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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Russell wrote:

> On Sep 18, 8:15 am, Straydog wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Russell wrote:
>>> On Sep 17, 1:28 pm, Straydog wrote:
>>>> (yeah, I know this is over the "vomit" threshold)
>>
>>>> She's suing Halmark Cards (I think) for using a phrase ("That's Hot") that
>>>> her lawyer says she patented, or something.
>>
>>>> Really heavy duty brains at work, no?
>>
>>> I guess we meteorologists are in trouble. From now on we
>>> can't say, "The high was 97 today. That's hot!"
>>
>> Or, guys like myself, building electronic things, and soldering wires to
>> terminals, and not waiting long enough for the parts to cool off, and
>> touching it too soon, burning the fingers and saying "[expletives
>> deleted], that's hot!"
>>
>
> Reminds me of "Dilbert" a day or two ago. Dogbert
> is the new VP of Marketing and wants to turn bad
> things about the product into sales points. When
> Alice says the product tends to overheat, Dogbert
> says, "Hottest product on the market!"

Yeah, I've seen those, too.

As in Microsoft "undocumented features" and "general protection fault"..as
in protection from what? When it is just a pure crash.

> Cheers,
> Russell
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