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Grex > Enigma > #233: I always wondered about that... | |
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carl
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I always wondered about that...
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Dec 4 15:28 UTC 1994 |
"/home/carl/.cfdir/cf.buffer" 4 lines, 88 characters
Nasty return from editor: 1
Ok to enter this response? y
Respond of pass? !eddecode 1
eddecode: 1
Use of editor for frivolous or nonessential reasons--especially
responses to items in Enigma.
Respond or pass? e
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remmers
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response 1 of 36:
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Dec 4 22:48 UTC 1994 |
Most people think that running an editor like "pico" or "vi" on Grex
simply runs a piece of software that lets you create and revise text.
This used to be the case, but not any more. This is the age of the
internet, and nowadays running an editor telnets to an editing shop
near Buffalo, NY (although the physical location is not important)
and passes your text to a human editor who makes value judgements.
If the person doesn't like it, you get a "nasty return".
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lee
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response 2 of 36:
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May 22 19:37 UTC 1997 |
emacs
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remmers
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response 3 of 36:
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May 23 10:34 UTC 1997 |
Well, emacs sends it to MIT, where Richard Stallman himself
checks it out.
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lee
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response 4 of 36:
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May 23 22:36 UTC 1997 |
<lee wonders wonder where the heck her emacs reference card disappeared
to>
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remmers
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response 5 of 36:
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May 24 01:18 UTC 1997 |
It wouldn't be the one that's on my desk, perchance?
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lee
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response 6 of 36:
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May 24 19:26 UTC 1997 |
I don't know. Did you take it by accident?
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i
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response 7 of 36:
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Apr 11 01:08 UTC 1998 |
ed
bob
john
david
ronald
barbara
clarence
vincent
emilie
sally
jane
sue
me
!
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snowth
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response 8 of 36:
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Apr 11 02:12 UTC 1998 |
e
g
g
p
l
a
n
t
s
w
o
r
k
f
o
r
m
e
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orinoco
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response 9 of 36:
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Apr 11 04:29 UTC 1998 |
Hooked on phonics works for eggplo...egpla....ig...eggpp...whatever.
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i
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response 10 of 36:
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Apr 11 22:09 UTC 1998 |
Yes, but will it educate the eggplants to sing in tune with the tulips?
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snowth
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response 11 of 36:
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Apr 12 17:07 UTC 1998 |
No, for that you have to sign up for their additional course, hooked on
harmony. For an additional cost, of course.
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lee
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response 12 of 36:
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Apr 15 18:13 UTC 1998 |
I thought only potatoes sang
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i
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response 13 of 36:
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Apr 16 03:01 UTC 1998 |
*Really* big potatoes do the Monster Mash. But all potatoes have rather
tubercular voices, so they aren't really popular singing.
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lee
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response 14 of 36:
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Apr 18 02:48 UTC 1998 |
he did the mash, he did the monster mash! the monster mash!
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i
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response 15 of 36:
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Apr 19 17:27 UTC 1998 |
<hundreds of beady little potato eyes cross & uncross to the beat...>
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lee
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response 16 of 36:
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Apr 21 02:12 UTC 1998 |
Ooh...potatoes...
<lee looks for sour cream>
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snowth
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response 17 of 36:
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Apr 22 02:01 UTC 1998 |
Mashed potato or-... <never mind. I'll be quiet now.>
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i
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response 18 of 36:
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Apr 22 22:37 UTC 1998 |
In the darkness of a still spring night, premonitions of some nameless
evil seem to stir in the air. In a dark corner, the smell of potatoes
becomes almost overpowering. Long, flexible sprouts grow from shriveling
bodies at an unnatural speed. A faint rustling is heard as the potatoes
drag themselves out of the tub and begin to crawl toward the bedroom.
Flesh and blood cooked potatoes alive and ate them at dinner that evening.
Now the fortunes will be reversed, and the potatoes will dine on raw
flesh and blood! A strange, stuptifying sleepy smell of potatoes steals
into the humans's dreams as the wirey tendrils wrap tightly around their
helpless bodies, binding them fast for the horror to come.....
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orinoco
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response 19 of 36:
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Apr 23 17:51 UTC 1998 |
....TATER TOTS! AIE! RUN!
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lee
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response 20 of 36:
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Apr 24 23:02 UTC 1998 |
tater tots are tasty
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orinoco
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response 21 of 36:
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Apr 27 02:05 UTC 1998 |
Yes, but they are still a source of Insidious Evil
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lee
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response 22 of 36:
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Apr 28 01:28 UTC 1998 |
Evil is good, baby, down with government!
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i
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response 23 of 36:
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Apr 30 01:49 UTC 1998 |
Up with the sun, gone with the wind......
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lee
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response 24 of 36:
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Apr 30 02:37 UTC 1998 |
Rhett?
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