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