__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 26 May 2006 17:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
> <spam@xxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 26 May 2006 15:09:29 +0100
> <upejk3-aqq.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 26/05/2006 14:17, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> Uncle Vista flip-flops towards the grave
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Kedrosky is not alone in his unhappiness with Ballmer's Microsoft
>>> | and -- as the recent attempts to quell employee discontent and the
>>> | Mini-Microsoft dissenter's bog make clear ? it's not just media
>>> | filler copy.
>>> `----
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31981
>>
>> "Paul Kedrosky?s Infectious Greed bog" ???
>>
>> Is that like a *really* big lavy you go to after you've eaten too much?
>>
>> That's *twice* in that article that he called it a "bog".
>>
>> Ah ... British humour; Yanks need not apply.
>
> I certainly wouldn't want to step into that. :-) At least not
> without hip waders and a flotation device.
>
> (Sounds like Washington, DC, nowadays, only without the law-writing.)
I didn't notice anything weird, but I probably stayed in 'the right part of
town', so to speak. I vividly remember the banners in the tube (subways as
you call them outside London) where an empty greyscale classroom is shown
with some words demoting gun crime. Quite unnerving...
Best wishes,
Roy
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