--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> 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"). > > > > They may have gotten it from him. > > Um, not a year or more before he thought of it > and put it in his company's manual (if it was > even him that did it). > > > /shrug. Many computer jokes are rather obvious to the > > people who have the technical background. Some jokes > > probably sprang up independently many times over the > > years. > > Not impossible, but given Barry's penchant for > story-telling, not likely in this case.
Judy, Judy, Judy... We *get* it. You became an editor because you don't really have what it takes to write yourself, but you like pretending that you do. So you picked a profession that allows you to "correct" the writing of others. And we *get* that you don't really have any original thoughts yourself, so you chose a philosophy (TM) that actually *strokes* its followers for parroting its ideas, and badraps them for having any of their own. And I think we *get* that sometimes you feel embarrassed about these things, and wish that you were a bit more creative *or* original. But don't you think that a better way to deal with this might be to actually think up and post something creative or original? Spending all your energy trying to prove that everyone is like you and can only steal ideas doesn't seem to me to be as effective a strategy as you think it is... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
