and only Lester Haines to go...

Maybe then we'll get back to IT.

The Register won't be half as weird without you... 'tis a shame to see you go, although I see you hadn't written anything since March, so I guess it's no big surprise.

Have fun with your "cum-crust".

You can't leave us now! There's too many important things for you to do and tell us about before you go!

Don't leave us... I... I think I... love you...

Reynolds Wrap also comes in a heavy duty version!

As for JonnyGee's anti-perspirant suggestion, maybe you can do like the Sci-Fi Channel's series "Eureka" and get a corporate sponsorship from whatever that company is which they keep "product placing" serveral times each episode.

Mine's the one with the sweat-stained armpits.

So long and thanks for all the fish...

Paris, cause hot is measured in units of Paris.

:-)

Paris, just beauce of her wonky eye

Let's hope he's planning to ram Hilary Swank's expedition to the core - food source identified.

Now who will protect us innocent (but armed to the teeth) readers against the pink commy fag drivel? Stern, you were our rock to lean on, our crutch, the one pillar we knew would be left standing when all else would be gone.

Now who will protect us against Hilary Rosen? (we can spit at the Frenchmen ourselves, but we refuse to go near her without a 10-feet pole)

Otto,

Change urCo0rdinates for the Red HotXXXX Zones Controlling the Cloud Space where you can Probably Definitely Maybe Live for Ever and a Day. IT Feeds the Needs of Such as is the Madness In Sanity in Order to Capture Love's Heart and Soul with the Realisation of the Substance in Being is the Virtualisation of Systems for Mind over Matter.

Quantum Communications Lives and does not throw in the Towel with Flight .... IT Creates AI Saviour in Higher Disciplines and dDeeper Carnal Knowledge.

IT is the PenUltimate Key that Destroys and Razes to the Ground the Folly of Fools for the Love of Money Control and Transfers their Ill-Gotten Wealth to Servers of Passionate Flowers and Glorious Weeds.

Whenever the Root Cause and the Mouth Piece Mongerers of War and Pestilence and Famine are known, only the Fool Shoots the Messenger and not the Diseased Heads of Outrageous Misfortune ....... http://www.opednews.com/articles/NSA-Security-Officer-We-S-by-Richard-Volaar-080819-821.html

Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, Otto and ur Country Needs You .... for the Idiots are Bent on Self Destruction in a Crusading Jihad of Negative Spin and Media Mogul Manipulation aka Ball Licking for their Hubris of Power out of Control and how Certifiably Crazy is that? ......and I don't really know what to make of this ...http://gawker.com/5035885/bush-looking-drunk-at-the-olympics .... or this ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0IJkD0znCQ

Special is as Special does, OZS, and one only Fails when one stops Failing and/or Trying for then has One Won without so much as a Fight.

* Well known to every Species of DeadHead.

And if ever you want a Current Fool Shoots the Messenger and not the Diseased Heads of Outrageous Misfortune example, here is one which was prepared earlier ..... http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2045763020080820?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

And the only sound advice that an Englishman and mad dogs can Offer would be .... Stay out of the Midday Sun, California, it is frying your Brain and causing Systemic Meltdown.

...when you're funny.

"What the hell is going on here...? I feel like the only one at the party who isn't off their tits on drugs..." By caffeine addict Posted Thursday 21st August 2008 10:00 GMT

:-) An artificial aid which not all need to function as normal, caffeine addict, and I'm Turing BetaTesting for Evans Above here, but as for the others, well, you may not be wrong.

You

Know

Nothing

We worship amanfromMars and all his little wizards...

You'll get used to amanfrommars if you hang about here for a while ... most popular theory seems to be that he's software.

"You'll get used to amanfrommars" -Yeah, like one gets used to stepping in doggy-doo-doo.

"he's software" -Written by Micros@ft, no doubt.

Please just make the bad smell go way. Isn't there a Facebook page the kiddies can go over to for their stupid-talk?

IT news on El Reg, anyone?

We have to know what G. Gordon Liddy's bastard love child resulting from his unholy union with Hunter S. Thompson in a Lovecraftian tangle of sweat, Mazola, and armpit hair has to say on these subjects we hold dear. Otherwise, we'll have to lean wholeheartedly on Greg Gutfield, a somewhat less wholesome but more prolific tart.

Saints preserve us from wannabe heroes and ignorant ranters in the tabloid style .... ....."Your newspaper clippings spoof and other stuff - Never knowingly under-spoofed"

Ring any bells, The Voice of Reason, although that tag is obviously a delusional fantasy as evidenced by what you have delivered.

