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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 20:01:53 IST
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- From: Edward Yadzinski <museyadz@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
- Subject: snafu apercu
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- RE the following:
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- ** I thought I would work at home tonight using NB4 Lingua; I left
- ** documentation at school. While "playing around" I tried a different symbol
- ** set (ASCII italics). It was nice but I then lost Lingua; so I merely entered
- ** SET again and chose another symbol set (LINGUA). Simple? Nope. It looks like
- ** I now have to reinstall LINGUA. I can't load any LINGUA sets; it forces me
- ** to the reinstall menu. I volunteer myself as the Bureau of Standards FOOL
- ** standard; I will be kept in Washington in a glass case; when software
- ** companies want to claim something is fool-proof, they have to break the*
- ** glass and bring me out to the keyboard for an hour!
- ** Michael Dick
- ** DICK@SIENA
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- Regretfully, I must take strong exception to the claim of Monsieur Michael Dick
- that ** HE ** properly qualifies as the exemplary "FOOL" of NBS (National
- Bureau of Standards).
-
- M. Dick and the Nota Bene net must be advised:
- 1) the very term SNAFU was coined at the moment of my birth;
- 2) my keyboard expectorise is legion; I can get qwerty to lock-up a program
- with untrackable leger demain; no one in the world (see Olympic records,
- Guinness, etc.) has ever before been clocked at this level;
- 3) The Journal of Irreproducible Results has made innumberble overtures
- to engage me as editor-in-chief (or so they keep saying over the phone).
- But I can't get the envelopes open to sign the contract because the letter
- opener I ordered arrived without an operating manual. I am awaiting
- fool documentation.
- 4) With the barest glance from my inspired brow I can cause a full lecture
- hall of 200 bright-eyed freshmen to become comatose in less than a
- minute.
- 5) A psycho-drama film was made in my honor, titled La Chevre (a.k.a. The
- Goat), starring P. Richard & G. Depardieu (see end of film for credits,
- my name appears in HEX code)
- 6) If M. Dick would like to take further issue with my categorical
- pre-eminence as the Digital Prince of Reverse Serendipity, let him choose
- his weapons and seconds wisely. En garde: I have four big toes and a
- talon on each hand, and when I boot a computer it is from all fours !!!
-
- Very truly yours,
- Yegadz\Edyadz, SUNY-Buffalo
-
- P.S. I am wise to e-mail bombs.
-