From: jmatthews@nova.wright.edu (John B. Matthews)
Subject: Re: Air Force abandoning Ada
Date: 1996/03/27
Date: 1996-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Mar27.124447.52306@nova.wright.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4iabm5$4gf@rational.rational.com
In article <4iabm5$4gf@rational.rational.com>, gabrielb@rational.com (Gabriel Bereny) writes:
> Peter Hermann (ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
> : Greg is back.
>
> He's been away learning about metaphors.
>
>> the kiss of death for Ada in the Air Force, and probably the
>> trumpet call to see which of the branches can abandon Ada the
>> quickest.
>
> I guess he didn't make it as far as the admonition against mixing
> them.
In this case, "trumpet" clearly refers to the Last Trump of
Judgement Day, a widely held metaphysical sequiter of death.
The metephor is thus apt, if not strictly "rational" :-)
John
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