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From: David Lukes <pdlukes@luchie-chowchows.demon.co.uk>
To: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:23:36 +0000
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Warning: off topic!

> my old mate dave surfaces.  don't be too 'direct'

I still remember that incident fondly:
if I recall correctly, the line from the customer's management was
"Your consultants are very direct",
after we'd chewed out the customer's hardware vendor's salesman
in front of the customer and described his products
(to his face) with the phrase
"it all looks like bullshit and vapourware",
(That's the royal "we", of course:
 I just sat there and nodded whilst trying to keep a straight face
 as the salesgremin and customer squirmed).

> :-)
Boyd, you're using smileys: what medication are you on?

>  [APT]
Don't swear. I'm feeling delicate at the moment,
(due to a surfeit excesses of Perl and SQL) and my constitution
won't take the shock.

	Dave.

P.S. A certain Mr Penn Jillette is reputed to have once said about smileys:
	"the hateful :) which means 'just kidding' and is used by people
	 who would dot their i's with
	 little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano."

We now return you to the latest episode of:
	"why doesn't plan9 use BIOS drivers?
	 where's the perl/emacs port?
	 I think fsync is really useful, even if I don't really know what it means".
Thank you.