On Friday 15 September 2006 02:11 pm, Fred Cisin wrote:
Adam Osborne: (v) to make an announcement, and
simultaneously
destroy thatannouncement by mentioning something better coming soon;
cf "shoot in the foot"
(really miss him and his style)
:-)
The one and only time I made it to the big computer thingy at Trenton there
was a talk there about that very thing, which was quite entertaining...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin