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> Jon de Souza <jondesouza@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3803518d.0202270607.de78e38@posting.google.com...
> > "Robert the 'erbert" <robbie@thehague.net> wrote in message
> news:<R62f8.55085$Ah1.6922199@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>...
> > > Sorry..did I hear a feint yapping somewhere...?
> >
> > I don't imagine you did. You may have heard a faint yapping. Or
> > perhaps you mean he went to yap but fooled you by going completely
> > over your head.
>
> Yep a...a kind of pointless yapping from little dog.

Blimey, you're really clutching at straws here. So this is the new *PLONK*
then, is it? This is the all-encompassing, one size fit's all, use anytime
go anywhere reply, then?

Okay, let's have a look at it. Let's see what we're up against, as I'm sure
you intend to sit on this one for a while now.  The premise of your joke, it
seems, is that whatever someone says, regardless of if it's funny, stupid,
insightful, clever, ignorant, controversial, whatever, you reply by
pretending that it made no sense to you, and sounded (in your ears) like a
kind of "YAP! YAP!" noise.

Using this tactic, in fact relying on it as you are, you do run certain
risks. In my capacity as official UKSF idiot-helper, or "Youth Team Coach"
as it's also known, I'm feel it is my duty to outline them for you, in the
hope that you might turn back before you make an even bigger twat of
yourself. Why you don't have some one to do this for you at RSS I don't
know, and maybe I shouldn't be helping you, but I'm a kind soul so I'll
press on.

Firstly, you could easily accidentally reply to a brilliant post this way,
without even realising it at the time. Everyone else in the newsgroup could
see that it's a brilliant post, you even might yourself after a while when
you've had a chance to cool down and actually _read_ it, but at the time you
thought it would be a good idea to tell the rest of the group that it made
no sense to you.

You see what you've done there, Robert? You've called yourself an idiot.
Seriously, that's an own goal.

Secondly, there's ever such a good chance that we here at UKSF might decide
that it annoys us, and that we don't want you to do it. When that happens,
we'll be able to manipulate you every bit as easily as we did when we wanted
you to stop saying *PLONK*.
Then you will boast proudly of your free will to do whatever we don't want
you to do, having just demonstrated the complete opposite.

You see what you've done this time, Robert? You've called yourself an idiot
again. That's right my friend, it's another own goal.

The fact is, you lost the whole *PLONK* battle so badly it's a wonder to the
rest of us you were ready to come back for more so quickly. It's like if
Frank Bruno had wanted another go at Tyson the following week. While we all
admire your plucky spirit, we also can't help thinking you're a bit of a sad
little prick. Take it from me, you've died a death here, and your best bet
is to go away for a while and the return with a new alias, a clean sheet and
a much better approach to posting.

Then maybe, with a combination of hard work, good luck, and a horrible
plane-crash which wipes out most of your team-mates, you could one day
aspire to be a reasonably useful squad-player for the RSS reserve team. But
we're getting way ahead of ourselves here. Right now you're an idiot.

You said so yourself. Twice.

Joe