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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 354951" data-attributes="member: 537">Or to make sense of it, even. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />=== RESPOT ===He threw the thread into the killfile. I was alarmed at this, because after many posts the thread had become precious to me, and I did not want anyone plonking it. I immediately went to remove it from the killfile, but he stopped me. I would have flamed him, but as I watched, the thread mutated and _changed_ before my very eyes, escaping the killfile with ease. It sat in the newsgroup, glowing softly on the screen."There is no craft that we possess that is powerful enough to plonk this thread,", he said. He picked up a pair of tongs and removed the thread from the newsgroup."Look at it," he said. "What do you see?""I see nothing", I said; but even as I said those words, I saw fiery lines appear on the thread, etching out letters in 10-point Courier text (72 characters per line)*. They flickered and shone piercingly bright, as might great flames roaring from a distance.  Bar guernq gb ehyr gurz nyy, Bar guernq gb ovaq gurz,  Bar guernq gb oevat gurz nyy, Naq va gur qnexarff synzr gurz."I cannot read the fiery letters," I said."No," he said, "but I can. The letters are ROT13, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Dungeons and Dragons, which I will not utter here. But this in the common tongue is what is said, close enough:One thread to rule them all,One thread to bind them,One thread to bring them all,And with big words confuse them,In the land of UNsenet where the trolls abide."He paused, and then said in a low voice: "This is undoubtedly the One Thread, the Alignment Thread to flame them all. This is the One Thread that was spawned in the dim past of rec.games.frp.dnd, and has come once again to haunt us."=== END RESOTP ===* It is said that in the elder days, all computer displays used 80 columns of monospaced text, hard though this may be to imagine.</blockquote>

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