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Article #93846

Re: GalCiv Demo?

#93846
From: Bret Ripley
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:05
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In article <73mm8vor8at5vf1ih...@4ax.com>, 
br...@zakalwe.demon.co.uk says...
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:20:57 -0800, Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <1lam8vgv0cm7pt23h...@4ax.com>, 
> >br...@zakalwe.demon.co.uk says...
> >> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:14:44 -0800, Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >In article <foqk8v824etg65i5n...@4ax.com>, 
> >> >br...@zakalwe.demon.co.uk says...
> >> >> On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:13:53 +0100, Memnoch
> >> >> <mem...@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> >On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:44:01 +0100, Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk>
> >> >> >wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net> wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>>In article <69bd8v458mvtbt77q...@4ax.com>, 
> >> >> >>>l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk says...
> >> >> >>>> comstar <com...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> >> >>>> 
> >> >> >>>> >
> >> >> >>>> >
> >> >> >>>> >Bret Ripley wrote:
> >> >> >>>> >
> >> >> >>>> >> In article <b5vjto$6ru$1...@slb9.atl.mindspring.net>, un...@mindspring.com
> >> >> >>>> >> says...
> >> >> >>>> >> > how soon?
> >> >> >>>> >>
> >> >> >>>> >> <MarathonManMode>
> >> >> >>>> >>
> >> >> >>>> >> Soon.  Very soon.  So soon you wouldn't believe it.
> >> >> >>>> >>
> >> >> >>>> >> *BZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE*
> >> >> >>>> >>
> >> >> >>>> >> No, not soon.  Not soon at all.
> >> >> >>>> >
> >> >> >>>> >    I saw that same line used at the latest colation briefing in Quatar
> >> >> >>>> >about the war in Iraq.
> >> >> >>>> >
> >> >> >>>> >I take it to mean you havn't got a clue either. Pity.
> >> >> >>>> 
> >> >> >>>> Hey, be fair.  They didn't "wargame" the "enemy" fighting back.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>Maybe they blew their whole budget on marketing?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>I just want to know how they hope to win the "hearts and minds" of the
> >> >> >>"enemy" when they can't even win the "hearts and minds" of their own
> >> >> >>"electorate".
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Not only that but slaughtering the very people you are trying to win over
> >> >> >doesn't help. And slaughtering the people you arre slaughtering those people
> >> >> >with as well. If I was a Brit squadie and was told to get on an American
> >> >> >chopper now I'd tell 'em I'd walk to Basra!
> >> >> 
> >> >> Is the world not perfect then? That's a terrible shock.
> >> >
> >> >Yeah, Mem.  Next time put in a Spoiler Warning.
> >> 
> >> I'm adjusting Bret, i'm adjusting.
> >> 
> >> Anyway, Sven's playing Rooney instead of Heskey, so very little else
> >> can impact at the moment. I'm in that blissful cocoon of anticipation,
> >> the one that always gets smeared under the grinding boot of reality.
> >
> >Sven?  Rooney?  Heskey?  Is this some sort of Euro-code?
> 
> All is now irrelevant. The cocoon split to reveal the beautifying
> Beckham, the jewel of James, and the resolve of Rooney.
> If this forum was audibly based, my silence would speak volumes.

Completely inscrutable.

> Code? Maybe. If it is then i'm devoid of the cipher, yet full of the
> meaning.

Drivel drivel drivel.

> Let's just hope the stabbings are kept to a minimum.

Stabbings?  You are talking about football, then?

Bret
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From: Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim
Subject: Re: GalCiv Demo?
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:05:58 -0800
Organization: SCN Research of Tigard, Oregon, USA.
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