At 27 Jan 2008 13:53:12 -0800 SMS wrote:

> Sometimes I get in the mood to kill-file everyone being a jerk on
> Usenet,

That'd certainly make Usenet a lonelier place!

> and Larry, with his "SellPhone" schtick finally fell victim
> to one of these mass kill-file addition sprees.

And yet _I_ continue to make it through? I guess I'm mellowing with age!
;-)

> It makes my newsgroups reasonably clean for a few weeks, then I have
> to do it again.

I haven't bothered with killfiles in a long time. As the old joke goes,
"even a broken clock is right twice a day." You never know where a useful
piece of information will show up- even our rabid iPhone fanboy Oxford
would occasionally post a useful link, despite his signal to noise ratio
being worse than that of an old KMart 8-track tape player stored in a
magnet manufacturer's warehouse.

> > And miss out on the world's self-proclaimed largest purveyor of rasin
> > toast?
>
> I thought that they were the largest purveyor of grits.

That too.

> Grits are pretty rare in California, but I like them having grown up in
> Florida.

I never "got" grits. The logic of naming a food after a synonym for dirt
always escaped me, plus the idea of putting butter on anything that
similar to cereal creeps me out. But, of course, every region has their odd
"specialties." I'm from Rhode Island originally, where kids drink coffee-
flavored milk (think chocolate milk, but made with a coffee-flavored syrup,)
cover our hot dogs in a meat sauce made by boiling ground beef, onions,
and celery salt in vegetable oil until it becomes the consistency of silt,
and often choose malt vinegar instead of ketchup as a french fry topping!


> Actually, considering the dearth of 24 hour restaurants around my
> area, maybe Waffle House would be a good addition.


The mere thought of the Waffle House brings to mind the comedy bit by
the late Bill Hicks where he tells of the time when a waitress saw
him reading a book at the Waffle House and instead of asking him "whatcha
readin'?", instead asked "whatcha readin' FOR?" to which he replied
"so I don't have to work at a Waffle House?"