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Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)

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From: ma...
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:35
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On 2018-03-19, JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:40:53 +0000, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 14/03/2018 13:26, Peter Flass wrote:
>>> Nothing at all for the last couple of days? Is this maybe an Eternal
>>> September problem? I have visions of getting thousands of messages all at
>>> once.
>>
>>I use a different usenet server and it is quite.
>>Maybe it is like that point at a party where everyone just stops talking 
>>for a few seconds at the same time?
>>
>>Andy
>
> There was an interesting short story written about that some years
> ago. A guy tried to investigate it, and shortly after he got started,
> something arrived outside of a party he was attending and the world
> came to an end. I didn't understand it, but apparently some being was
> going to return, not necessarily God, at that time of an hour, and
> thats why people all stop talking for a few seconds at the same time.




I know the feeling. You wake up, and everyone is gone home..and the
Iveagh Buildings is just a memory. There was a story that stephen
King still using Wordstar.
-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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