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6. Not to mention the puns and denials of reality in the programs....

Fri Sep 26, 2014, 04:20 PM

Sep 2014

A good example is the Microsoft Windows emulator called WINE which stands for: Wine Is Not an Emulator when it IS.

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I would sneak Douglas Adams into my papers Warpy Sep 2014 #2

There's an economics paper here to be written on Adams' Shoe Event Horizon: muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #8

Love this! who says scientists don't have a sense of humor! LOL! Left coast liberal Sep 2014 #3

It's not Dylan, but dickthegrouch Sep 2014 #4

Not to mention the puns and denials of reality in the programs.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #6

Hilarious! tazkcmo Sep 2014 #5

In the 1980s, I was writing a manual for a computer text editor Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2014 #9