On Aug 26, 7:47*pm, "Wolfgang" wrote:
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On Aug 26, 6:11 pm, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Wolfgang
who, if he had only known at the time what a horror his childhood was,
would
have skipped it altogether.
Indeed, probably comes from showing one too many your "peenie".

If the number of references to it that show up here are any indication, I
have indeed.

As for genius, regardless of how or why it may occur, it is most
unlikely that you will find it among this particular motley crew of
socially dysfunctional misfits.

As virtually everyone knows, genius is that which possessed by those whose
intellectual attainments are equal (or nearly so, at any rate) to "mine."

Never mind, at least I don´t think your name is funny.

Perhaps a reflection on your place of residence.

Just imagine
the problems you might have had if you had been called Ibrahim, or
Hussein, or Ali.

About the same sorts of problems one would have expected for a young lad
named Wolfgang in America fifty odd years ago? *Any such expectations then
were doomed to be dashed, as I suppose they would be today for most
Ibrahims, Husseins or Alis here. *The embarrassing truth is that most people
here are really pretty much absorbed in tending to their own affairs and
leaving to others their own. *The small minority of stridently vocal haters
are, in the world at large as here in roff, a small minority of stridently
vocal haters.

On the other hand, you might then have been nominated for president of
something or other.

Something or other like that has happened. *I take it as indicative of
something or other......or maybe not.

Wouldn´t stop the infidel dogs howling
incoherently at you,

Nothing will.....not in the large picture, anyway. *As for individual
infidel dogs, well, who gets howled at by whom in this particular forum is a
matter of public record. *They don't keep ME awake.

but you could at least laugh at them with some
conviction?

I could, I can, I do laugh at them. *Whether or not that laughter carries
conviction doesn't interest me much. *Thus, if the question of conviction is
a problem, it ain't mine.

Tending to the theory that a certain facility with a language, either
your own or someone else´s, indicates at least a modicum of
intelligence,

A matter about which little of use has been said despite an appalling
avalanche of verbiage over the centuries since reification became popular..

one is then bound to wonder why somebody who obviously
possesses such would bother even attempting to communicate in any
meaningful way with those who obviously do not.

One would be well advised to first determine whether any such attempt has
been made.

With regard to the original question about bamboo rods. *You might be
lucky and find a rod in a second hand shop rod which will be OK to
fish with, and you might even be incredibly lucky and find a very good
one, but this is most unlikely.
You can buy pretty good bamboo fishing rods and blanks for not too
much money;

I'm pretty sure that I'm not in the market for bamboo fishing rods. *But,
thanks anyway.

Wolfgang

Ah, OK, so to rephrase slightly, merely in order to facilitate my own
understanding of your understanding;

"It ain´t material"

Yeah, I noticed a severe dearth of nickels of late, shiny new or
otherwise. A widespread phenomenon it seems.

Wanna buy a house? Cheap?