Subject: Re: old companies are cool
To: None <wonko@tmok.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/23/2001 13:50:54
On January 23, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > > i am an employee of Mack Trucks, Inc.  once again, the 100 year old companies
> > > pull through for those of us without the common sense to just buy a PeeCee, 
> > > install windows, reboot, reboot, reboot, and get on with our lives.
> 
> this is exactly as it should be.
> 
> >   ...I think you mean WITH the common sense NOT to just buy a
> > PeeCee.
> 
> this is what i meant, but i was saying it in something that is called, uhm,
> crap, i don't think irony is exactly the word i'm looking for, hmmmm, almost
> like juxtaposition, only from a farther distance?  hmmmmm.
> 
> when you make a point of saying something by saying the oposite, my mom calls
> it being a smartass, and that's probably the closest i'm gonna get to 
> explaining it.

  Ahh, got it...I haven't slept much lately...

   -Dave McGuire