Hello PETER.

01 Dec 06 22:48, you wrote to BJ”RN FORSSTR”M:

 PC>   Hi Bjorn ...   timmies is the nickname for our beloved institution
 PC> here in Canada..named after a player with the Toronto Maple Leaf
 PC> hockey club.   They are like a donut shop..but more to us now.

 PC> Brasil is okay...I have property there and I love it.   Now retired
 PC> we are getting ready to make a pernament home there. Sailing is a lot
 PC> better there then in Canada where I am now... 3 months sailing if that
 PC> long...the rest is bad sailing...

This smells suspiciously like   "chat".
This is /not/ a "general" echo, newbiemeat. The dwarves don't
give a  what your message base or some sissy-op says about it;
this is Mindless Chatter and Drivel; the Worst echo in Fidonet,
and there are only two topics in here, newbie-bashing, and drivel. I'm not
drivelling ATM, but I am still on-topic for this echo, so I'll let those
two atoms in that empty cavity of yours that you call a head randomly
collide so that you can figure it out for yourself...

Some advice for you so that you don't make the same idiotic blunder ever again:

DON'T complain. There's nothing like a whining newbie to get the dwarves on
your scent. Once they are, there's no hope for you.

DON'T get mad. This will only get every dwarf in the whole blamed echo on your
, painting a large red and blue target on it, after which you will be
tossed into the firing range for target practice with the  cannons and
catapults, then Lou Dripkin will do the EWE dance over your shattered remains.

DON'T apologize. This will only enrage the dwarves even further, and whip them
into a frenzy the like we haven't seen since last month's kale went on sale for
$1.275 a pound. If you have trouble understanding this, it will be explained to
you in painful detail by Guido and Nunzio, the Jewish flatulators.

DO read 1275 messages; within which you should find a posting of Da Rulz,
which will be posted by Da Head Cheese, or a reasonable facsimile.

DO read Da Rulz. Learn them. Study them. LIVE them. They are the only thing
between you and the Jobob Morgan Memorial Privy and Escape Chute.

DO sned $127.50 in small, unmarked bills to the office of Sgt. Stubby
MacPherson, c/o of CADB Calgary, for your snedding papers, phunny hat,
aardvark detector, and any other rediculous and unnecessary things we might
think of. Don't be suprised if none of the aforementioned items ever
arrive... we make no promises here, except that you'll regret your stay.

This is the only "nice" message I will send to you.

... Have a y day.
--- GoldED/W32 3.0.1