Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: fmango@xlii.netcom.com (Frank Mango) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:11:14 GMT Organization: little to none Lines: 5 Approved: by the Ministry of Truth Message-ID: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oma-ne4-23.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Apr 12 10:09:17 PM PDT 1998 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 ....you tell people at work that you have a 7-year-old Sun at home, and they correctly parse that as "workstation", not "offspring". -- Frank Mango (change "xlii" to "ix" in my address to reply) ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!europa.clark.net!208.134.241.18!newsfeed.internetmci.com!24.128.1.125!chnws03.mediaone.net!24.131.1.12!denws01.mw.mediaone.net!news.gmi.edu!nova.kettering.edu!lee1089 From: Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:30:54 -0400 Organization: Kettering University (formerly GMI E&MI) - Flint MI Lines: 7 Message-ID: References: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nova.kettering.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frank Mango wrote: > ....you tell people at work that you have a 7-year-old Sun at home, and > they correctly parse that as "workstation", not "offspring". > -- .... you use the word parse when referring to humans. ###### Path: ccw.ch!usenet From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW... Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:29:44 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 12 Message-ID: <353275B8.5237A710@ccw.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) ... you are sking and come to a piste fork and the newbie (to that piste) in front of you (who can't see which side to take) stops dead and your first thought is: Oh, large processor job, exiting real time operation. -- private: Neil.Franklin.remove.this@ccw.ch http://www.ccw.ch/Neil.Franklin/ office: franklin.remove.this@arch.ethz.ch http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/~franklin/ Can a Microsoft allergy be claimed on job health insurence? ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-was.dfn.de!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!Supernews60!supernews.com!Supernews73!supernews.com!Supernews69!not-for-mail From: william.hamblen@nashville.com (William Hamblen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:16:11 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3532bd72.34627879@news.nashville.com> References: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 8208@207.65.180.151 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:30:54 -0400, wrote: >On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frank Mango wrote: > >> ....you tell people at work that you have a 7-year-old Sun at home, and >> they correctly parse that as "workstation", not "offspring". >> -- >.... you use the word parse when referring to humans. I parsed sentences in grammar school well before I was able to lay hands on a computer. Subject, predicate, object and all that. ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.wli.net!Supernews73!supernews.com!Supernews69!not-for-mail From: Boris Gjenero Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:59:38 -0400 Organization: The First Frontier Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3532D11A.76199001@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> References: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <3532bd72.34627879@news.nashville.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 8709@206.48.124.59 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i486) William Hamblen wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:30:54 -0400, wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frank Mango wrote: > > > >> ....you tell people at work that you have a 7-year-old Sun at home, and > >> they correctly parse that as "workstation", not "offspring". > >> -- > >.... you use the word parse when referring to humans. > > I parsed sentences in grammar school well before I was able to lay > hands on a computer. Subject, predicate, object and all that. ...so does this mean YKYBHTLW you think that parse is a "computer" word? :-) -- | Boris Gjenero | | Home page: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bgjenero/ | | "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to | | depend greatly on our own point of view." - Obi-Wan Kenobi, ROTJ | ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!Supernews60!supernews.com!Supernews69!not-for-mail From: genew@vip.net (Gene Wirchenko) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:51:30 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3532b695.6914336@news.vip.net> References: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: genew@vip.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 3620@204.209.212.55 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 fmango@xlii.netcom.com (Frank Mango) wrote: >....you tell people at work that you have a 7-year-old Sun at home, and >they correctly parse that as "workstation", not "offspring". Actually, it's when you think they parsed it correctly. Otherwise, it is they who have been hacking too long. Does writing code for a seven year old Sun at home constitute home schooling? Does your Sun get along with his motherboard? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko C Pronunciation Guide: y=x++; "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon" x=x++; "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon" ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news.cs.utwente.nl!news1.exit109.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!newsfeed.wli.net!newshub.sirius.com!newsfiler.sirius.com!hnsngr From: hnsngr@sirius.com (Ron Hunsinger) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:33:33 -0700 Organization: ErsteSoft Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-asft02--041.sirius.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 In article , wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frank Mango wrote: > > > ....you tell people at work that you have a 7-year-old Sun at home, and > > they correctly parse that as "workstation", not "offspring". > > -- > .... you use the word parse when referring to humans. ... you refer to your company's network as "the people at work". -Ron Hunsinger ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!digex!howland.erols.net!winter.news.erols.com!the-smith-pc From: p.h.s.3@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca (phs3) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:46:19 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <6h13jm$lkg$1@winter.news.erols.com> References: <35319e0c.100817705@nntp.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: akphs.erols.com X-Trace: winter.news.erols.com 892604854 22160 207.96.8.238 (15 Apr 1998 01:47:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@erols.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 In article , wrote: >On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frank Mango wrote: >..... you use the word parse when referring to humans. Vaguely similar thread: looking at telephones, my wife said "I like this one"; I answered "Yes, it has the best form factor", then had to think to realize why she was staring at me... ..phsiii Remove dots from userid portion of From: to reply. root@localhost ###### Path: ccw.ch!elna.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-penn.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!audrey02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: bbreynolds@aol.com (BBReynolds) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW Date: 15 Apr 1998 03:39:49 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1998041503394901.XAA19499@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com References: <3532b695.6914336@news.vip.net> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader In article <3532b695.6914336@news.vip.net>, genew@vip.net (Gene Wirchenko) writes: > Does writing code for a seven year old Sun at home constitute >home schooling? Does your Sun get along with his motherboard? ~~~~~~~ > > Only when using the Scholaris operating system... -- Bruce B. Reynolds, Systems Consultant: Founder of Trailing Edge Technologies, Glenside PA and Niles IL: Sweeping Up Behind Data Processing Dinosaurs