[109474] in Cypherpunks
Re: I was very tired when I made that comment...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese (aka Reeza!))
Thu Mar 25 11:31:04 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:08:22 -1000
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: "Reese (aka Reeza!)" <reeza@flex.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04020a03b31ebe5466a2@[139.167.130.249]>
Reply-To: "Reese (aka Reeza!)" <reeza@flex.com>
It is another ridiculous claim, but placed back into the context it was
removed from, it is apparent that it was said for humorous effect, at which
it was locally successful.
At 11:08 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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>Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:42:23 -0500
>To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
>Subject: I was very tired when I made that comment...
>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:38:15 -0500
>From: glen mccready <glen@qnx.com>
>Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
>Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request@substance.blackdown.org
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>Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev@bostic.com>
>Forwarded-by: Golan Klinger <falco@vex.net>
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>I was pretty tired when I made that comment because I had been up very
>late the night before inventing the camcorder.
> -- Vice President Al Gore speaking to the Democratic National
> Committee about his comments in which he claimed to have
> invented the Internet.
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>Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
>Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
>44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
>"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
>[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
>experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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