Posted by Robert Buchanan on 10/07/05 07:53

PJR <pjr@NOSPAMkookbusters.org> wrote in
news:slrndkbuph.nap.pjr@nntp.petitmorte.net:

> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:17:35 GMT, Robert Buchanan
> <rbuchanan@neubauten.org> wrote in alt.usenet.kooks:
>
>> "Dearest Thomas" <deltatom@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
>> news:1128629259.189898.230750@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> Dennis M. Hammes wrote:
>>>> Hunh. I /think/ all the cascades to appear on the poultry froups
>>>> were x-posted in. Never heard of the "chicken" one...
>>>
>>> I had lots that were quite clever
>>> with Paul.
>>>
>>> Mine were more clever, but go figure.
>>
>> I somehow find that unlikely.
>
> A couple of years ago, there was a cascade in RAP consisting of
> sentences like "'I've ben to the North Pole?' said Tom, huskily" and
> "'Is this a dagger I see before me?' asked Tom, pointedly." After it
> had been going on for a while, Tommy Tosser replied to every post in
> it, adding some incomprehensible crap containing the word "Tom". He
> understands wordplay about as well as he understands cascading.

It's "abstract," Peter. We wouldn't understand.

> He's a moron.

You think?!

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