From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing?
Date: 1999/05/28
Date: 1999-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7in5am$9co$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 374ED920.4FD22EC0@pwfl.com
In article <374ED920.4FD22EC0@pwfl.com>,
diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:
> Well, in trying to make a play on "The Great American Novel" which
> everyone wants to write upon retiring from the rat race, I guess I was
> being a little insensitive to the international quality of Ada. Pardon
> my ethnocentricism ;-)
The phrase "rat race" is demeaning to laboratory rodents and marketing
executives. The marketing executives of course we don't care about, but
tick off the rodents and you're liable to wake up one morning to hear
that Ada has been found to cause cancer...
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-26 0:00 When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing? Chris
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-28 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-05-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dbotton
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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