From: brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Morgoth's Law (Re: is it possible to kill morgoth?) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:16:36 -0400 Organization: Oak Road Systems Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <73ori9.521.ln@linxi.fqdn.th-h.de>

<9ivrei$l36hg$1@ID-81911.news.dfncis.de> <9j10d9$dtb$1@usenet.otenet.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.6f.2a X-Server-Date: 20 Jul 2001 02:15:23 GMT X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pinatubo.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:44380 It seems Donald Shepherd wrote in rec.arts.books.tolkien: >Morgoth. Gravity's evil I tell you. Imagine how few injuries there >would be if it didn't exist. Actually, what we now know as "Murphy's Law" is a corruption, over the centuries, of the original term "Morgoth's Law". Things tend to go wrong in every possible way because of the Morgoth-element in them. This also explains why newsgroup threads drift away from their original topics but keep their original subject lines. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://oakroadsystems.com Tolkien FAQs: http://home.uchicago.edu/~sbjensen/Tolkien/ Tolkien letters FAQ: http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/lettersfaq.html Encyclopedia of Arda: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm more FAQs: http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/faqget.htm ###### Message-ID: <3B580EA7.6D859574@free.fr> From: "Edward J. Kloczko" Reply-To: ejk@free.fr X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Morgoth's Law (Re: is it possible to kill morgoth?) References: <73ori9.521.ln@linxi.fqdn.th-h.de>

<9ivrei$l36hg$1@ID-81911.news.dfncis.de> <9j10d9$dtb$1@usenet.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 13 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:55:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.27.54.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp3.proxad.net 995622945 212.27.54.24 (Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:55:45 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:55:45 CEST Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pinatubo.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!teaser.fr!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!nnrp3.proxad.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:44363 Stan Brown a écrit: > > > This also explains why newsgroup threads drift away from their > original topics but keep their original subject lines. > LOL! At last a good explanation of that !!! EJK ###### From: brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Morgoth's Law (Re: is it possible to kill morgoth?) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:27:53 -0400 Organization: Oak Road Systems Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <73ori9.521.ln@linxi.fqdn.th-h.de>

<9ivrei$l36hg$1@ID-81911.news.dfncis.de> <9j10d9$dtb$1@usenet.otenet.gr> <3B580EA7.6D859574@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.6f.2a X-Server-Date: 21 Jul 2001 00:26:37 GMT X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pinatubo.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!lsanca1-snf1!news.gtei.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:44368 It seems Edward J. Kloczko wrote in rec.arts.books.tolkien: >Stan Brown a écrit: >> This also explains why newsgroup threads drift away from their >> original topics but keep their original subject lines. > >LOL! > >At last a good explanation of that !!! Morgoth's influence is evident in many networking activities, both Internet and LAN. I believe one form of peer setup for LANs is known as Morgoth's Ring. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://oakroadsystems.com Tolkien FAQs: http://home.uchicago.edu/~sbjensen/Tolkien/ Tolkien letters FAQ: http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/lettersfaq.html Encyclopedia of Arda: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm more FAQs: http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/faqget.htm ###### From: Donald Shepherd Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Morgoth's Law (Re: is it possible to kill morgoth?) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:49:51 +1000 Organization: Chicken Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <73ori9.521.ln@linxi.fqdn.th-h.de>

<9ivrei$l36hg$1@ID-81911.news.dfncis.de> <9j10d9$dtb$1@usenet.otenet.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 229-15-30-203-cns.nq.net X-Trace: gnamma.connect.com.au 995680008 1331 203.30.15.229 (21 Jul 2001 01:46:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@connect.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jul 2001 01:46:48 GMT X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pinatubo.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:44311 In article , brahms@mindspring.com says... > It seems Donald Shepherd wrote in > rec.arts.books.tolkien: > >Morgoth. Gravity's evil I tell you. Imagine how few injuries there > >would be if it didn't exist. > > Actually, what we now know as "Murphy's Law" is a corruption, over > the centuries, of the original term "Morgoth's Law". Things tend to > go wrong in every possible way because of the Morgoth-element in > them. > > This also explains why newsgroup threads drift away from their > original topics but keep their original subject lines. /me is stumped trying to figure out what this has to do with Morgoth creating gravity. Oh well, nice explanation anyway :). -- Donald Shepherd Classic Opening Lines from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest: "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins often do."