28 Mar
2016
28 Mar
'16
9:18 p.m.
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
Ian Johnson, are you here, when I
"accidentally" crashed your machine, and
after I fessed up to it, you referred to me as a vulgar term for the
female genitalia, then promptly hung up?
If he was a Brit or Ozite, he was merely calling you a jerk or idiot;
the word has a different connotation there, and is most often applied
to men rather than women. (This is probably calqued from French _con_,
which has shifted meaning completely.)
Christ, but this is starting to sound like some
religion or other.
<http://untroubled.org/articles/gospel-of-tux.txt>
Yes, Warren, I need to know that should I write that
history, that we
won't both get sued; how long is the Statute of Limitations anyway?
Tell the truth and shame the Devil, and fear no libel. Who's left to
sue you anyway?
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, is a tax on income.
--Lord Macnaghten (1901)