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From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: personal gripe!
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.002849.25662@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 1 Jun 91 00:28:49 GMT
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[#define ASBESTOS_GLOVES  ON]

Okay, I've about had it. My knuckles are turning various hues of red and white,
I am quivering in the anger and frustration of it all. Quick! Where's my Uzi?

"Why dear Mike are you so mad?", you dare ask? I am mad over the years 
and years of UseNet people misspelling the shortened form of "advertisement" 
as in the following example :


>I just saw the latest Hammacher and Schlemmer catalogue (spelling?), and there
>was a full page add near the middle for the new CDTV.
                 ^^^

Okay guys, repeat after me : "a" "d", got that? "A" "D". Hey, I can't 
hear you! It's just TWO letters dammit!!


                    A             DDDD
                   A A            D   D
                   A A            D   D
                  AAAAA           D   D
                  A   A           D   D
                  A   A           DDDD 

Okay, you got it? Good, now let's keep it that way. No more talking about
Commodore's recent "adds" unless you're talking assembly programming.

[#define FLAMMAGE OFF]

Boy, that feels much better...
-- 
"There is no problem to big that can't be solved with high explosives"-Rush

Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike