Verily I say unto thee, that Ramon F Herrera spake thusly:
> On Oct 22, 9:40 am, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [H]omer wrote:
>>>> "It is a victory for the consumer", she said.
>>
>> huh? The consumer wasn't fighting Microsoft.
>
> Year 2030. An international team successfully derails an asteroid
> which had planet earth in its crosshairs, making it miss by, well, a
> hair.
>
> After the team leader triumphaly said: "this is a victory for human
> kind" some guy on Usenet claimed:
>
> "huh? Human kind was not fighting that asteroid. You were.".
>
> The NYT reporters, tried to get some background info on the sole
> naysayer, and identified him as DFS the same individual who wrote in
> 1969 to Neil Armstrong:
>
> "huh? Man was not trying to make a small step or a giant leap on the
> moon. You were".
>
> This is the very same guy who, when told that I lost my car keys,
> vehemently replied: "to whom did you lose them?".
Bravo!
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