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To: Janice Shell who wrote (1317)12/9/1997 9:14:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4295
 
Humbly report, Janice, if they want to play hardball, fine!

Twice I noticed their novel way of combining "r" and "n" to form "rn", which they then use instead of an "m", as in the 9th paragraph: "Assernbler":

veronex.com

It is unique, and I intent to steal it, and use it - let's see how they feel when the shoe is on the other foot!

I rernain, hurnbly drearning by the rnail slot of the rnail roorn, near the first arch of the Mala Strana side of Charles Bridge, where they serve great hot rurn, gratis for rne, yours truly,

Svejk
(GL-15 applies: digiserve.com )



To: Janice Shell who wrote (1317)12/9/1997 9:26:00 PM
From: Hoatzin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4295
 
Janice, So glad to see they still print the outstanding "Baker Report" exactly as I rernernber it, with the "Cybase" typo and what is perhaps my all-time favorite investrnent paragraph:

BankBoston, dating from 1784, is the fifteenth largest bank in the U.S. and among the most progressive, involving itself in film production in partnership with Hollywood studios when Joe Kennedy, President Kennedy's libidinous father, was only watching Gloria Swanson movies.

Also still included at the end is the details of how much they paid for this nonsense. Amazing!

They part where I really begin to suspect that this is just a rehash of some cheesy tool from circa 1982 is the persistent use of the phrase "mainframe computers, minicomputers and microcomputers".

Honey, I'm going to iron my flares, put on my platform shoes and boogie down on the microcomputer tonight!

Kevin

FBN - Stayin' Alive



To: Janice Shell who wrote (1317)12/10/1997 12:15:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 4295
 
Janice, just in case you've forgotten how to pump and dump:

businessweek.com

- Jeff
(required reading)