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mph-humor Digest V97 #4


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mph-humor Digest				Volume 97 : Issue 4

Today's Topics:
	 Re: Scully....Apple....Poland
	 Feature request for Cyberdog
	 [alt.folklore.computers] Re: History of the @ sign
	 [alt.sysadmin.recovery] Re: Plumbing luser
	 [rec.games.roguelike.angband] Re: Random Artefacts the exe.
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Somebody recently pointed out an article on the web by former CEO John
Sculley about Apple's current problems.  Here's nice response:


In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (R. Seckler) writes:

> Sculley on Apple is like Poland discussing its great strategic moves in WWII



--
Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )

Imagine buying a new car and discovering that the door locks don't
work, the steering wheel makes the car turn in the wrong direction, and
it sometimes goes around and around in circles. Then it stops dead and
all the air comes hissing out of the tires.  That, roughly, is what my
experience with a PC was like. -Mike Royko, The Chicago Tribune
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Brandon King wrote:

>And another thing that I REALLY LOVED ABOUT NETSCAPE THAT YOU'RE MISSING!
>WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE CRASHES?!?!  I MEAN I'VE BEEN USING THIS THING FOR
>AT LEAST THREE HOURS, AND I HAVEN'T CRASHED YET! AND WHAT'S WITH THIS FANCY
>SCHMANCY DRAG AND DROP TEXT THING!?!  The nerve of some people...



--
Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )

Anyone who's watched Microsoft will recognize a familiar tactic in the
NetPC scenario:
1) Rival comes up with a potential threat. 2) Microsoft makes a big splash
hyping a new, better product; brings in lots of partners. 3) Time passes.
Market freezes. Everyone waits. 4) "Well, gee...," Microsoft mumbles
eventually. "Maybe we won't have exactly the product we promised or quite
as soon."
-ZDNet Anchordesk ( http://www5.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_723.html )
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From: [email protected] (Jukka Akkanen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: History of the @ sign
Date: 3 Mar 1997 16:48:30 -0500
Organization: Battle Creek Fortune Cookie Co.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

>My wife and I actually talked about this recently, the @ (at sign) is
>either the lower case form of the AE character combination or a fancy
>way of writing ea, as in each.

Now, that is all wrong and completely false! 

More likely, '@' used to be the 'cat' sign.  Come to think of it, it
even looks like one, long tail and all.  Unfortunately people could not
see how having a 'cat' sign would be useful, thus, when they were told
'cat' they insisted on hearing 'at.'

>  We assume that it was used originaly as ea (each), as in 25 pounds of
>fish @ $1.00 (each $1.00)  and people re-interpreted to at...  This is

Close but no cigar.  This example does feature correct usage of the
'cat' sign but actually reads 25# of catfish, or maybe 25# of fish for
[a] cat.  You can see how in this case re-interpreting the 'cat' sign as
an 'at' sign seems to result in a correct sentence; yet it still amazes
me how widespread this misconception has become.

-Jukka
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From: [email protected] (Tom Womack)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Re: Plumbing luser
Date: 3 Mar 1997 23:43:13 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computer Society
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

Kai Henningsen ([email protected]) wrote:
: [email protected] (Kai Henningsen)  wrote on 02.03.97 in <[email protected]>:

: > somebody else said somewhere, I can get just as drunk without any C2COOH

: Urgh. Don't know what I was thinking there. CH3COOH, of course.

Ah ... a vinegar drinker. Try ethanol. It works better.

--
Tom

Why do I have a .sig when I have to change it when posting to most groups?
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Admittedly, a familiarity with "The Lord of the Rings" is helpful for
this one...

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From: [email protected] (I.J. Bush)
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.angband
Subject: Re: Random Artefacts the exe.
Date: 4 Mar 1997 14:23:23 GMT
Organization: Daresbury Lab, Warrington, U.K.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]

In article <[email protected]>, "john.may" <[email protected]> writes:
|> U 2 can have artefacts like these below!!!!

SNIP !

|> i) The Soft Leather Armour of Galadriel [4,+20] (+3)


Where's the "Handcuffs of Celeborn" and "The Whip of Lothlorien" ?

Ian

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