RE: (Friday funnies) Some signature lines you might enjoy...

["Handy, David" <dhandy -at- Informatica -dot- com>]

Thanks Mr Neely - 
 
Back in the 80s I was typing a college dissertation on a new-fangled electric typwriter that stored text line by line before spitting it out onscreen. It was a friend's typerwriter, I was sitting at a dining table in his house. A learned friend of his came by and watched as I typed. "Is your text justified?" he asked me. I proceeded to launch into a nervous defense of my argument. Of course he meant the printout. I'd never heard the term applied to print before. 
 
I wrote my master's thesis with a fountain pen in a series of spiral-bound copybooks. Kinda proud of that. I gave it to a bureau to type up and submitted the finished product without even opening the covers to check there was ink on the pages. Such innocence. How I got into software documentation, I don't know...
 

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Subject: (Friday funnies) Some signature lines you might enjoy...



Some classic, some obscure, many entertaining...I hope you enjoy them!

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Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse.


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