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Terry Lambert
tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Tue Jun 10 23:13:31 PDT 2003
"Michal F. Hanula" wrote:
> > started with the letter N". That, or "Steelypips", though
> > "Trurl" does have "URL" in it...
>
> Where did ``Steelypips'' come from? Remind me of The Cyberiad,
> but I've only read it in Czech, so it really shouldn't.
The Cyberiad, English translation. It's also in the fortunes
database on FreeBSD, because someone had taste. 8-).
> (The machine that can make anything beginning with N is a good idea. We
> could even force it to make Natrium if we had a latin locale)
If it could make anything beginning with 'N' in any language,
the it would be a machine that could make anything, since
everything can be said to begin with 'N' in *some* language...
-- Terry
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