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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada e-books
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:12:26 -0600
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"Bob Duff" <bobduff@theworld.com> wrote in message 
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> "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. :-)

               Randy.