At 9:58 pm -0500 on 1/27/98, Tim May wrote:
Utter bullshit.
Agreed. On several levels of reference, I think...
Extraordinary jokes require extraordinary proof.
Indeed. Hence my use of the word "apocrypha" to introduce it. And the OxDEADBEEF list moderator's use of "ULotD", for, it seems, "Urban Legend of the Day". Note Perry Metzger's follow-on, which I also forwarded at the same time. (You remember Perry, right? He liked to talk about cryptography here once... Yeah, Tim, I know. You *knew* Perry Metzger, and, frankly, Mr. Hettinga, yada, yada, yada) <he said, ducking the usual .50 cal teleoperated sniper fire> Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>