Re: Headset cheap fix - works

On 3 Dec 2003 17:37:02 +1050, carlfogel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At the same time, I noticed another bizarre problem. I cannot bear to
>break words with hyphens at the ends of lines, no matter how my various
>word processors implore me to do so; yet hyphenation for format- ting
>doesn't bother me in anyone else's writing.

I have that issue, too, but I also don't like it in others' writing.
There is no longer any excuse for it; we have word processors with
line wrapping and even justifying.

>I certainly would never tease anyone about their grammar, punctuation,
>or spelling
>
>amidst all the traffic in this
>                 newsfroup.
>Much less draw attention to it with a smiley. ;)

Heheh...I picked up that fun misspelling long ago, and never put it
down.  Curiously, it's extremely rare that anybody says anything
about it.  So far, this makes a total of _two_ times since I've
shown up in wreck.bicycles.*.

>Incidentally, you might have a look at how your message appears when
>viewed through cycling forums. It could give you some perspective on all
>this formatting fuss.

I will not use a web forum, sam I am
I will not use it in a boat
I will not use it on a goat
I will not use it in a house
I will not use it with a mouse
I will not use a web forum, sam I am
I will not drink it on the rocks
I will not use it near a fox
I will not even ask how
I will not compare it to a cow
I will not use a web forum, sam I am
I will not eat it whole
I will not kill a mole
I will not try to use that
Not even if asked by my cat
I will not use a web forum, sam I am
...etc.

>Carl Fogel
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Rick Onanian