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Old May 26th 04, 11:35 PM
Andrew Gray
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On 2004-05-26, Pat Flannery wrote:

I was born 10 years and 1 day after the Pearl Harbor attack.


All the late 1950's-early 1960's newsgroup crew starts doing math on the
back of an envelope; all the late 1960's-early 1970's crew starts doing
math on a electronic calculator; all the late 1970's-early 1980's crew
asks "Pearl what?"


I spent a million pounds of taxpayers money validated by
back-of-the-envelope calculations the other day... fun realisation.

(and all the late-1980s-early-1990s crew asks "Perl attack? Huh?")

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-Andrew Gray