Big Bertha Thing burster
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Gamma Ray Bursters

v1.0
01 feb 2000
Greg Goebel
public domain

Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY


Big Bertha Thing publication

The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-

20 No. 50K primary postings (out of 26)
2 No. 600K ditto (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings (out of 200)
4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K ditto (out of 26)
20 No. 2K ditto (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings (out of 2000)

There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.

Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.

The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance
judemarie (AT) bigberthathing (DOT) co.uk


From: Tony Lance <judemarie (AT) bigberthathing (DOT) co.uk>
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing warlord
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:21:24 +0000

Saturday, November 15, 1997 12:40:38 PM
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Re(2): Fwd(3): Outlandish Request for Volunteers
To: Carol Yeats
Cc: Rick Holyomes
George Ho-Yow
FC Mods Discussion
Philip Sims
Big Bertha Thing 6(with apologies for use of CTRL R)

Please accept my apologies for troubling you. It will not of course be repeated.
However 3 mods have responded to my call to help out on the Conf. by volunteering.
In emergency situations, needs must. You and your fellow mods number 3 I see.
Mods have broad shoulders and thick skins and I trust compassion.
Thank you,
Tony Lance.


Big Bertha Thing 7

By way of light relief, a similar general apology, to the one
above, would bring solace and comfort, to the victims of such
well intentioned postings. Please put it in a Big Bertha and
address to CP Conf., Mods Conf. and Philip Sims. That of course,
would be the end of spam.

Big Bertha Thing Extract
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Extract from Readme file to explain the Outlandish Particle Periodic Table.

From Pastures Software Package Documentation.
(Particle Structure Results Program in Fortran 77.)
Sub-atomic Mesons, Baryons and Leptons Classification System.
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1997
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Big Bertha Thing Deaf

One day God woke up, deaf-as-a-post. He could not hear anyone
speaking. Nothing, dinada, zilch, not even one line e-mail.
Fortunately it only lasted 6 days and He managed to keep himself busy.

A PPT takes 6 hours people time, 18 hours computer time. It just
seems longer.

Tony Lance
judemarie (AT) bigberthathing (DOT) co.uk


From: Tony Lance <judemarie (AT) bigberthathing (DOT) co.uk>
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing warlord
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:13:15 +0000


Sunday, November 16, 1997 04:39:18 PM
Message
From: Mansour Abou Jaoudy
Subject: Re: Fwd: Big Bertha Thing 5
To: Tony Lance
Hiya Tony

There are some questions about what do you mean by the postings of "big bertha thing"
thread.
people are confused (me too). it will be nice if you could explain,
before they put you in fire ;-))

take care
Mansour

Big Bertha Thing pathos
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Detail from painting of captive musketeers.

Caption:-
Porthos took hold of a bar (foot rail) with both hands

From the book
Twenty Years After
by Alexandre Dumas
Published by George G.Harrup & Co.Ltd., 1923
Reprinted 1929
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Big Bertha Thing poem

Some Days, Then Some

by Tony Lance

I've had better days, he thought and said.
When I could get my sorry butt out of bed.
When I wasn't mistook for as good as dead.
When they didn't fill my boots with all that lead.

There are days sometimes, of sunshine on my head.
Windswept shores viewed from along a beachy-head.
Carefree larks, in a clearly blue sky, over-head.
Then of course, I became a headmaster, the old man said.

Tony Lance
judemarie (AT) bigberthathing (DOT) co.uk


Sunday, November 16, 1997 05:19:05 PM
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Re(2): Fwd: Big Bertha Thing 5
To: FC Mods Discussion
First Big Bertha posting was to first aid tent in CP Conf. to provide aid and comfort to
victims who had been set upon by unnamed thugs. There was no way to make direct contact,
with shell shocked victims. The trick worked and first victim is well again.
Since then she has developed a life of her own and actually caught some thugs in the act.
Children will be children. The full set of Big Bertha can be found on CP Conf.
Thank you,
Tony Lance