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- From: farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson -- Faint Praise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.073341.5606@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <BxwrDD.M7A@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1992Nov18.175422.3033@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Nov18.205414.14302@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 07:33:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.205414.14302@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Daniel.Tessier@bnr.ca writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.175422.3033@dragon.acadiau.ca>, 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:
- >|> Craig.Humphrey@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Andrew Humphrey) writes:
- >|> >pictures for their PS/2 machines, to run as a backdrop under windoze. Now the
- >|> ^^^^^^^
- >|> Learn to spell WINDOWS!! You know, like the thing you look out to see
- >|> outside while you're indoors!
- >Actually, I kinda like the "windoze" spelling myself... Maybe the
- >humor of it is wasted on you? windoze... doze... as in "doze off"...
- >sleep... Get it?
-
- I thought it was kind of cute, personally. How many of us don't
- daydream a bit as we're gazing out a window?
-
- >|> Once again, learn to spell...and get a life!
- >Oh well, maybe you could get a sense of humor?
-
- I've always wondered about that insult, "get a life!" The idea of one
- technogeek saying that another should get a life is amusing, but
- hardly insulting.
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