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- From: reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: q(.)(.)lth-less-ness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.133052.11225@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:30:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.213606.10341@black.ox.ac.uk> <9301120345.AA20856@prg.ox.ac.uk>
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- In article <9301120345.AA20856@prg.ox.ac.uk>, gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold) writes:
- >
- > There is nothing qool, whacky, nor in the least bit bizarre about statistics
- > collected on the poor hoggets who have to fight the ever-helpful OUCS to be
- > able to read news. Damn it all, I carefully avoid reading newsfroups like
- > oucs.publicly.snooping.on.its.users and oucs.extremely.boring.statistics and
- > oucs.ooooh.look.reese.posted.thirteen.articles.to.talk.bizarre just so that
- > I don't have to see this sort of cock-eyed codswallop.
- >
- > Nor is there anything in the very least bit bizarre about Oxford University
- > Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, UK (achh, pffft) either, bless their
- > grubby little cotton socks. Oh well, maybe: calling them a Service perhaps.
- > Over the last month all they have done for me is to switch other people's
- > equipment off while I was using it, at next to no notice and at various
- > unadvertised random times guaranteed to maximise my irritation. (Who me?
- > Too much caffeine? I beg to differ in the strongest possible terms!) Mind
- > you, perhaps that is what they think it takes to be a real Qumputinsurvitz.
- >
- > The one thing that /can/ be said for OUCS is that it was probably the original
- > for the Man From U.N.C.L.E.: you might think those are innocent enough looking
- > Georgian houses, but go through the hallway and in through that even more
- > innocent looking little door in the back and lo and behold, what do you find?
- > Rooms full of antiquated '60s equipment, just like the U.N.C.L.E. bunkers.
- > (
- > ) Tom Weston thchemb4@black.oxford.ac.uk
- > (
- > Oh.
- > A bloody alchemist. And a theoretical one at that.
- > Probably does not even make his own explosives.
- > I pray you, kindly depart this froup and this life.
- > ___
- > I wonder why all my correspondence with the (Acting) Director of OUCS is
- > conducted in a pair of mutually unintelligible languages with ostensibly
- > polite but clipped formality?
-
- Yet another casualty of the seduction of a second bowl of All Bran for
- breakfast.
-
- Jason
-