Author: Bella Freud
Date: 14:37:16 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 17:18:27, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 14, 1999 at 15:52:11, Bella Freud wrote: > >>On November 14, 1999 at 14:50:23, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>Could you please stop these senseless kind of games >>>and start some more useful games >>>in a setting where Shredder e.g. has a faster machine, >>>or if you don't have a faster machine, why not >>>use a shredder version that is newer ? >>>You test shredder2, in the moment shredder 4 is the state- >>>of the art product. >>> >>>I don't see much sense in letting tiger play against a shredder >>>version from a few years. >>> >>>i mean, it is interesting if you live a few years in the past >>>(do you live a few years in the past in sweden ?) >>>but all other people in the world live in year 1999... almost all. >> >>Not my partner, Mr Rip van Winkle. He lives in 1899 and has many useful things >>to say about how it has all gone since then. Ir was not all progress. >> >> >>Bella > > >???? > > > > Christophe Rip van Winkle is a fairy-tale character who fell asleep for 100 years and then woke up to find the world had changed after his long rest. Not all changes were for the better. There are other morals to the tale too. Thus the comment was an ironical response to the concept of 1999 as 'better' than any years before. Have I made myself quite clear now? Please email me if you have any further misunderstandings. Bella
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