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Article #620779Re: Nostalgia
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:30
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:30
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-03-02, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > > [27 lines snipped] > >> A certain Gary Larson black and white cartoon was pinned to the wall of >> one software engineer's cubicle at a PPoE: >> >> The scene is inside a launch control center. Through the window in the >> near distance, there is a rocket plowed head first into the ground... >> broken in half and burning. >> >> Inside the launch control center, you see two scientists in white lab >> coats looking over a computer listing on wide, fan-fold paper. One >> scientist says to the other: "I guess you're right. That is an 'l' >> instead of a one!" >> >> :-) > > It's kinda a true story; > > https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=862715 > > Ha! A cross-reference would have shown that. Grep would have been useless. -- Pete
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