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RE: "Clueless About Technical Writing? Get Started With These Essential Tips"
Subject:RE: "Clueless About Technical Writing? Get Started With These Essential Tips" From:Mike Donoghue <mikedonoghue -at- Post-N-Track -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:43:22 -0500
Steve Martin is the correct answer!
I also think about the old Monty Python sketch where a group of TV hosts is telling children how to "play the flute, how to split the atom" and so forth.
Instructions going like:
"How to play the flute: you blow in one end and then move your fingers up and down the outside"
Mike
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Subject: RE: "Clueless About Technical Writing? Get Started With These Essential Tips"
Who was the comedian who said: "Here's an easy way to become a millionaire. Would you like to learn it? Good! First, get a million dollars...." Maybe Steve Martin?
Michael L. Wyland
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Wow! Easy-peasy!
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