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 W h e r e d i d y o u g u y ' s g e t a l l t h e s e k o o l m u l t i - c o l u m n t e r m i n a l s ? J o h n This post is copyright © 1994 John Perry. Any rebroadcast or republication is prohibited without my expressed written consent. Write to me with your comments or usage requests |