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Re: Looking For Driven Individuals

#243744
From: Atob
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:28
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Some humanoid named Jelaby strolled in like they owned alt.games.lucas-
arts.monkey-island and said...
> Aaron Davies <aa...@avalon.eyep.net> wrote in message
> news:1elxxc0.16p8iei6s7o3kN%aaron@avalon.eyep.net...
> > Forrest Cameranesi <for...@bungie.org> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <3a3ff823...@news.hetnet.nl>, pixel#...@aglami.com
> > > (Pixel  "#~) wrote:
> > >
> > > > >>>I am confuzzelled! So are you talking about pine the wood or the
> unix
> > > > >>>mail-reader?
> > > > >>Yes...
> > > > >Damned perfect logic.
> > > > >I do that all the time.:)
> > > >
> > > > It's fun, isn't it?
> > >
> > > I've always wondered, what is the proper phrasing of that question? That
> > > is, asking which of the two it is? I don't think "xor" is in the English
> > > vocabulary....
> >
> > Even if it were, it wouldn't help. Unless you were talking about both at
> > the same time, which doesn't seem very likely, the answer would still be
> > "yes".
> 
> Although I was going to try to phrase this question with "nand" and "and" I
> realised that
> "Which pine are you talking about, pine the wood or pine the unix
> mail-reader?" would do it :)
> "Which of pine the wood and pine the unix mail-reader are you talking
> about?" would also.
> 
> Um also
> "So are you talking about pine the wood or the unix mail-reader? Don't
> answer with 'yes', b1tch; choose one!"
> might get your point across, but may lead to some undue tension :-D

Man this is a geeky thread.

-- 
Atob

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Conversations

"What a strange world we live in, and I'm all for making it stranger."

Religious wars are just arguments over whose invisible friend is real.

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Subject: Re: Looking For Driven Individuals
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