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From: One Angry User <angry@lusers.org>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: FW: a question about runing DL_Poly
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0608211641550.25747@access1.cims.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060821204008.GA31847@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

On a sunny Monday afternoon, the 21st day of August, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:34:51PM -0400, One Angry User wrote:
> >On a sunny Monday afternoon, the 21st day of August, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> >>On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:43:58PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
> >>>Dave Korn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>*sip*
> >>>
> >>>Time to run an intervention on Dave?
> >>>
> >>>(Yeah, yeah - I know you can stop any time you want..)
> >>
> >>Step 1 of a 13 step program:
> >>
> >>1) Stop reading the Cygwin mailing lists.
> >
> >Heh, then how am I supposed to find out about the other 12 steps?
>
> You have to attend one of the regular CA meetings.

Announced on the Cygwin mailing lists.  How devious...

> Remember reading the Cygwin mailing list is an affliction that you have
> to contend with for the rest of your life.  You need support to...
>
> Excuse me.  Phone ringing...
>
> "Hello?"
>
> ...
>
> "Uh, yes, I am.  But, I was just..."
>
> ...
>
> "I know but I thought that in this case..."
>
> ...
>
> "No, no, you're right.  You're right.  I'm sorry.  I..."
>
> ...
>
> "Right, right.  Can I just say...?"
>
> ...
>
> EOT

Oh...  My...  God!..

So it *is* a government conspiracy after all!

OAU

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-21 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21  9:11 Dave Korn
2006-08-21 19:44 ` Shankar Unni
2006-08-21 20:23   ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-21 20:35     ` One Angry User
2006-08-21 20:40       ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-21 20:43         ` One Angry User [this message]

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