[1631] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue Jul 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 11 01:34:04 1989
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 01:34:17 EDT
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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jon (Jon A. Rochlis):
"Where are we headed today?"
"I don't know," he said. "I don't know where we're headed."
"What do you mean? You know the past and future of all things. You
know exactly where we're going!"
He sighed. "Yeah. But I try not to think about it."
Richard Bach, Illusions.
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paul (Paul Boutin):
(From today's Guardian (UK national newspaper), Wednesday 21st June)
"Correction
Because of the startling simplicity of computer programme logic, the
Labour Party's successful candidate in the London South West seat of
the European elections was printed on Monday as Ms A J Turnoutack,
rather than Ms A J Pollack. On Tuesday, her name was again spelt
incorrectly.
The computer programme which run [sic] to massage the results into
printed form changed each occurrence of the work Poll, into Turnout."
(Spotted by Simon Seely)
--
Martyn Thomas, Praxis plc, 20 Manvers Street, Bath BA1 1PX UK.
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srz (Stanley R Zanarotti):
I see that Athena is looking for new ways of slowing down the login sequence.
And they seem to have succeeded.
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wesommer (Bill Sommerfeld):
Found in fortune, possibly relevant to the recent MBTA fare hike:
I for one cannot protest the recent M. T. A. fare hike and the
accompanying promises that this would in no way improve service. For
the transit system, as it now operates, has hidden advantages that
can't be measured in monetary terms.
Personally, I feel that it is well worth 75 cents or even $1 to have
that unimpeachable excuse whenever I am late to anything: "I came by
subway." Those four words have such magic in them that if Godot should
someday show up and mumble them, any audience would instantly
understand his long delay.
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