Dear Don,
Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

I was convinced that you had quit writing me completely. You don't have to write here. We have email if you wish to write away from the public eye. Thank you.

to be honest, I never thought I'd hear from you again after this amount of time

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:55:15 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > Dear Don,
> > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> I was convinced that you had quit writing me completely. You don't have to write here. We have email if you wish to write away from the public eye. Thank you.
>
> to be honest, I never thought I'd hear from you again after this amount of time

Nick, you know what some people will do ? They'll have a good relationship going and then one of them will quit and the other one keeps writing , they want a relationship so bad , so they keep writing and writing , then after about a year the other person writes one time , the other person is all enthused.
They keep writing maybe five years then the other person writes maybe one time to sucker the other person into writing some more. Isn't that terrible? Humans are such louses. What they did originally to break up the relationship was lie.

On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 6:56:11 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:55:15 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > > Dear Don,
> > > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> > I was convinced that you had quit writing me completely. You don't have to write here. We have email if you wish to write away from the public eye.. Thank you.
> >
> > to be honest, I never thought I'd hear from you again after this amount of time
> Nick, you know what some people will do ? They'll have a good relationship going and then one of them will quit and the other one keeps writing , they want a relationship so bad , so they keep writing and writing , then after about a year the other person writes one time , the other person is all enthused.
> They keep writing maybe five years then the other person writes maybe one time to sucker the other person into writing some more. Isn't that terrible? Humans are such louses. What they did originally to break up the relationship was lie.

people are so incredibly evil they all need to be scorched by global warming

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

That was a very nice message. I suppose if you're going to write again, I'll see a message and if you're not going to write again, I won't .
as far as the posters here in comp.ai.philosophy, I don't share your high opinion of them.

On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 6:30:23 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > Dear Don,
> > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> That was a very nice message. I suppose if you're going to write again, I'll see a message and if you're not going to write again, I won't .
> as far as the posters here in comp.ai.philosophy, I don't share your high opinion of them.

Why? For going round and round and round and round forever and ever discussing inconsequential nothingness ad nauseum.

On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 7:04:38 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 6:30:23 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > > Dear Don,
> > > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> > That was a very nice message. I suppose if you're going to write again, I'll see a message and if you're not going to write again, I won't .
> > as far as the posters here in comp.ai.philosophy, I don't share your high opinion of them.
> Why? For going round and round and round and round forever and ever discussing inconsequential nothingness ad nauseum.

Did you know that the Egyptian government is going to accommodate foreign visitors who complained about the long trip from the airport out to the great pyramid of Giza by moving it right outside the airport Stone by stone?

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

sorry, most likely chased you off again. Maybe someday I'll develop some patience , Learn to wait for somebody's reply. above, you did make a very honorable offer of an olive branch, and I in my cynicism didn't do too well with it.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

remember when we used to have long discussions and then they would go bad and we would delete all the posts and other readers here would ask questions why do you do that? I've also pretty sure that you are the only one that has a complete set of my hand written messages. My sister has quite a few also, are you keeping the identity of your children secret? Thank you for warning me about the Borg. That was the very first sentence you ever told me why am I being kind of insulting here? Because I'm convinced you'll never have another conversation with me , just individual posts to sucker me along, so I make responses like this such fond memories eat more pecans.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

i'm sorry I can't write anymore. I've lost both hands in a pecan harvesting accident.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

I blew it again, didn't I????

On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 2:42:12 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > Dear Don,
> > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> I blew it again, didn't I???

I just wish that when I wrote somebody I could be guaranteed that they would write back.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

if you would like to establish a back-and-forth correspondence, that would be fine , one person writing alone isn't very interesting

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

no, not worth it , too many games

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

Will wait on tenterhooks for the Portrait .
really hoping you get in the mood soon.
Yes, snail mail will be great.
As far as the quality of people who post to comp.ai.philosophy, you're right , they're of the highest caliber.

On Monday, August 21, 2023 at 6:53:24 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > Dear Don,
> > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> Will wait on tenterhooks for the Portrait .
> really hoping you get in the mood soon.
> Yes, snail mail will be great.
> As far as the quality of people who post to comp.ai.philosophy, you're right , they're of the highest caliber.

Nic, I've got a project for you , see if you can get people to not be passive aggressive that is to break promises

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:24:05 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

Yes, by all means, you just work on the portrait when you're in the mood. I have a lot of patience. I can wait and you're right, I'd love to get back to s-mail. I love to write out things by hand and the advantage is that a hand written letter is almost impossible to fake. Sounds very good.

On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> Dear Don,
> Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.

I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account somebody else had set up.

I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much to say.....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you each time you write.

Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental affect on nature and our world around

On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 1:34:34 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > Dear Don,
> > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account somebody else had set up.
>
> I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much to say.....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you each time you write.
>
> Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental affect on nature and our world around

Adonis is my third cousin twice removed.

If I'm writing too fast, I can adhere now on to Hofstadter's tit-for-tat rule, which slows things down and it also ensures if one person quits the other person quits also.

On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 4:43:11 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 1:34:34 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > > Dear Don,
> > > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> > I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account somebody else had set up.
> >
> > I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much to say....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you each time you write.
> >
> > Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental affect on nature and our world around
> Adonis is my third cousin twice removed.
>
> If I'm writing too fast, I can adhere now on to Hofstadter's tit-for-tat rule, which slows things down and it also ensures if one person quits the other person quits also.

