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- Newsgroups: alt.bacchus
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!markm
- From: markm@shell.portal.com (Mark M Mavroudis)
- Subject: Re: If you don't mind me asking this.....
- Message-ID: <C18y11.HJt@unix.portal.com>
- Keywords: Bacchus, Dionysus
- Sender: news@unix.portal.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe
- Organization: Team Mavroudis
- References: <albyrne.727560049@unix1.tcd.ie> <C16zDp.7Au@unix.portal.com> <albyrne.727616175@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:24:37 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- In article <albyrne.727616175@unix1.tcd.ie> albyrne@unix1.tcd.ie (The Phantom) writes:
- >In <C16zDp.7Au@unix.portal.com> markm@shell.portal.com (Mark M Mavroudis) writes:
- >
- >>In article <albyrne.727560049@unix1.tcd.ie> albyrne@unix1.tcd.ie (The Phantom) writes:
- [...]
- >
- >Hmm,...thanks for the information. I checked my poetry book and the
- >quote was "Bacchus and his pards" it was indeed Keats and he was talking
- >about getting drunk as a means of escape. The poem was "Ode to a
- >Nightingale" and quite a good one it was too.
- >
-
- I like Keats, also. I think I remember that poem.
-
- >>This newsgroup seems to be for the purpose of discussing wine,
- >>but it does not appear to get much traffic. We could try
- >>to get it going, however.
- >
- >I agree with you about the traffic thing( hard to disagree really) but I
- >don't know anything about wine-making and also I don't drink so I'm not
- >particularly interested. However just to keep the group alive I'll send
- >a few articles in perhaps we can get some traffic going again( On any
- >topic!!!).
-
- I've seen a few people talking about wine here. Does anyone have a
- current favorite that they would like to recommend? Do most of you
- prefer whites, reds, California, Bordeaux?
-
- >>>PS. If you're in the mood would you like to explain the mysterious
- >>>symbols that keep appearing on postings eg :-) :-> :< etc....
- >
- >>Those symbols are called emoticons. [...]
- >
- >Again,thanks for the info....how about this one d:-) (a guy with a
- >baseball cap on).
-
- Yeah, that's good.
-
- >
- >>In vino veritas, eh?
- >
- >Huh?? My latin or whatever it is , isn't the best..could you please
- >explain??
-
- In wine, truth.
-
- >Alan Byrne
- >E-mail: albyrne@unix1.tcd.ie
-
- Mark
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- Mark Mavroudis - Santa Clara, CA - markm@shell.portal.com
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