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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
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"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