__/ [Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer] on Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:08 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>> You can put a pig in a dress, take it out to dinner, but it's still a pig
>> in a dress, not a girlfriend. Is PageRank merely a pig in a kingdom where
>> 'pigotry' is seen as beautiful (hence bigotry)? Is Google still a naked
>> king < http://tinyurl.com/94cpc >?
>
> Hi Roy, I like your points, but you've got to get your literary
> references sorted out! .-)
>
> The king was not a king, he was an emperor, and he did not try to make
> nakedness a norm, on the contrary he was deceived into accepting and
> wearing a non-existent dress that he was told would be invisible to
> people who were not competent for the job they were fulfilling. So he
> dared not admit that he could not see the non-existent dress and thus
> walked around the capital in his underwear.
>
> As a Dane, I should know :-)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor%27s_New_Clothes_%28fable%29
>
> Mikkel
I somehow knew that I got the literature all disturbingly wrong. It is
always a bad idea to base a point on something you watched on a TV cartoon
or the theatre at the age of 5. I still remember that visually.
Roy
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