In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/24/2006
at 07:24 PM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Sysprogs now long for the days
>Of blinking lights and card trays.
>With tears in their eyes,
>They wave fond good-byes
>To feats that no longer amaze.
Not I; I abandoned cards as quickly as possible.
>Based on contextual analysis and a dimly remembered phrase from my
>Christian education I managed to understand Shmuel's first Hebrew
>word, the one with the question mark.
I didn't realize that Lamah appeared in Biblical Hebrew. IAC, the
point was that there are multilingual American systems programmers and
that the comment was prejudiced.
>Shmuel, cryptic as ever, didn't actually mention "das Weib"
No, I was thinking of "mädchen"; I'm not familiar with "Weib".
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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