G'day Roy,

 RM> RM> GM> learned more about black stars than I ever knew before.
 RM> GG>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^
 RM>
 RM> GG> UGH!!!!
 RM>
 RM> GG> Repent Mrs. Gasson, or the pedantic bastards are gonna get you
 RM> GG> and force you to read Rod Speed messages for a week.
 RM>
 RM> We're harsh and brutal here. *Two* weeks.

You're a cruel bastard, Roy.


 RM> GG>       Ok, all right already. I repent.  black holes.
 RM>
 RM> GG>  ... You'd think a wise pedantic like Roy would have noticed
 RM>                             ^^^^^^^^
 RM> pedant. Pedantic is the adjective.

Err.  :-(


 RM> GG> so terribly obvious though. Maybe he doesn't really know what
 RM> GG> he's talking about.  ;-)
 RM>
 RM> Several reasons I left it alone (mostly bloody patronising):

LOL.  :-)

 RM> (a) When a pupil comes to you with wonder in his eyes and says
 RM> "Hey, I understood that!!", you don't say "There's a
bit of green
 RM> snot in your left nostril."

OH?   Oh that's right, I've never been in Aussie schools.

 RM> (b) A slip-up like that is most likely to be picked up by other
 RM> students, or by the slipupper herself. This is good, it shows
 RM> they're thinking instead of just listening.

Oh good.  :-)

 RM> (c) the phrase had a certain poetry...

It did, didn't it?  


 RM> RM> images wobbly), and whaddya know, I scored Pluto!!! Right at
 RM>
 RM> GG> :-)
 RM>
 RM> RM> limit, had to use averted vision and had to check with the
 RM> RM> shortsighted eye as well as the straight one, but it was in an
 RM> RM> empty area, and the brightness was about right, so I reckon
 RM> RM> I've scored! Does that count as satisfying??
 RM>
 RM> GG> Was it better than sex??

 RM> Hmm.. prefaced by some planning, then involving heavy lifting, a
 RM> bit of tweaking, some careful moves and gentle nudges, a lot of
 RM> concentration in dim red light, while taking care not to breathe in
 RM> the wrong direction, culminating in a buzz that I won't forget for
 RM> many years. Better than routine sex? You bet.

What is routine sex?   I don't think I've ever tried that.

Hey Rod, have I been missing something, honey?   ;-)


 RM> RM> (pardon the gush, but there's nobody else here I can tell...)
 RM> GG>    That's how most affairs start, you know.
 RM>
 RM> Shame about the distance. But since you're still listening
 RM> (briefly, no doubt...),

Yup...  only until Rod distracts me.  And I'm easily distracted by him.

BTW, I had been only using Gasson in the AVTECH echo, but earlier this
week I sent out messages on the other places I frequent (Internet
newsgroups, CBM Fidonet echos, a couple different BBS systems... the
magazines I write for...) that from 15 August forward I'm officially
using the name Gaelyne Gasson.

 RM> I spotted two comets from the backyard tonight. Hale-Bopp is easy,
 RM> it's a binocular object at the moment

Cool!  My kids tried to one up me when I told them about seing the
Southern Cross and told me that while I was gone they saw a comet.
Thanks to you (or someone on this echo), we also saw the comet, so they
didn't succeed in one-uping me.  :-)

 RM> even though it's still 3.5 a.u. out, but Kopff is quite a bit
 RM> dimmer at mag 7.4, just a vague smudge from here.

What, you mean God needs a better version of Adobe Photoshop already?
Sheesh.

 RM> Good season for comets. There have been five so far, although most
 RM> have been quite dim.

Neat.  :-)

Cheers,
Gaelyne

... I liked QWKRR128 so much, I married the programmer.  :-)
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