Re: Don't be the last one in!

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Yo Intl. wrote:
>
> Annie:
> At 07:07 PM 6/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >≪ [W]e will begin shipping the Beta release
> >of the SmartWords editor in approximately 2-3 weeks. ≫
> >    --Kenneth B. Frank  Sun, 17 Mar 1999
>
> But you forget, this is the time of semantics. Now that we
> can smoke pot without inhaling, telling untruths without lying,
> having oral-genital contact without having sex, bombing
> little countries to pieces without having a war,

"This is the patent age of new inventions
of killing bodies and of saving souls
all propagated with the best intentions."

--Byron, _Don Juan_

> why should
> we not send a software without sending it.

Why just so! It's far more efficient that way, is it not? You avoid
United Parcel, signing for things, credit cards, etc. etc. Just announce
that the product has been shipped, wash your hands, and walk away.


> I think Frank is
> in illustrous company here. It all depends on the meaning
> of "begin" and of "shipping", you know.
>

Yes, shipping is _such_ a messy process, is it not?


> -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 

> -- "As soon as sufficient forces are available and the weather allows,
> -- the ground installations of the Yugoslav Air Force and the City
> -- of Belgrade will be destroyed from the air by continual day and
> -- night bombardment. When that is completed, we will subdue Yugoslavia."

> -- Adolf Hitler

Hah and hah!

> -- "I didn't inhale." Bill Clinton

days left in 1999:       212
Days in Leap Year 2000:    366
Plus 20 in January       20

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Days left for this sorry
administration:        598


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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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