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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

593.0. "has your data been saved?" by DOODAH::RANDALL (Bonnie Randall Schutzman) Wed Dec 07 1988 22:28

    This ad is from page 76 of the Nov/Dec 88 issue of PC AI magazine,
    delivered via Easynet: 
                                                                        
                  ATTENTION DATA DISTRESSED                             
                                                                        
    Has your data been saved? Are you Bored Again? Good news for the    
    information weary, the data distressed. Have you been D-based and   
    D-filed? Would you like to obtain nerdvana and study heartificial   
    intelligence at the famed campus, BYTE U? Then you should join      
    C.H.I.P., the Church of Heuristic Information Processing, the       
    world's first computer religion, the user-friendly church. Study    
    with St. Silicon, the new Mouseiah. Get your personal copy of the   
    Binary Bible. Act Now. "HALeluya!"                                  
                                                                        
                    ST. $ILICON INC.                                    
              C/O The Winchester Cathoderal                             
                1803 Mission Street #714                                
                  Santa Cruz, CA 95062 


Any converts out there?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
593.1	California, here I come	EAGLE1::EGGERS	Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture	`Wed Dec 07 1988 23:00`	1
	Note that it's HQ'd at the expected place: California.
593.2	tally ho!	FLASH1::KALLIS	Anger's no replacement for reason.	`Thu Dec 08 1988 14:16`	5
	Note also the ad says "has" rather that "have." Here it's singularly obvious that "data" should be plural. ;-) ~\~ Steve Kallis, Jr.
593.3	do they accept ca$h ?	MELEE::BIELSKI	Gotta code in m' node	`Thu Dec 08 1988 19:00`	7
	I say it's one of a litany of West Coast silly con jobs... probably just an automated, g*dblessed virus aimed atchoo. I've been dumped by computers in the sky once 00000010 often. Stan B.
593.4	AMEN!	UCOUNT::BAILEY	Corporate Sleuth	`Fri Dec 09 1988 19:57`	1