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Bronco · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: Hornblower blowing his horn

First of all, did my comment (dated 17th march)offend Bob? my sincere apoligies to him if it did. I can't believe my comment was taken seriously. It was supposed to ( and i hope it still does) read lightheartedly?. No, i wasn't a Chatham 'dogend.' However, i did serve my 22yr. penance in the Buglers branch, and along with it received stick, flung it, played the OD and so on. However, i did leave with my sense of humour intact.
My apologies to you Hornblower if you feel a few dit's about you would not be worthy of a story on this site. I know there's a few about me and i would not feel offended if they are posted on this site (providing they are not OTT.) (In fact, i have posted some already).

lesbryan · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject:

22years as a bugler and non of it as a bulger ?.that must be good in itself|

:

.Does aussie red go down ok with bacon butties?

.Never tried that myself.but may have a go

sometime

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Hornblower · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: Re: Hornblower blowing his horn

Hornblower · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

Hey Glen - I WAS KIDDING!!!!!!

(On the other thread I mean...)

Now relax and enjoy the banter me ol' mucker

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bootybandy · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject:

That's the trouble with text. There's no feeling in it, or emphasis. I know you can Bold, underline or italic certain words to present a different meaning, but rarely do you get the exact feeling in text. I think we've all been on the wrong side of words in this forum at one time or another. PUTTING TEXT IN UPPER CASE GIVES THE IMPRESSION YOU'RE SHOUTING AT PEOPLE. for instance. Ah well the English language and all it eccentricities. Give me Swahili anyday......
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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject:

MrJpig · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

SWAHILI Botty ...Are you sure.....Big fans of JUMPIG out there too you know....??LOL

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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

didnt know they had tartan out there......who are they ..the MacMasi?

bootybandy · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject:

bootybandy · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject:

Much prefer this version of the Massai though.

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sticky blue · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

That's much better
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Aaron Aardvark · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

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A good point about written English. Punctuation can help but use text spk and it is impossible to express any emotion or emphasis.
For forum use there is what?

Are you sure you don't know?

Now think

I think you have it don't you

The emoticon

serves a very real purpose

For example:

Same words, different meaning and emphasis.
I mod on a very large forums and it is so annoying when someone comes in and starts asking the questions and ad "I can't bothered to use the search" apart from locking their topic and sending them a PM bo!!ocking I'll often do a search to see if the topic does exist. They do exist and are very often misspelt or in text speak and because of that, you can't find them. It really makes me

and then go on the rampage
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sticky blue · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:

Now, now Deli, calm down as you'll only put your BP up

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Bronco · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

Hey Guys, i think i'll move back to the Dit's page where it's safe!!!