-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 23:02, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said: >> Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not >> indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason >> that it's at the top of the official man page? > > Does a joke become truth just because people don't know it's a joke?
If you don't want perception to become accepted truth, don't make your jokes look so real. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFaSydS9HxQb37XmcRArgBAJkBI/aekF3gQEYaoAkM/xTgT915VgCfcENu kNs0aUYDZHYFTabBZM8kA8I= =jc0i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
