"Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
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> In news:MJjQb.18665$ws.2397446@news02.tsnz.net,
> Adam Whyte-Settlar <grawillers@hotmail.com> radiated into the
> WorldWideWait:
> > "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > news:RnSPb.987$6O4.23678@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> >> "Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:2qmPb.18231$ws.2287766@news02.tsnz.net...
> >>> "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> >>> news:WXgPb.75595$6y6.1528745@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> >>>
> >>>>> Been thrown out to the garden shed yet?
> >>>
> >>>> Actually retirement is agreeing with me.
> >>>> I'm loving every minute of it.
> >>>>
> >>> Oh dear Madra.
> >>> Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
> >>> Sorry to say, that's a *very* bad sign at this stage old fossil.
> >>> I knew this guy felt just as you do after a few weeks and he
> >>> topped himself less than a month later.
> >>> Messy business too from all accounts.
> >>> Never mind.
> >>> Chin up.
> >>> If one can draw any comfort from a tragic and all-too-common
> >>> event like the above it was that his family didn't really care as
> >>> he had become a bit of a burden since his retirement anyway.
> >>> Sometimes it's a blessing.
> >>> Well, er...
> >>> Good luck Madra.
> >>> A W-S
> >>> PS. I just wanted to add that I've enjoyed your posts immensely
> >>> over the last few years - but sadly I havn't.
> >>
> >> First let me say that this was a most touching post.
> >> My heartfelt thanks to you, good sir.
> >> Secondly, let me assure you that upon your demise (which will
> >> assuredly occur before mine),
> >> I will dig up a coffee can or two and buy a round trip flight to
> >> NZ for the sole purpose of attending your last rites.
> >> Then, after all have departed the grave site, I will express my
> >> complete admiration for you by urinating upon yer headstone.
> >> This will be a lasting memorial to you as it will cause the grass
> >> to grow rich and green around your final resting place.
> >>
> > How moving - and childlike in it's simple form.
> > But I must protest for even in the extremely unlikely event that
> > you were to survive me I fear that, in your condition, you wouldn't
> > survive the journey. I'm sure you will accede that we wouldn't want
> > to burden the overworked NZ airport authorities with the
> > responsiblity for the hygienic disposal of your festering carcase.
> > Besides - I'm a modest man and I really don't want any fuss.
> > A guncarriage cort