[TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?

[grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)]

On Friday, 17 July 2015 at  7:04:47 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead
>> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general
>> snarky tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike.  In that
>> case, the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear,
>> Goodrich").
>
> Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke?  If it's American
> humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...

Thanks, Dave.  I didn't want to ask.

Greg
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