On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! > > I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? > > Allow me to summarize all the salient points, and perhaps this thread > can die peacefully...
Not that fast ;) > (8) The German version of Outlook is stupid because to us Americans it > looks like everyone is talking about Root Beer all the time (Review the > thread... review the thread...) The Russian version of Oulook Express 3.0... no, it was MS Mail then, had the same icons as American version. And a lot of people were staring at this red half-sliced read can on a stick without any idea what that was. Some even thought this was a yellow-haired red postal parrot, sitting on a pole. I wonder what did Swedes, Germans and other Europeans think about that image. Why? Because in many european countries including Russia, the mailbox is a rectangular box, usually blue or yellow or white, with a mailslot and words "POST" (sometimes "Royal Post") on it. What were they drinking in Redmond, drawing a red bird on a toolbutton? > (11) Most of you apparently went to school in the Alps because it seems > to have snowed a lot and been very uneven ground. And you did funny > things with news periodicals. And with abacus too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus#Russian_abacus > (12) Struts 1.3 uses the CoR pattern. Or maybe it's the IoC pattern. > Or maybe it's the RTFM pattern. Could be the WtF pattern. No one > knows. (That's another joke... geez, if I have to tell you that I'm > really not doing a good job, am I?!?) Hey Frank, the jokes are funny enough without "it is a joke" note :) If someone cannot get it and get offended, well... maybe he gets it next time :) > (14) C is such a lousy language that NOBODY would EVER use it. Sorry > Linus, I guess that whole kernel thing of yours was a big mistake. > Ditto for Windows. Windows was actually written in Pascal first. Should stay that way. > (15) Everyone has an opinion, No one is afraid to use it. This, > interestingly enough, is the exact opposite of nuclear weapons: few have > them, everyone is afraid to use them! There is one sacred use: against aliens (not from Mexico or Canada, but from outer space). Just watched "Independence Day" yesterday. For the first time. Big mistake of me, but aliens made a bigger one. "Er... honey... take care of yourself, will you?" Caboom! The Earth is saved, radioactive meteors make a colourful fireworks. Is it not Friday yet? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
