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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

593.0. "has your data been saved?" by DOODAH::RANDALL (Bonnie Randall Schutzman) Thu Dec 08 1988 01:28

    This ad is from page 76 of the Nov/Dec 88 issue of PC AI magazine,
    delivered via Easynet: 
                                                                        
                  ATTENTION DATA DISTRESSED                             
                                                                        
    Has your data been saved? Are you Bored Again? Good news for the    
    information weary, the data distressed. Have you been D-based and   
    D-filed? Would you like to obtain nerdvana and study heartificial   
    intelligence at the famed campus, BYTE U? Then you should join      
    C.H.I.P., the Church of Heuristic Information Processing, the       
    world's first computer religion, the user-friendly church. Study    
    with St. Silicon, the new Mouseiah. Get your personal copy of the   
    Binary Bible. Act Now. "HALeluya!"                                  
                                                                        
                    ST. $ILICON INC.                                    
              C/O The Winchester Cathoderal                             
                1803 Mission Street #714                                
                  Santa Cruz, CA 95062 


Any converts out there?
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593.1California, here I comeEAGLE1::EGGERSTom, VAX & MIPS architectureThu Dec 08 1988 02:001
    Note that it's HQ'd at the expected place: California.
593.2tally ho!FLASH1::KALLISAnger's no replacement for reason.Thu Dec 08 1988 17:165
    Note also the ad says "has" rather that "have." 
    
    Here it's singularly obvious that "data" should be plural. ;-) ~\~
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
593.3do they accept ca$h ?MELEE::BIELSKIGotta code in m' nodeThu Dec 08 1988 22:007
    
    I say it's one of a litany of West Coast silly con jobs...
    probably just an automated, g*dblessed virus aimed atchoo.
    
    I've been dumped by computers in the sky once 00000010 often.
    
    Stan B.
593.4AMEN!UCOUNT::BAILEYCorporate SleuthFri Dec 09 1988 22:571