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Re: Old news that I just now got

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From: Michael A. Schulman
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:00
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Michael Dwyer wrote:

> Michael A. Schulman <mschulman@ms-computing.com> wrote:
>
> : Its called the Pickard Maneuver.  But now that I think about it, The light
>
> Not to be confused with the Picard Maneuver, which is the pulling down
> of one's uniform after rising from the seated position in the captain's
> chair.

There are two Picard maneuvers.  One is the pulling down of the uniform.  And the
other is appearing in 2 places at once in order to blat Ferengi.  The Pickard
Maneuver is when spell check isn't Star Trek compliant.

>
> The cool thing is that they use "Erbium doped pump lasers" to amplify
> the signal.  Now tell me that doesn't sound cool.  :)

I wish I had an Erbium laser pumped up on dope.

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