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From: kosugi@ttrdf.UUCP (Irving C. Moy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin
Message-ID: <336@ttrdf.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 15:57:16 GMT
References: <20312@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <23187@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3170@phri.UUCP>
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Summary: Maybe you had to be there...

In article <3170@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> ph@degas.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Paul Heckbert) writes:
> > > \fINew technology is presented for imaging a restricted class of
> > > dessert foods.\fR
> > 
> > Please get this garbage off the net!  We're carrying on a serious technical
> > discussion here and we don't need this sort of facetious drivel [...]
> 
> 	The more interesting question is do you want to see this sort of
> drivel in a supposedly well-respected academic journal?  If anybody doesn't
> know what I'm talking about, take a peek at the latest CACM.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

	This paper was presented at SIGGRAPH '87 in Anaheim, CA and the
audience (including myself) thought it was rather amusing.  Maybe it's
funnier after you've been sitting in a dark arena for what seems to be eons,
listening to *serious* papers being presented.
	Kinda' breaks up the routine, ya' know. :-):-):-)

	I admit that its publication in CACM may have been a mistake
since the humor is not readily apparent in that context.  Maybe the
editors were trying to "lighten-up" the tone of CACM.  Oh well, at least
they tried.

		Irv Moy
		mail address: UNKNOWN since I am changing employers

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