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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada e-books
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:25:20 -0500
Date: 2015-11-20T17:25:20-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tbkcnqn.fsf@theworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n2o2br$bo8$1@loke.gir.dk

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Bob Duff" <bobduff@theworld.com> wrote in message 
> news:87610xd47a.fsf@theworld.com...
>> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>>
>>> "device" to me says something about hardware (a mouse is a device, a 
>>> printer
>>> is a device), not software.
>>
>> Look up "Duff's Device".  (No relation to me, by the way.)
>
> Reading that, I thought of you first, and then of the Simpsons, and then of 
> the cake guy on the Food Network. A "device" involving any of the seemed 
> pretty humorous to me. So I'm laughing too much to look anything up. :-)

Well, you'll laugh even harder when you read about Duff's Device.

(And I repeat: I did NOT invent Duff's Device.)

- Bob

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-20 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17 22:55 Ada e-books Serge Robyns
2015-11-17 23:01 ` Paul Rubin
2015-11-18  8:29   ` Serge Robyns
2015-11-18 12:14     ` Dirk Craeynest
2015-11-19  9:41       ` Serge Robyns
2015-11-19 18:19         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-19 18:35           ` Simon Wright
2015-11-19 20:51             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-19 21:29               ` J-P. Rosen
2015-11-19 22:10                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-19 21:50             ` Randy Brukardt
2015-11-19 22:10               ` Simon Wright
2015-11-19 22:17               ` Bob Duff
2015-11-20 21:12                 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-11-20 22:25                   ` Bob Duff [this message]
2015-11-22  3:27                     ` John Smith
2015-11-23  9:45                       ` Serge Robyns
2015-11-25 14:01             ` leif.roar
2015-11-25 17:03             ` Paul Rubin
2015-11-19 19:44           ` Serge Robyns
2015-11-20  1:33         ` Steve Johnson
2015-11-19  1:24     ` Steve Johnson
2015-11-19  9:27       ` Hadrien Grasland
2015-11-17 23:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-11-18  3:12 ` David Botton
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