"Benni" <Benni.145619b@foodbanter.com> wrote in message
news:Benni.145619b@foodbanter.com...
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> Omelet;984681 Wrote:
>> In article 5m8av9Fcaq0mU1@mid.individual.net,
>> Becca becca@hal-pc.org wrote:
>>
>> You must have been in bad shape, for them to keep you that long. You
>> are
>> lucky to be alive.
>>
>> "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their
>> foot down." -- Steve Rothstein
>
> Well I am new to forums and after reading through this lot I am
> somewhat confused as to what the point of it all was. Seemed to be an
> awful lot of stuff way off the original point.

In any newsgroup, after a few post there tens to be some drift of the
subject. By 10 posts, you'd never guess what the original question was.
Sometimes this is good (you learn a lot from tangential material), sometimes
it is bad.