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Gary Kline
kline at thought.org
Sat Jul 24 20:55:34 UTC 2010
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:05:14 -0700, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> > I'm reminded of when some Christian groups called for a boycott of
> > Apple because they had an OS project code-named "Darwin." Some people
> > will just go out of their way to look for reasons to take offense.
I guess ao! I mean, who has anything against Ralph Darwin?
He was the absolute nicest fellow ever born ... {Foxy wife, too.]
>
> I'm reminded to a specific "Computer Stupidity", and please
> forgive me that I quote it here:
>
> Tech Support: "All right...now double-click on the
> File Manager icon."
> Customer: "That's why I hate this Windows -- because of
> the icons -- I'm a Protestant, and I don't
> believe in icons."
> Tech Support: "Well, that's just an industry term sir.
> I don't believe it was meant to --"
> Customer: "I don't care about any 'Industry Terms'.
> I don't believe in icons."
> Tech Support: "Well...why don't you click on the
> 'little picture' of a file cabinet...is
> 'little picture' ok?"
> Customer: [click]
>
> http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_icons.shtml
>
>
> Sorry. :-)
>
I would sigh, but i'm all sighed out right now....
>
>
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> Polytropon
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