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George Ramsower
georgeramsower at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 11:02:28 EDT 2008
Hah!
Where I work, they are SO politically correct it's sickening. So I do trash
them with my totally politically incorrect stuff.
It's amazing and amuzing, the reactions I get from my superiors, when I do
that.
"Oh! We can't say those things here. Someone might take offence and their
lawyers are bigger than our lawyers"
I betcha that if I were to talk about a COCO at work, they might find
something in that to be scared of.
BTW. Al Gore never said he invented or helped invent the internet. I'm sure
you said this in jest. Fair is fair...
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
> It's been in every edition of Eric Raymond's "New Hacker's Dictionary",
> both the dead tree versions from MIT Press and the on-line Jargon File.
>
> I'll admit that I first saw it less than 25 years ago, when Al Gore was
> first inventing the Internet but Usenet hat recently gone through the
> Great Renaming.
>
> When I meet Eric at science fiction conventions we don't talk about
> computers or Open Source since there's no grounds for debate. We prefer
> to cause heart failure in the liberals by talking about guns and and
> anarchism (no grounds for debate there, either, but we talk to piss off
> the liberals so we discuss preferences in calibers and loads). (Yes,
> we're old friends -- he used to date mi esposa a decade and some before I
> came to the east coast, but by the time I got here he was happily married
> to a [beautiful] Philadelphia lawyer).
> --
> Ward Griffiths wdg3rd at comcast.net
>
> These histrionics were probably unnecessary, since there was no reason to
> think anybody would be watching us with more than casual interest until I
> made my first move to follow Buchanon's trail, in London. Still, somebody
> might check back this far later, and I always feel that if you're going to
> play a part, you might as well play it all the way, at least in public --
> and it's hard to tell what's public and what isn't, these electronic days.
> Donald Hamilton, _The Devastators_, 1965
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Gene Heskett
>> On Friday 01 August 2008, George Ramsower wrote:
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Torsten Dittel"
>> >
>> >>>>> Vas ist?
>> >>>
>> >>> How can you joke about such a thing? I am _horribly_ offended by
>> >>> your
>> >>> poor German spelling...
>> >>
>> >> Diss nein nein Stackenblochen!
>> >>
>> >> ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAdxN1IWQQ )
>> >>
>> >> ;-)))
>> >
>> >Back in the day... before the internet and BBS systems, fax machines
>> >passed
>> >info and jokes around quite nicely...
>> >
>> >This one was to be posted on complex machines, I suppose.
>> >
>> > I used it on our radio automation system..If memory serves me
>> > correctly,
>> >this type of play was called GermEnglish.
>> >
>> >
>> >ACHTUNG -ALLES LOOKENPEEPERS
>> >
>> > Alles touristen und non-technischen lookenpeepers! Das
>> >machinkontrol is nicht for gefengerpoken und mittengrabben.
>> >Oderwise is easy schnappen der springenverk, blowenfuse,
>> >undpoppencorken mit spitzensparken.
>> >
>> > Der machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur geverken
>> >by das dumpkopfen. Das rubber necken sightseenen, keepen
>> >das cotton-picken hands in das pockets.
>> >
>> >So relaxen, und vatchen das blinkenlights
>> >
>> >
>> Sheesh, George, I haven't seen that one in 30 years, thanks.
>>
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