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  • Re: Premiere League soccer player and brother dead in auto accident

    From gazelle@gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) to alt.obituaries on Fri Jul 4 16:11:58 2025
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    In article <be060c3d776989de9f3053dcf6648b2c@www.novabbs.com>,
    Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
    A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
    July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.

    B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with >mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.

    To a first reading, it looks like Bob was contesting the facts, and arguing that the deaths did, indeed, occur 3 months ago. That was also my take,
    until I realized that wasn't his intent. Rather, he was just nitpicking
    the date notation - arguing that July 3 should be written 3/7 rather than 7/3.

    See my previous response for why he is wrong about this.
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  • From jsnsmith565@jsnsmith565@gmail.com (Jason) to alt.obituaries on Fri Jul 4 17:20:14 2025
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    On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 16:11:58 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:

    In article <be060c3d776989de9f3053dcf6648b2c@www.novabbs.com>,
    Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
    A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
    July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.

    B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with >>mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.

    To a first reading, it looks like Bob was contesting the facts, and
    arguing
    that the deaths did, indeed, occur 3 months ago. That was also my take, until I realized that wasn't his intent. Rather, he was just nitpicking
    the date notation - arguing that July 3 should be written 3/7 rather
    than 7/3.

    See my previous response for why he is wrong about this.


    Thanks for the clarification, Kenny.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to alt.obituaries on Fri Jul 4 17:33:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.obituaries

    Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
    Fri, 4 Jul 2025 16:11:58 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
    Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:

    A. It says they died on a THURSDAY.
    July 3, 2025 was a Thurs, but March 7 was a Friday.

    B. This story was all over the news and sports yesterday and today, with >>>mention of upcoming funeral. Not a 3 month old news story.

    To a first reading, it looks like Bob was contesting the facts, and
    arguing that the deaths did, indeed, occur 3 months ago. That was also
    my take, until I realized that wasn't his intent. Rather, he was just >>nitpicking the date notation - arguing that July 3 should be written
    3/7 rather than 7/3.

    See my previous response for why he is wrong about this.

    Thanks for the clarification, Kenny.

    For what it's worth, I found six articles from bob.martin@excite.com,
    four of which were pedantic complaints about how the regulars on this
    group posted. The other two articles weren't off topic but barely above
    noise.

    I do not see that he's ever posted an obituary.

    Clearly, his main contribution to Usenet is trolling. If readers kill
    filed him, they'd be missing nothing of interest.
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