Jack Peacock wrote:
>
> From: Max Eskin [mailto:maxeskin_at_hotmail.com]
> I'm sorry if am a little slow, but why is that a curse?
> >
> >Remember the old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times".
> >--
> When you are sitting on the customer's computer room floor at 3am, and
> the paychecks are distributed at 7am, to the 300 angry miners who
> dynamited cars during the last strike, and that new "interesting"
> technology isn't working, then you will understand why it is a curse.
Yup, that's it. Since the software was just "upgraded" (such an
innocent-sounding word!).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 21:06:29 BST