[oclug] Fun idea for an upcoming meeting

Francis Pinteric linuxdoctor at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 23 15:14:18 EST 2001


--- Jonathan Earle <jearle at nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Francis Pinteric [mailto:linuxdoctor at yahoo.com]
> 
> (of all people!!!)
> 
> > Who knows, mayber Windows might be could for something
> > after all besides the dung heap. I know, I know. Mea cupla, mea
> > maxima culpa.
> 
> Oh my dear Lord in Heaven... I think I just had an aneurysm.
>

I had one of those. Most unpleasant. The recovery from that was easy,
getting over the drugs they gave me was a whole other story.

> Francis suggesting that the tools of the Devil might have a useful
> use?!
> 
> Oh dear, oh dear...  <much wringing of hands and furrowing of brow>
>  What
> will come of our souls?  Our saviour blaspheming his own teachings!
> 
> Heretic... stake... fire. 
> 
> "Burn him!"  
>   "How do you know he's a heretic?" 
> "'E writes like one!"
> 

Fine. I retract it. Actually, when I suggested the use of Windows I
meant do add that it would be fun to include a Windows solution just
to show how better Linux is at "real world problems." I should have
elaborated more on this point. Mea culpa, once again.

>>>--fja->

P.S. Got out of that one.

===
"... we forget that we cannot impress software, no matter what
your rank."
  -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, co-designer of COBOL and
     coiner of the word 'bug', circa 1970.



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