begin quoting Joshua Penix as of Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:22:49PM -0800: > Outhouse and Winsucks? C'mon, aren't we past that? I'm pretty sure > it ceased being funny years ago, and now simply induces eye-rolling.
Doesn't it depend as to whether they're being forced down your throat or not? There are people who are trying to figure out how to make everyone in sight use MSOutlook. After all, they've "standardized" on MSWindows (many different and slightly incompatable versions), MSProject (many different and incompatible versions), MSWord (many different but fairly interoperable versions), and MSExcel (With! Custom! Macros!). > For fun, first use of "Winsucks" I can find on Usenet was in 1994 by > John Siracusa, now one of the excellent technical writers over at Ars > Technica. It was posted in comp.sys.mac.advocacy in a debate about > keyboard shortcut consistency between the OSes. > > http://tinyurl.com/yl9926 > > Searching Usenet for the origins of the word "Outhouse" is probably > best left as an exercise for others. :) Don't forget "Sexchange". I'd rather people remember that it's "MS Windows", not "Windows", and "MS Outlook", not just "Outlook". Don't let the bastards change the meanings of common words to benefit themselves. I'll still write M$, however, even though I haven't written any BASIC is *years*. Thank god. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
