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Re: Some new updates for you... Microsoft profit up 11 percent

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From: Diogenes
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:33
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Edwin wrote:
> "Judas" <judas.iscariot@jerusalem.il> wrote in message
> news:<51rv42-4c6.nsi$h1t@spankmonkey.net>...
>> Edwin wrote:
>>> "Queef" <pfffft@queef.com> wrote in message
>>> news:<Ad1fd.8065$ta5.6470@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
>>>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002069543_microsoft22.html
>>>>
>>>>  Microsoft profit up 11 percent
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft beat its forecast and analyst expectations with a profit
>>>> of $2.9 billion,
>>>> up 11 percent from the previous year. Sales in the quarter, the
>>>> first in the company's fiscal year, reached $9.19 billion, up 12
>>>> percent.
>>>
>>> P.T. Barnum has been proven correct yet again...  ;-)
>>
>> Am I to assume you use linux?
>
> That would be a correct assumption.   My current distro is Slackware.
>
>> It was David Hannum.
>
> I thought it was P.T. Barnum who said "there's a sucker born every
> minute."

David Hannum said it. History falsly credited it to Barnum.
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