I promise I'll quit posting out of turn.

On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 1:43:59 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 4:43:11 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 1:34:34 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > > > Dear Don,
> > > > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > > > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> > > I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account somebody else had set up.
> > >
> > > I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much to say....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you each time you write.
> > >
> > > Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental affect on nature and our world around
> > Adonis is my third cousin twice removed.
> >
> > If I'm writing too fast, I can adhere now on to Hofstadter's tit-for-tat rule, which slows things down and it also ensures if one person quits the other person quits also.
> I promise I'll quit posting out of turn.

My problem is that I get really worried that if I send someone a note that they won't return the favor.

On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 1:34:34 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield Elson makethings wrote:
> > Dear Don,
> > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe snail-mail suits best , huh !
> > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers, lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account somebody else had set up.
>
> I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much to say.....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you each time you write.
>
> Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental affect on nature and our world around

do you know mathematics has its paradoxes, but there are paradoxes in the ordinary world too, like if
Person A quits writing to Person B, and Person B complains back to Person A about it , Person A will write even less or probably even nothing because he/she says to themselves " I've got person B here like a little puppet on a string and I don't like Person B anyway , so let's just make him dance his dance forever because he's a fool."

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:14:01 -0700 (PDT), Don Stockbauer
<donstockbauer@hotmail.com> wrote in
<2594475e-f3a7-4d62-91fb-7341332f42c3n@googlegroups.com>:

> On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 1:43:59 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 4:43:11 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer
>> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 1:34:34 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield
>> > Elson makethings wrote:
>> > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield
>> > > Elson makethings wrote:
>> > > > Dear Don,
>> > > > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok
>> > > > tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have
>> > > > considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait
>> > > > until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe
>> > > > snail-mail suits best , huh !
>> > > > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to
>> > > > write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on
>> > > > Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers,
>> > > > lots who are or were students & now moved on.
>> > > I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I
>> > > was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I
>> > > have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account
>> > > somebody else had set up.
>> > >
>> > > I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much
>> > > to say....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe
>> > > you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you
>> > > each time you write.
>> > >
>> > > Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental
>> > > affect on nature and our world around
>> > Adonis is my third cousin twice removed.
>> >
>> > If I'm writing too fast, I can adhere now on to Hofstadter's
>> > tit-for-tat rule, which slows things down and it also ensures if one
>> > person quits the other person quits also.
>> I promise I'll quit posting out of turn.
>
> My problem is that I get really worried that if I send someone a note
> that they won't return the favor.

This sounds like a job for soc.penpals , Don:

https://groups.google.com/g/soc.penpals

--
-v

On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 1:40:16 PM UTC-5, vallor wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:14:01 -0700 (PDT), Don Stockbauer
> <donsto...@hotmail.com> wrote in
> <2594475e-f3a7-4d62...@googlegroups.com>:
>
> > On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 1:43:59 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 4:43:11 PM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 1:34:34 PM UTC-5, Nicki Hatfield
> >> > Elson makethings wrote:
> >> > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:24:05 PM UTC+1, Nicki Hatfield
> >> > > Elson makethings wrote:
> >> > > > Dear Don,
> >> > > > Comp ai philosophy is possibly the wrong to chat. I'm doing ok
> >> > > > tho I haven't begun your portrait yet, something I would NOT have
> >> > > > considered payment for. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait
> >> > > > until I'm in the mood, I have to move again soonish ....so maybe
> >> > > > snail-mail suits best , huh !
> >> > > > DO NOT rag the posters too much they have intelligent things to
> >> > > > write for, like giving very impressive CV's, I've posted on
> >> > > > Google Groups for nearly 20 years so I'm used to some writers,
> >> > > > lots who are or were students & now moved on.
> >> > > I agree that emails can be hacked & plausibly be tampered with. I
> >> > > was looking for your email & found you as 'Adonis Stockbauer', I
> >> > > have no idea if you were being kinky or it was an alt account
> >> > > somebody else had set up.
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm very quiet generally, so I'm sorry if I haven't had very much
> >> > > to say....nothing much has happened since I last wrote, or maybe
> >> > > you reply so fast, I'm stumped so have a little less to tell you
> >> > > each time you write.
> >> > >
> >> > > Yes I agree, global warming is having a massively detrimental
> >> > > affect on nature and our world around
> >> > Adonis is my third cousin twice removed.
> >> >
> >> > If I'm writing too fast, I can adhere now on to Hofstadter's
> >> > tit-for-tat rule, which slows things down and it also ensures if one
> >> > person quits the other person quits also.
> >> I promise I'll quit posting out of turn.
> >
> > My problem is that I get really worried that if I send someone a note
> > that they won't return the favor.
>
> This sounds like a job for soc.penpals , Don:
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/soc.penpals
>
> --
> -v
oh my God Brennus has followed me over here , just like a dog sniffing a trail. What do I do now ? I'm doomed ? My ordinary life is dashed against the rocks of despair Just like Helen Trent go away go away British go away.

The national lampoon made fun of the word despair. They showed the first part of the song "bring in the clowns" and they had depicted Judy Collins nude from the waist up and she was saying the line "isn't it rich, are we a pair?"