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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:48 pm
by ABILITY
Problem with Tony returning after a while is, it takes so long to read through all the 'new' posts that appear on the listings!!
All credit it to him, it must take even longer to write them all, true dedication!
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:19 pm
by Tony McC
Don't mention that effing book! I'm sure that it is responsible for a lot of the heart problems I've been having this summer.
It came back from the editor completely bollixed - it took me almost as long to correct all the mis-editings as it did to write it in the first place! I mean, it's not as though I really need someone to tell me how to write, is it? But when they start changing text so much that the meaning is completely changed, I tend to get a tad upset, and when they simply make things up, such as their insertion that it is a polymerisation reaction that's responsible for the curing of a mortar, well ... let's just say I introduced them to some proper building site language!
I'm still ploughing through the backlog of posts to the Brew Cabin, not helped by the ongoing server problems that ClaraNet swear they're working on, but I should be back up-to-date this weekend, and that just leaves a couple of thousand emails. Some are just going to be ignored, I'm afraid, either because they are nonsense or the answer is there on the website if the sender could be bothered to look.
However, when you get replies such as the one I reproduce below, it makes me wonder why I bother answering emails in the first place! This was some eejit in Australia who took exception to my comment that I was not a "Pommy Bastard" but an "Irish Bastard", and that he should read the advice given on the "Laying Concrete" page of the website (the strategically positioned asterisks are mine, inserted to beat the abusibve lanhgauge filter in this message board system)....
"Ah a shovel f*cker , one of those thick c*nts with a massive head and no
brain in sight , bet your jealous Sadam's lot have stolen your bombing job
back in smelly old England , but England is better than Ireland coz all you
Irish Knackers can afford to eat is spuds , oh and i rather f*ck a Kangaroo
than one of them sex mad little catholic irish girls , Kangaroos clean there
pussy .
Tap ah De Maurnin Te Yah , Yeh Fekin Eegyt
Keep on Diggin holes Paddy thats all your good for"
...his parents must be so proud! They could name the offsping Joey, I suppose! And to top it all off, they're being thrashed by the "Poms" at Cricket! Ha! 
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:24 pm
by danensis
Could you please bring me back one of those "sex mad little catholic irish girls" next time you go to Ireland?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:48 am
by Tony McC
I tried, but Mrs Taz caught me with a couple of them in the car and wouldn't believe I was just bring 'em back for a friend! :;):