--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
> > <shempmcgurk@>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Maybe Barry could get some of his celebrity friends like 
the
> > > > > > Rolling Stones, Robert Crumb and the owner of the Yum-Yum
> > > > > > Whore House to hold a benefit concert to raise the funds
> > > > > > needed to sue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Nothing to sue for, Shemp. We tech writers don't
> > > > > own the rights to what we write. And since these
> > > > > definitions were in an old dBase manual last
> > > > > published in 1982 or so by a company (Ashton Tate)
> > > > > that no longer exists, even if we did there's not
> > > > > much of anyone to get the loot from. But thanks
> > > > > anyway.
> > > >
> > > > The Computer Contradictionary, which contains
> > > > the "Infinite loop. See Loop, infinite" entry,
> > > > was published in 1981 (under the title "The
> > > > Devil's DP Dictionary").
> > >
> > > You really *are* upset at not being able to write
> > > anything yourself or have any original thoughts,
> > > aren't you? Hey...it's not my fault. If you've
> > > got a problem with the thing that was supposed
> > > to have increased your "creative intelligence"
> > > not having done that, take it up with Maharishi. :-)
> >
> > Translation: Barry is upset because he got caught
> > fabricating, then got caught fabricating about his
> > fabrication.
> >
> > Nobody can say Barry isn't creative. The problem
> > is that he tries to pass his fiction off as fact.
> 
> It's not really a problem because it's pretty obvious when he does
> it...yeah, his little white lies kinda straddle reality but they 
> are, in the final analysis, harmless.

This one was.  Others aren't.

> It is fun, though, to call him on it and then watch him dig
> the hole even more trying to get out of it.
> 
> What he should do when he's caught is just smile like this
> and then we'd all laugh with him:

Love it!

Barry's big on being able to laugh at oneself.  Or
so he says.

But I suspect it's more a case of "Do what I say,
not what I do."





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