Big Bertha Thing pathos
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Detail from painting of captive musketeers.

Caption:-
Porthos took hold of a bar (foot rail) with both hands

From the book
Twenty Years After
by Alexandre Dumas
Published by George G.Harrup & Co.Ltd., 1923
Reprinted 1929
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1998
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Big Bertha Thing poem

Some Days, Then Some

by Tony Lance

I've had better days, he thought and said.
When I could get my sorry butt out of bed.
When I wasn't mistook for as good as dead.
When they didn't fill my boots with all that lead.

There are days sometimes, of sunshine on my head.
Windswept shores viewed from along a beachy-head.
Carefree larks, in a clearly blue sky, over-head.
Then of course, I became a headmaster, the old man said.

Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk

20 February 1998 13:38:16
Message
From:    Tony Lance
Subject:    Big Bertha Thing handbook
To:    FC Mods Discussion
Cc:    OUSA Classical Particle
Big Bertha Thing handbook

1. Handbook thread one posting long.
2. Correctly attributed.
3. Professional.
4. Steet savvy.
5. Well read.
6. Appropriate.
7. Source softly spoken.
8. Solitary.
9. More Sesame Street than Darth Vader.
10. Optional, optimal and optical.

Big Bertha Thing burster
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Gamma Ray Bursters

v1.0
01 feb 2000
Greg Goebel
public domain

Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY

Big Bertha Thing publication

The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-

20 No. 50K primary postings   (out of 26)
2 No. 600K    ditto          (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings     (out of 200)
4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K      ditto          (out of 26)
20 No. 2K      ditto          (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings  (out of 2000)

There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.

Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.

The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk

From: Tony Lance <judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.chem
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing tactics
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:17:36 +0000

24 February 1998 18:22:42
OUSA Astronomy Item
From:   Frank Hollis
Subject:        Re(2): Big Bertha Thing positron
To:     OUSA Astronomy

Caroline Walcot,oufcnt2.open.ac.uk writes:

I don't see what pics of a positron particle (??) have to do with a conference on
Astronomy, which is basically stargazing and astrophysics and mainly optics.

Surely all this Big Bertha stuff should be diverted to a physics conference such as S271?

cheers

Caroline

Or even better, the conference that was specifically set up for exactly this material,
moderated by Spammer in Chief - Tony Lance.

               Frank

Big Bertha Thing features
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Features, hyperbole and blurb, on the Pastures package and the quest.

From Pastures Software Package Documentation.
(Particle Structure Results Program in Fortran 77.)
Sub-atomic Mesons, Baryons and Leptons Classification System.
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1997
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Big Bertha Thing language

The purest form of the english language is contained
in the dead sea scrolls. There is not a lot of it, even there.

Pure english language is a bit like house dust, all dead skin.

The living bits of the english language are anything but pure,
borrowing from a dozen drunken, pilaging, barbarian invaders,
with not one good intention between them.

(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1997.
To comply with my copyright,
please distribute complete and free of charge.

Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk

Newsgroups: sci.chem
From: Tony Lance <joehorace@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:24:28 +0000
Local: Tues, Jan 23 2007 5:24 pm
Subject: Big Bertha Thing tactics

Big Bertha Thing tactics

To whom it may concern. (Newsgroup: sci.chem)
To defend against a denial of service attack on a newsgroup,
use the same tactics that Big Bertha Thing uses
on the most wanted list guys.
1. All threads are one posting long.
2. All replies are posted to one thread.
3. No postings of most wanted are read.
4. No replies to most wanted.
5. No direct criticism of most wanted.
6. All criticism should be pictorial, literate, allegorical
      anecdotal and out of copyright.
7. It is a defense in English law that something which is not
      libelous in one context, cannot be read in another
      context as libelous.
8. This is also true of English universities, where the guy has tenure.
9. Corporate branding can reinforce trust, as well as irritation.
10. A group of guys posting across several newsgroups,
      can have strategic reasons for their choice of newsgroups.
11. Three battles have been won so far. (39 family jewels)
12. The fourth battle is now on. (Asian Rim)
13. So I posted a picture of historical scientific interest,
      which looked like a shell hole. (Virtual artillary shell)
14. Use double pass newsreader software to download headers,
      before the rest of the postings. (NNTP)

http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/want04.html