From avatar-usenet@arkane.demon.co.uk Sat Feb 12 05:17:56 2000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: How to impress From: Alistair J. R. Young Date: 12 Feb 2000 10:17:56 +0000 On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:56:07 -0600, in message , Jeff Huo praised Shub-Internet thus: > In article , > avatar-usenet@arkane.demon.co.uk says... >> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:31:43 -0600, in message , >> Jeff Huo praised Shub-Internet thus: >> >> > How so? Figuring that my wife would probably be a lot like >> > me...and thus probably has a level of higher education in >> > the same ballpark...I'm sure between the two of us we'll be >> > able to figure out how to have children when we decide to. >> > This isn't exactly rocket science, I imagine, and they _do_ >> > have books to help with this. [1] >> >> I know I'm always telling people to RTFM, but this is ridiculous! > Well, what did you expect? I mean, if I'm using Word, I > should read the Word manual. If I'm installing a co- > processor, I should read the installation manual. If my wife > and I are trying to have a kid, we should read the > fucking...you get the idea. I'd hope that at least the essentials were in your BIOS chip/cell-cluster. > (Thaks a lot, Alistair --now I'm never going to parse that > acronym the same way ever again--I'm forever going to be > seeing a young couple sitting naked together in bed, very > seriously perusing a black leatherbound book, highlighting > relevant passages and taking notes on 3x5 cards. Thanks a > whole lot.) For real fun, imagine being on the other end of the tech support number listed in said manual... "No, sir, you really must use one of the well-known ports to achieve a successful connection. And have you checked that the service you're attempting to access is in the ready state?" "I know 'ouch' isn't the most informative error message in the world, but I'm afraid you have to interpret some things in context. Ah - I suggest we leave advanced procedures until we've tested the basics, ma'am." And for that matter: "Unfortunately, I'm afraid we don't support uninstalls by the end-user. Not your husband either, no. I suggest you call in a consultant..." Alistair damn that .sigmonster! -- Computational Thaumaturge, Deus Machinarum. -- Cerebrate of the Silicon Swarm. e-mail: avatar-sig@arkane.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.arkane.demon.co.uk/ "New for Linux: SoftCondom. Because with a GUI named Explorer, you never know where NT's been." -- Joe Thompson