"Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<buv7p4$mf9og$1@ID-207901.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> "JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote
> >  "Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >"JJD" <jefdrab@newsguy.com> wrote
> > >
> > >> >Out of idle curiosity, Jay, where be ye from?
> > >> >
> > >> As you ask, I'm a ***** ****** from *** *******, but that takes all
> > >> the fun out of it.  I rather like the theatre of virtual
>  characters.
> > >>
> > >We'll just pretend you didn't say that. Carry on old boy:)
> >
> > Nah, it's just not the same, is it?
> 
> Use your imagination! Try a little harder! Best of British and all that!
> Where's your sense of the ridiculous? Anyway most of the scs readers
> have a very short attention span so they'll have forgotten what you said
> by this time:)

"Speak of thyself, Helen!"  He says he is a New Zealnd cattle farmer. 
His addee  says newsguy. Somebody says JJD can read in Aramaic. If
that was a subject he covered in uni, I expect so.