* [9fans] Manfred Becker ( Inheritance Claim) Urgent Business [PMX:##]
@ 2003-06-23 5:00 Andrew Simmons
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From: Andrew Simmons @ 2003-06-23 5:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> stuck in the hell of punch-cards
You had a card punch? Luxury. We had to make our own cards out of cornflake
packets.
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* Re: [9fans] Manfred Becker ( Inheritance Claim) Urgent Business [PMX:##]
2003-06-23 1:23 ` ron minnich
@ 2003-06-23 1:32 ` George Michaelson
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From: George Michaelson @ 2003-06-23 1:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans; +Cc: rminnich
A significant amount of the latest Harry Potter travesty appears to be SET IN
CAPS. I believe the author wants to highlight the eponymous heroes inner angst
at the onset of puberty.
I don't recall puberty making me hit the caps-lock key every time I spoke, but
then mine was a stunted childhood, stuck in the hell of punch-cards. Perhaps if
I'd attended a multi-sex school instead of a no-sex one, I too could have
shouted in Bodoni Bold.
Apparently, this is a long-standing typographic tradition. We can't blame either
BIFF or the spammers for this one.
-George
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:23:24 -0600 (MDT) ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> This is clearly a fake. You can tell since IT'S NOT IN ALL CAPS.
>
> ron
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* Re: [9fans] Manfred Becker ( Inheritance Claim) Urgent Business [PMX:##]
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@ 2003-06-23 1:23 ` ron minnich
2003-06-23 1:32 ` George Michaelson
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From: ron minnich @ 2003-06-23 1:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
This is clearly a fake. You can tell since IT'S NOT IN ALL CAPS.
ron
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