GRC rides again...

Scott Francis darkuncle at darkuncle.net
Mon Jul 2 18:45:36 UTC 2001


On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:30:45PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu exclaimed:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:25:08 PDT, Mike Batchelor <mikebat at tmcs.net>  said:
> 
> > "Decades ago" implies more than one decade ago, which puts this purported
> > statement by Novell sometime prior to 1981.  That was a very prescient

"That is a form of errant pedantry up with which I will not put."
-- Winston Churchill

> Umm.. does "one and a bit more" decades count?  One decade ago was 1991,
> and *two full* decades are required to get to 1981.

:)

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