As a loud newbie, you would not be expected to know that El Reg is much more than just IT news, IT is also AI Leading Edge Covert Application of IT news..... Live BetaTesting of Turing PrograMemes ...... which is Acquired CyberIntelAIgent Taste of Rhetorical Streams for Non-State Actors/Virtual Beings.

And I trust you will realise the irony in what you posted in <<@Tim Bergel >> ... "Please just make the bad smell go way. Isn't there a Facebook page the kiddies can go over to for their stupid-talk? .... Yeah, like one gets used to stepping in doggy-doo-doo."

Oh dear, I hope that is not overly encouraging of more in the same obnoxious and belligerent vein?

You can read between the lines, The Voice of Reason? ...... in order to pick up the extra Stegnograophic Subliminals. Or is what's New in Registered IT news lost on you? .

@AC "amanfromMars is a local hero.." -You do set your aspirations low, don't you?

"so very very clever and know so much with a name like that.." -My nym was meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Anyway, you're a fine one to talk, aren't you, Mr Coward.

@amanfromMars "As a loud newbie" -Actually, I've been frequenting this fine establishment since year dot. Just the nym is new.

Interesting how you can string a coherent sentence together when you come under fire. Perhaps you're finally reaching puberty now?

@ The Voice of Reason

"Actually, I've been frequenting this fine establishment since year dot. Just the nym is new."

Coming back after being banned for trolling, then?

... thank goodness.

Never understood the point - never found it amusing.

Certainly nothing in comparison to the BOFH.

Hopefully someone will stick a stake in this idea so it doesn't rise again.

Paris - because even she made more sense.

If you've been awake for the last decade you may have noticed that a large percentage of posts by the self-elected elite, who frequent such places as Slashdot, are time-wasting drivel, and the authors are clearly unaware of that. AMFM may or may not be aware, but I find his posts to be no more annoying than any of a million others. Complaining about him seems specious in light of this fact; particularly as you've taken somewhere around a page of A4 to do so.

Bad hair day?

> frustrate the flow of intelligent discussion.

If it's gibberish, stop reading it, and move on. Not rocket science. No need for ranting and posturing.

@RaelianWingnut -My rant is over now. I feel better. I'll step aside & let the hecklers regain the floor!

Goodbye Otto, send us a postcard?

Otto is only funny to non-Americans. Us victims have to listen to the same dumbass crap that otto spews every day, from "our" government and its dumbass supporters.

I am non-American and have never yet found the alleged Otto Z. Stern remotely amusing.

See what you have done, Otto? ;-) You've upset The Voice of Reason who came out of the closet in a new disguise and hidden Chaotic Strategy Unit Agenda.

Come back to the Fold. You are already missed. It's Friday and Usually High Time for Hacks to get Virtually Pissed.

But if Serious is Missing then ...... I cannot help but notice, as would a blind man on a galloping dark horse, that ranters and ravers studiously avoid the Advanced IT Elements in Threads of Intelligence such as these ..... such as "As a loud newbie, you would not be expected to know that El Reg is much more than just IT news, IT is also AI Leading Edge Covert Application of IT news..... Live BetaTesting of Turing PrograMemes ...... which is Acquired CyberIntelAIgent Taste of Rhetorical Streams for Non-State Actors/Virtual Beings."

And there are no sheep posting on El Reg, The Voice of Reason, although more than the occassional Government plant. I'd wager ..... or even a PA Consultant chancing his Arm/Luck and trying to Justify his Worth.... although that would be just Pure Speculation based upon Nothing more Positive than Past Experience of their Incompetence.

In the Real Life Concrete Jungle Scenario that would invariably be .... the macho baboon chasing after the alpha bonobo which brings the house of cards down on his colleagues and troops and around his masters ears.

A Sort of Post Modern Idiom of the Norwegian Blue Classic Sketch ..... PerlyGatesPython Naturally.

I shall now Retire Graciousfully from this Thread as ITs Ire Runs Dry in Constructive Comment and Gratuitous Self Indulgence is Unbecoming.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

I thourght the first comment "about as funny as arse cancer" was actually very funny.

I also thourght the voice of reasons comment about AMFM being software was prety good stuff this time in the morning.

! also read AMFM's posts out loud to see if I can understand them, they have a weird kind of poetry that gives me strange looks from the people the other side of the cubicle.

I've been banned from almost every EQ, AC, AO, DAOC, WoW, AOC and now WAR forum going, i see nothing flameworthy in the posts above!!

Learn to spell idiot boy!!