Or, right. Fedoras. Sorry for my drain bamage.
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:46:23 -0500, Dylan Hardison <dylanwh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:10:02 -0500, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Robin "Roblimo" Miller wrote:
> >
> > > A consortium of American computer companies headed by Guillermo
> > > Ventanas, whose "Puertas" operating system dominates the market place,
> > > decides fictional Miguel shouldn't be allowed to carry out his plans,
> > > since it would ruing the computer hardware and software business as we
> > > know it today.
> >
> > Shouldn't that be "Fenestras", instead of "Puertas"?
> > Is this a case of trying to avoid making it sound too much like
> > something we all know and love?
> >
> > s/ve/athe/
> While I'm familiar with the word Fenestras,
>
> it's basically "William Windows" and his operating system "Gates".
>
>
>
> --
> "Oh, you cannae shove yer granny off a bus, Oh, you cannae shove yer
> granny off a bus,
> you cannae shove your granny, 'cause she's yer mammy's mammy."
>
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