Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/08/06:04:20
> At 14:22 2003-03-06, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >
> >>To Whom It May Concern,
> >>
> >>Beware programmers named after Roman gods with eyes (and faces) on
> >>both sides of their head bearing pre-compiled software. He sees the
> >>outside _and_ inside! Get it? He's trying to see inside your system
> >>even while he seems to be looking the other way.
> >>
> >>Pretty slick, Chris!
> >>
Oh *I* get it now! "January", as in the Roman god "Januaricus" (spelled back
then with Roman numerals of course), had two faces. The joke then is that
*Chris* January, descendent of this Roman god of programmers (they used punch
cards back then I believe), is really *duping* the OP into revealing his PC's
innermost secrets by distributing in binary form a... dare I say it... Trojan
<Dr.-Evil-pinky-to-lip-thing>?
> >>(I'm trying to lay off Van Sickle for a while. He's too easy.)
> >
Nah, I have to admit, that one wasn't that easy for me.
> >Care to elaborate a little bit.
>
>
> Any joke that requires elaboration is in fact not a joke at all.
>
> Better luck (to me) next time.
Uh-uh-uh there Rands, always remember the Second Rule Of Hi-Larity: "When you
got lemons, you make lemonade" (q.v. how I salvaged it above with the
Hi-larious rewrite of history). I think I picked that up on APHC in fact...;-)
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
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