🚀 go-pugleaf

You're absolutely right; the poor bastard had a perfect right to ask for
silly hyphenation stories, and silly hyphenation stories he'll get.

I have one, although it's not strictly a hyphenation story; actually,
it's a word wrap story. In the early days of the TRS-80 Model I (long
may it be remembered, for those not still RUNNING one- no, I haven't
been around QUITE that long, I started with a III) there was a word
processor called Electric Pencil, and it was good, 'cuz there
wasn't nuttin' much else. But Electric Pencil's word wrap algorithm,
while perfectly proficient if the line *contained* a space, didn't work
so well if the line was, say, eighty hyphens (just to make this a hyphen-
ation story (-: ). (Did I just type a meta- hyphen?)

When such a line was entered, the word wrap routine would seek for a space,
fail to find it, and proceed to move the line downward... forever and
ever... or rather until it ran out of RAM. (Boom.)

I reinvented this error when writing my *own* word wrap routine for
the editor of my BBS software, many years ago. (Sigh, the good old days...)

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What do you want from the fish of the fish that you fished when you fished
for the fish that you fished? How many numchuks could Chuck chuck if Chuck
could chuck numchuks? bou...@freezer.it.udel.edu? Or 27.598234821? Or not?