:18:33 -0600 (MDT)

> head above the pig and counting to 10, but that didn't work either.

Understandably so, since Robin's instructions were less than
clear.  You don't want a real pig, see.  You want a virtual pig,
such that you can then visualize whatever attachments you want,
including, but not limited to, additional pigs (aka piglets in
some local vernaculars). Did you try counting to ten in a
language other than English?  I find that Slavic languages -
doesn't matter which one - work best.  

Or, you could just be grateful you're not the guy who wrote me
and asked why my Pine Tutorial didn't cover how to have Pine send
a message to his cellphone when he gets new mail. 

Lea

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Sep 1997 23:52:07 +0200

>> "MS" == Matt Simmons schrieb am 19 Sep 1997 15:03:14 -0500:

MS> I don't get it.  I got the dead pig.  I then tried to attach my
MS> head to the pig's pigs as you instructed above.  Unfortunately,
MS> the corpse is a pig.  Pigs don't have pigs - they are pigs.

My fault - I screwed up... It's the pig's _bowels_ of course. I'm
terribly sorry for the distress I've caused you. You know, sometimes
it sucks to be me. Hehehe...

MS> I tried holding my head above the pig and counting to 10, but that
MS> didn't work either.

Umm, yeah, sorry...

MS> I'm so confused.

ME TOO!!! (c) aol --- I cannot get random-sig to work. Write an FM
and leave the pigs for the aol-DuDEz.

Later,
Robin

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 20 Sep 1997 00:00:17 +0200

>> Regarding Re: decoder; Lea <[email-masked]> adds: 

L> On 19 Sep 1997, Matt Simmons wrote:
>> I don't get it.  [...] I'm so confused.

L> Understandably so, since Robin's instructions were less than clear.

Yeah, keep rubbing it in...

L> You don't want a real pig, see.

Of course he does. He's an elisp programmer. Dead chicken don't have
enough magick.

L> You want a virtual pig, such that you can then visualize whatever
L> attachments you want, including, but not limited to, additional pigs
L> (aka piglets in some local vernaculars).

Did it ever occur to you that a vernacular is "local" by
definition. Watch out for Hannes Kniffka, Indigenous Grammar in
Culture-Contrastive Perspective...

L> Or, you could just be grateful you're not the guy who wrote me and
L> asked why my Pine Tutorial didn't cover how to have Pine send a
L> message to his cellphone when he gets new mail.

Procmail. No prob that one... Hehehe...

What a pleasant evening.

Robin

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From: Matt Simmons <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Sep 1997 19:27:24 -0500

> a message to his cellphone when he gets new mail. 
Oh course it can't.  That's version 4!  *plonk*

Matt

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     Matt Simmons  -  [email-masked]  -  http://www.netcom.com/~simmonmt
   No need crying over spilt milk.  Unless, of course, you're a truck driver
	   and you just lost nearly 3800 gallons on the interstate --
		      then it's okay to cry. -- Dan Lantz

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 20 Sep 1997 02:54:43 +0200

>> Matt Simmons writes:
MS> Lea <[email-masked]> writes:
>> Or, you could just be grateful you're not the guy who wrote me and
>> asked why my Pine Tutorial didn't cover how to have Pine send a
>> message to his cellphone when he gets new mail.
MS> Oh course it can't.  That's version 4!  *plonk*

Watch who you're plonking, DuDE. Lea's special, and you'll miss a lot
of funny comments. Well maybe not so many, but still funny.

At least you stoopid sigfile thingie is kinda working now... 
C-u 100 M-x all-hail-xemacs... Geez, what a night... *yawn*

Laterz,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
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