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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead.  News at 11:00.
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Date: 2 Oct 88 00:26:46 GMT
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In article <7437@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) writes:
|What you guys are missing here is this was a party. Jerry was NOT the person
|trying to use the wheel. He was watching a half dozen of his friends, ME
|INCLUDED, use that damn code wheel. In an exciting party setting the delays
|and frustrations using that wheel were unsupportable. *I* had trouble using
|the fool thing in the ambient lighting. It has all the attractiveness of
|three week dead hamsters camped two feet inside your mattress. It just DOES
|NOT work. (And *I* certainly RESENT the implication that because I cannot make
|that stupid wheel work in that party setting I am in some way stupid or dumb or
|otherwise less than competant dammit!

I am happy to report that Jerry is getting in the mail "f18patch", posted
a while ago on usenet, which will allow him to have much better parties
in the future.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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