Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim
Article #104988Re: Recently my son, Jack, committed suicide after loosing the account he worked on for about two years on Eve-online.
From: Bret Ripley
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:56
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:56
23 lines
2317 bytes
2317 bytes
On Thu, 4 May 2006 10:17:18 -0500, Middlebrow wrote: > "magnate" <chrisc@dbass.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1146754633.077732.62490@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> P.S. What's the origin of the thing about Brits having bad teeth? I was >> watching Family Guy on DVD and there's a hysterically funny episode >> about that. It's been in the Simpsons too, and other comedy - where >> does it come from?? I mean, why are we lampooned for our teeth instead >> of greasy hair, bandy legs or any other physical impairment? > > Just a guess but might it have to do with the two countries in the > nineteen-fifties, one of which was obsessing about hygiene Not only hygiene: we were also obsessing about communism and the threat of imminent nuclear destruction. One finds that one wishes to put on a good face when one is about to be vaporized. > and the other rebuilding from WWII? On a related note: I recently read about London's 1952-53 "flu epidemic." A nasty business, that. Bret
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<12lfop0b2fuwt$.1ukx7275c68wp$.dlg@40tude.net>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!novia!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-01!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mailReferences:
<1145936738.576311.111730@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <fTe5g.9728$ca3.6581@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net> <4fue52ltgv24d1pfb02qudidbje694md24@4ax.com> <1146585226.050740.7420@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <_C16g.4281$yM.3853@tornado.socal.rr.com> <oaa3a5iyypj6.145vrqqnadg6.dlg@40tude.net> <1146754633.077732.62490@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <YPCdnc6vX8Zkh8fZnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@comcast.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!novia!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-01!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Bret Ripley <ripley@gotsky.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: Recently my son, Jack, committed suicide after loosing the account he worked on for about two years on Eve-online. Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:56:49 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <12lfop0b2fuwt$.1ukx7275c68wp$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1145936738.576311.111730@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <fTe5g.9728$ca3.6581@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net> <4fue52ltgv24d1pfb02qudidbje694md24@4ax.com> <1146585226.050740.7420@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <_C16g.4281$yM.3853@tornado.socal.rr.com> <oaa3a5iyypj6.145vrqqnadg6.dlg@40tude.net> <1146754633.077732.62490@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <YPCdnc6vX8Zkh8fZnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@comcast.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 23 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit