OT: Re: Flat Earth?!

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Nov 24 16:17:09 2003

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, right, and next thing you tell is that the world needs
> > > more than 5 computers a year, and 640k is not enough, and what
> > > more blasphemies thre are.
> > Some say there's some really weird sightings of *black*, and even
> > *yellow* colored people out there. Now THAT would be strange, as
> > we're all the same, and all have the same color, right?
> >
> > (no kidding. official viewpoint, around 1500 A.D.)
>
> Not surprising. There are some parts of America where people don't run
> into anyone but white folk until they reach college.

True! A recent article about former Gov. Dean of New Hampshire(?)
said that the state is 97% white. So it is not at all unlikely
that some of those 970 people might well not run into the other 30 :)

                                                - don

> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
>
> [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ]
> [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 24 2003 - 16:17:09 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:36:20 BST