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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Subject: Re: rec.audio.high-end
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Date: 10 Apr 90 13:07:54 GMT
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In article <9004071622.AA08851@crash.cts.com-> bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
->Moderator of rec.audio.high-end:
->
->WHY did you allow the posting of that crap article from David Ornitz
->regarding the Armor-all research?  I was taken in completely, wasted
->considerable time reading and rereading, and replying to it, and
->wasted a phone call to the east coast.

->
->[I don't know who David Ornitz is; I've had some correspondance with Barry
->Ornitz, and have sent a message to him asking whatinthehell is going on.
->More later. -tjk]
->
->The clues were *very* subtle (too much so), and the date on the
->article WAS NOT APRIL 1!
->
->[Hey, I missed it to. It's a rather well-known fact that "gullible" is my
->middle name. -tjk]

The first paragraph, on the April 6 article said " the article was posted
internally last weekend."

And I at first thought it was an April Fool's joke, and then I too believed
it. But then I laughed out loud when I came to line 360.

L-monomethyl, lirpanoic butryate (sic).
              ^^^^^^

If the name I. Lirpa or Eno Lirpa didn't leap out at you then, you haven't
been reading the April editions of many mags.

I thought it was wonderfully done.

->
->When I spoke to him on the phone, David's comment (with a big grin on
->his face) was that it was a 'tradition' in rec.audio.  IT WAS NOT
->POSTED TO REC.AUDIO!
->

And it was signed by Barry, not David - and posted by nobody@Kodak.com

->Lest you think this is just sour grapes, it's not.  I like a good joke
->as much as the next guy.  But this Armor-all posting was a bad joke,
->poorly executed as a joke, and approaching malicious in nature.  It
->wasted a lot of bandwidth in a group whose moderator should have known
->better than to post it.
->
->[I agree, it's a waste. It was a poor joke, if joke is what it was. -tjk]
->
->I believe the net is owed an apology by both you and David Ornitz.
->
->[I'm sorry I'm a bonehead. I'm sorry you can't take a joke. I'm sorry I ever
->got myself into this mess. Tell you one thing though... We'll be going back
->to a digest format, so I can take my time and exercise a little more
->control. If I ever get some time (fat chance), you'll see some stringent
->guidelines posted which will be applied to all the incoming postings.
->
->Please send me your comments, to "tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu"    -tjk]
->
->--Bill Blue

Aw c'mon guys. It WAS funny.  And this posting makes it even funnier.  

[Thanks, Bill. Enough of the joke, guys. Let's talk about some audio.
Further postings on this subject rejected. -tjk]
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