Re: CREATION

Subject:      Re: CREATION
Date:         24 Oct 92 20:33:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct24.034544.10732@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
> Dave Hill (dave@irv.icl.com) wrote:
>: In article <uplink.719713838@cwis>, uplink@cwis.unomaha.edu (John M. Scheibeler) writes:
>: > 
>: > By the way, why don't you learn to use a 80-column
>: > display like people who do have real lives?
>: 
>: Because not everyone on the net, many of whom have
>: complete and fulfilling REAL lives with families and
>: friends, jobs and hobbies and outside interests to
>: numerous to mention, HAS an 80 column display you
>: incredibly pompous asshole.
>: 
>: Hence the use of 60 columns.
>: 
>: But of course the use of said column width simply to
>: be polite to other netters would never occur to a
>: numbskull and so your confusion about:
>: 
>: 	display width <-> real life
>: 
>: is understandable.
>: 
>: I suggest you drive your forehead into your mighty
>: 80 column display until your eyeballs contact the
>: fly-back.
>
>Please!  Will you
>all have some
>consideration for
>those of us with
>20-column
>terminals?
>
>Either that or
>drive your
>foreheads into
>your mighty
>60-column displays
>until your eyeballs
>contact the
>fly-back.
>
>Thank you.
>
>--
>---Alfvaen
>"Does it ever seem
>like the brain
>disorders you have
>just aren't enough
>to keep you amused
>anymore?"
>--Dr. Strychnine
>Current Album--
>Depeche Mode:
>Black Celebration
>Current Read--
>Tom Clancy: The
>Sum of All Fears

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