Learning to be patient

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3 total messages Started by Ian Staples Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00

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Author: Ian Staples
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00

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Just a little snippet from a colleague on the e-mail 
system this morning. :-)

"God put computers on earth to teach patience to people who
 had not experienced agriculture." - Peter Broaderick

Cheers,  Ian S.

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au

Re: Learning to be patient

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Author: Jim Webster
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00

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Ian Staples wrote in message <86iqoq$i1d$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
>Just a little snippet from a colleague on the e-mail
>system this morning. :-)
>
>"God put computers on earth to teach patience to people who
> had not experienced agriculture." - Peter Broaderick
>
>Cheers,  Ian S.
>
Thanks for that one Ian. Made my day

Jim Webster

We worship the inexorable god known as Dangott.
 Strangers are automatically heretics, and so are fed to the sacred apes.

Re: Learning to be patient

#17

Author: sarah
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00

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Jim Webster <jim@websterpagebank.spam.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Ian Staples wrote in message <86iqoq$i1d$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
> >Just a little snippet from a colleague on the e-mail
> >system this morning. :-)
> >
> >"God put computers on earth to teach patience to people who
> > had not experienced agriculture." - Peter Broaderick
> >
> >Cheers,  Ian S.
> >
> Thanks for that one Ian. Made my day

If you'd posted it on Saturday I'd have been tempted to act despite
'violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' But fortunately
everything is working now. 

(fingers crossed)

sarah

-- 
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'Think of it as evolution in action.'
                     Niven/Pournelle

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