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From: "Lee Steffensen" <>
Subject: Re: Information for the List
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 16:19:26 -0700


It's SO NICE to have you back Roy!!!
Lee Steffensen
Nevada City, Ca.

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>From: Roy Stockdill <>
>To:
>Subject: Information for the List
>Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2001, 3:50 PM
>

> THE Listowner wrote.....
>
>>>> Today is APRIL 1st, often known as April Fools Day. If there is the
> usual
>> crop of infantile practical jokes from Roy and co I will close the
> list.<<
>
> PERHAPS before posting such a message, it might have been best if our
> Beloved Leader had checked in the archives to see whether, in fact, I
> posted an April Fool joke last year because I don't recall doing so,
> myself. Thus, the use of a phrase such as "the usual crop of infantile
> practical jokes from Roy and co" could be held to be defamatory, since it
> suggests a previous behaviour pattern which did not actually occur -
> undoubtedly a libellous suggestion and my lawyers, Sue, Grabbethedosh and
> Runne are watching.
>
> I might add that it is common knowledge throughout the genealogical world
> that I have spent the last three days at the Guild of One-Name Studies
> Conference and AGM in Berkshire, listening to some fascinating lectures
> from real family historians and meeting lots of old friends and some new
> ones, including one or two from this list. I say "common knowledge" because
> I posted the fact on every list to which I belong. I have been offline for
> the last 3 days, therefore there was never a chance I would be posting
> anything, "infantile" or otherwise.
>
> I did, though, in skipping quickly through around a dozen or more Digests
> on my return from the Conference this evening, notice some pretty infantile
> postings from one or two morons with dodgy e-mail addresses, the brains of
> a dead mongoose and the guts of a spineless toad. I wonder what the
> Listowner will have to say about those postings? Rest assured that had I
> bothered to post an April Fool joke it would have been substantially more
> intelligent and sophisticated than the puerile ramblings of a bunch of
> brain-dead jerks with a combined IQ of four and a half.
>
> Roy Stockdill
> Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies
> The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS)
> STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP
> GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North &
> West Ridings
> MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire
> Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:-
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock
> Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org
> ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you.
> If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and
> humorist 1771-1845)
>
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