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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>You mean my larding doesn’t look like this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=645 height=268 style='width:6.7152in;height:2.7916in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D7E54C.1677BCA0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could somebody send me a screen shot of how it comes out on your computer? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 29, 2021 4:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Lardy Lardy!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>I fixed the larding for you. 8^D<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p>"If you feed a man some lard.... <o:p></o:p></p><p> ...but if you *teach* a man to lard... " <o:p></o:p></p><p>I don't know what mailtool Nick uses but the style of lardation (my coinage, rhymes with "tarnation") Nick affects seems just downright hazardous to the reader! <o:p></o:p></p><p><b><i>[NST===>What!? It’s designed to be the ultimate in reader friendliness. If you guys would get off your text only schtik and dirty your skirts with a little html muck you would see how supremely incisive and convenient my larding is. <===nst] <o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p>It seems that it is upon one of the Santa Fe denizens to sit down cheek-to-jowl (N95-to-Bandana) with Nick and help him learn one of the conventional idioms for text-larding.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p>My own Larding may be faulty I realize because I let it flow from what is easy with Thunderbird (my mail tool of choice) and since I (re)read my own material in Thunderbird I would never know if it renders uglified elsewhere/weiz.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The UNIX mailtool technique/support I grew up with was simply to add a series of > like a shell prompt at the start of each line which might or might not include a prefix unique identifier:<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p><i>>>>line from message three iterations back</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>>> line from message 2 iterations back (presumably in response to the line above)</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>> line from previous message with two "greater than" '>' symbols</i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p>or<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p><i>GEPR>>>>some statement</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>NST>>> some rephrasing of/commentary on the above statement</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>GEPR>> pithy retort</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>SASS > dumbass interjection oblique to pithy retort to rephrasing of some statement</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>current final response to the above by the current correspondent as indicated in mail header</i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p>HTML<i> formatting editors (including T-Bird) seem to do their alternative well enough, but I could be biased.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>