[2314] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Hey, I miss the place too sometimes
paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 12 14:35:10 1991
> elsewhere, jokes about recursion and references to the Holy Hand
> Grenade scene are *right out*.
I seem to be replying to myself again, but this made me (oops!) happy:
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Subject: Re: why three syncs?
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In-Reply-To: button@alc.com's message of 7 Sep 91 00:32:42 GMT
Book of Wizards, chapter 5, verse 7:
"And thou shalt sync, counting to three,
And three shall be the number of the syncing,
And the number of the syncing shall be three.
Thou shalt not sync twice, except as thou proceedest directly to sync
a third time,
Nor shall thou sync four times.
Five is right out."
Win Treese Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp.
(with apologies to Monty Python)
