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From: deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: the wonders of usenet
Message-ID: <1991May4.232812.14287@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 23:28:12 GMT
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In article <52314@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han) writes:
>In article <1991Apr27.165619.1289@alias.com> rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis) writes:
>>Nah.. Byron's still there. [isn't he? :-)]
>Last time I checked he was still there...

  Reminds me of a joke we have at Berkeley Systems which comes from the
"eXyzzyExists" terminology of Gestalt.  We now talk of testing the
"ePatrickExists" bit to see if our co-worker Patrick still exists, or
testing the "eMouseHungry" bit to see if Mouse (another co-worker) is
hungry or not...

-Ben Haller (deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu)
"God I'm sick of trying to think of my 23rd original .sig today" - Me